Challenges for Land Policy & Administration World Bank 14 February 2008

2. Challenges for Land Policy & Administration World Bank 14 February 2008 Clarissa Augustinus, UN-HABITAT

3. Contents • Kenya As Reminder… • GLTN: Platform for New Knowledge • Key Conference Issues: • Land Reform • Evaluation for Learning • Land Governance • Post-Disaster & Post-Conflict • Continuum of Land Rights • 4. Partnership

4. GLTN Vision • The vision: • To provide appropriate land tools at global scale to implement pro-poor land policies. • Creating a comprehensive global focus to move the land agenda forward • Develop pro poor gendered land tools • Unblock existing initiatives • Research, document and disseminate • Strengthen global comprehensiveness (Paris Declaration) • Improve security of tenure for the poor • MDG goals: indicators/benchmarks

5. GLTN partners • CASLE • COHRE • FAO • FIG • Habitat International Coalition (HIC) • Huairou Commission • IFAD • IHS • IIED • ILC • International Union of Land Value Taxation • ITC • Lincoln Institute • MCC • Norway • RDI • SDI • Sida • Swedish NLS • Terra Institute • The Inter-American Alliance for Real Property Rights • UNECA • UN-HABITAT • UEL • World Bank

6. CASLE Africa Land registrars workshop, • COHRE Grassroots mechanism, eviction guidelines • FAO Land governance, pro poor compensation & land acquisition -WB/FIG • FIG STDM, Intermediate tenure and access to finance • Huairou Commission Gender mechanism, gender workshop • IHS Land administration training • IULVT Land Value Taxation, online training • ITC Transparency in land administration course - Africa • Lincoln Institute Land law and policy training • Norway Funding, Publication • SDI Enumerations, Global, ISK, Kisumu, Kenya • Sida Funding, GLTN Governance & Management • UNECA Indicators for land policy implementation, Africa – AU/AFD • UEL Islamic land tools, EGM, training packages • World Bank Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, India –continuum of land rights, regulatory frameworks, land workshop • Examples of GLTN Partner Activities

7. 1. Land rights, records and registration 1a. Enumerations for tenure security 1b. Continuum of land rights 1c. Deeds or titles 1d. Socially appropriate adjudication 1e. Statutory and customary 1f. Co-management approaches 1g. Land record management for transactability 1h. Family and group rights 2. Land use planning 2a. Citywide slum upgrading 2b. Citywide spatial planning 2c. Regional land use planning 2d. Land readjustment (slum upgrading and/or post crisis) 3. Land Management, Administration and Information 3a. Spatial units 3b. Modernising of land agencies budget approach 4 Land law and enforcement 4a. Regulatory framework for private sector 4b. Legal allocation of the assets of a deceased person (Estates administration, HIV/AIDS areas) 4c. Expropriation, eviction and compensation 5. Land Value Capture 5a. Land tax for financial and land management • 18 GLTN land tools, 5 themes

8. The Global Land Tool Network identifies • eight cross cutting issues on land tool development: • Land governance • Tenure security indicators for the MDGs • Capacity building mechanism • Islamic mechanism • Post conflict/natural disaster • Environment mechanism • Gender mechanism • Grassroots mechanism

10. Key Conference Issues • Land Reform and Poverty • Land Reform is a priority GLTN Partners • Land reform requires pro-poor, large scale land tools • Conference co-organised with World Bank in 2008? • Evaluation for Learning • Limited knowledge and models for up-scaling and national roll-out • Preponderance of vested interests • Moving to sustainability through better evaluation GLOBAL LAND TOOL NETWORK

11. Key Conference Issues • Land Governance • Engaging on land governance critical for implementation • FAO and UN-HABITAT developing land governance policy paper • Linking a political economy approach to land management and land administration interventions • Piloting analytical tool in select countries? • Post-Conflict & Post Disaster Land • Increased awareness, but limited knowledge among humanitarians • Development of UN system-wide guidelines for post-conflict/disaster • Post-Disaster Land Workshop in Geneva: 21-23 April 2008 GLOBAL LAND TOOL NETWORK

12. Key Conference Issues

13. Concluding Remarks • Conference contributes to new knowledge • GLTN Partners focus on creating a comprehensive global approach to move the land agenda forward • World Urban Forum IV – New Date: 3-7 Nov 2008

14. Thank you for your attention! GLTN Secretariat UN-HABITAT, P.O Box 30030, Nairobi 00100, Kenya Telephone: +254 20 762 3116, Fax: +254 20 762 4256 E-mail: gltn@unhabitat.org GLOBAL LAND TOOL NETWORK

15. GLTN Partners • The Partners: a) Agree on the values of the GLTN b) Promote land tool development at scale/ upscaleable c) Provide financial and/ or knowledge input d) Represent regional/international institutions, organisations or networks e) Non commercial • The Global Land Tool Network core values: • Pro-poor, Governance, Equity, Subsidiarity, Affordability, • Systematic large scale approach, Gender sensitiveness