Social Innovation as a Disruptor of Tenure: Recognising Land Rights of Slum Dwellers in Odisha, India

Leshinsky, Rebecca; Ho, Serene; Choudhury, Partha P.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-52387-9_5

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“…The Act provides the legal framework to grant Land Rights Certificates to urban areas in the whole of the state of Odisha covering all the 116 Urban Local Bodies (i.e., municipal corporations). A key motivation for slum titling was easier transition to livable habitats: secured individual title and clearly delineated boundaries can ease access to better sanitation, credit, healthcare, education and housing services [75].…”

Section: Olrsd and Its Decentralized Implementationmentioning

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Decentralization as a Strategy to Scale Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration: An Indian Perspective on Institutional Challenges

Choudhury²,

Haran³

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Many countries grapple with the intractable problem of formalizing tenure security. The concept of ‘fit-for-purpose land administration’ (FFPLA) offers a way forward by advocating a shift towards a more flexible, pragmatic and inclusive approach for land rights recording. Inherently, the process and outcome of implementing FFPLA will have significant socio-political ramifications but these have not received much attention in the literature; additionally, few papers have considered this in the context of decentralization, an endorsed strategy for implementing FFPLA. This paper contributes to this gap by critically analyzing three land formalization initiatives in India which have employed flexible recording approaches and where decentralization is used to scale implementation. The cases show how quickly decentralization can kickstart implementation at scale via collaborations with local governing bodies and partnerships with non-state actors. An institutionalist approach highlights ensuing political contests between new and traditional land actors that inhibit political authority, and the challenges of coordinating a network of public and private actors without clear formal collaborative governance structures to ensure democratic outcomes. In doing so, we contribute to governance knowledge around FFPLA implementation so that it is ‘fit-for-people’ and better able to support policies and processes to secure land rights at scale.

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Section: Olrsd and Its Decentralized Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%