Tenure security, land registration and customary tenure in a peri-urban Accra community

Barry, Michael; Danso, Ephraim Kwame

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.01.017

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“…Fraud and sharp practice involving elites and officials can be a major influence in some communities and create a climate of fear and conflict (Barry and Danso 2014). Participants had learned through the media and local hearsay about how people had sold a house off-register and then reclaimed it.…”

Section: Projects a And B And Drakenstein-97 Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study of Effective Land Registration Usage in State-Subsidised Housing

Barry

Roux²

2016

SA J of Geomatics

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Project II is the third case study to be reported on land tenure administration in statesubsidised housing projects the Western Cape which indicate that registration is effective in administering ownership. Internationally, many land titling programmes have not produced the benefits envisaged. In a number of South African state-subsidised housing projects a number of houses have changed hands off-register, which creates costly long-term land tenure administration problems. The Project II study examined the strategies that people use to defend their tenure and to effect transactions in land. While there are major problem cases in South Africa, the Project II study, building on two similar case studies, indicates that individual tenure, registered in ownership, can work in pro-poor housing programmes if the right conditions exist. Although there was evidence of off-register transactions in all three case studies, the situation can be improved by hands on management to create and maintain the enabling conditions for registration to be effective rather than major changes in law, policy and land administration practice. Distinctive, new knowledge, emerging from Project II is how an iconic "bad news" event can influence local knowledge and behaviour.

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Section: Projects a And B And Drakenstein-97 Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study of Effective Land Registration Usage in State-Subsidised Housing

Barry

Roux²

2016

SA J of Geomatics

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“…By contrast, many people in peri-urban and rural areas occupy and use land under a system of rights that is conveyed through oral tradition and not documented under the formal cadastre. This means they are not formally recognized as legal holders of rights to this land (Ziqubu, Cousins & Hornby, 2001;Cousins & Hornby, 2006). Instead, indigenous knowledge systems are used to allocate land rights and define property boundaries.…”

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“…Some of the drivers of cadastral development and land administration reform include response to climate change, disaster management, urbanisation, and the need to extend the cadastre to all regions (Burns et al, 2006;Bennett et al, 2010;Hull & Whittal, 2013). It is to the last of these drivers that this paper speaks.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is to the last of these drivers that this paper speaks. Extending the cadastre should be done with cognisance of existing tenure if it is to be effective and sustainable (Burns et al, 2006;Williamson et al, 2010;Fox, 2015).…”

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“…An understanding of existing local norms and practice, which may include intricate social dynamics, could also foster good land governance (see e.g. Barry & Danso, 2014). Consequently the main objective of this research is to describe indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) being used in some tribal areas of South Africa to allocate land rights and define the corresponding physical boundaries of land for occupation and use.…”

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