Module 3
LAPs and Subnational Entities
It corresponds to the level of intervention of subnational entities, i.e. Municipal Districts and Indigenous Communities and Territories (ICT) where LAPs seek to promote multipurpose land administration systems.
Intervention levels
This guide contains 5 modules, which allow users to proceed independently of the tool’s own logic. The modules contain numerous external hyperlinks to access a bank of technical documents of the FAO, World Bank and other additional information sources. They also contain internal hyperlinks for navigating between modules or for easy access to the tool’s glossary.
LAPs should pay particular attention to the following in relation to municipal governments:
- Establishing technical standards and rules in line with coordination mechanisms and information exchange with other areas of municipal management.
- Supporting systems that ensure that local governments can assume responsibility and provide continuity for the maintenance of the cadastral, titling and land registration database.
- Adopting techniques that ensure an IT system capable of establishing links between the municipal cadastre and other land administration institutions.
- Supporting the creation of a multiuse cadastral database (property taxes, territorial planning, development of infrastructure, etc.).
- Ensuring the training and education of staff in the introduction of new technologies.
- Ensuring staff awareness to guarantee fair access to land and to decision-making spaces.
- Ensuring long-term educational opportunities to guarantee that there is a flow of qualified workers to ensure system continuity.
- Ensuring well-organized processes and transparency and accountability mechanisms, since without service standards it is easier to create opportunities for bribery, corruption and favouritism1, and since organizational efforts generally yield better results where transparency and reciprocity exist between the agencies involved2.
- Encouraging the alignment of cadastral and territorial planning actions in the field, as for office work guided by established models.
- technical certification approval for those who generate and enter system information with the aim of implementing a reliable, updated, single national cadastral system.
Notes
1 Burns, T. (2007).
2 AO (2007).
Conceptual framework
Fact Sheets
- Fact sheet 3.1 Categorization of the municipal setting
- Fact sheet 3.2 Diagnosis of the land administration capabilities of municipal governments
- Fact sheet 3.3 Monitoring titling in indigenous communities and territories
- Fact sheet 3.4 Analysis of land tenure governance in indigenous communities and territories
- Fact sheet 3.5 Assessment of the land tenure regime in indigenous territories
External links and bibliography
- Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests
- Land governance assessment framework
- Global land tool network: land administration and information
- Sustainable livelihoods guidance sheets
- Global Land Indicators Initiative (GLII)
- Guía Metodológica: Módulo de Comunicación y Capacitación sobre Tierras Comunales
- Vídeo: Reconocimiento de tierras comunales y gobernanza local en Guatemala
Extra sections
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