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Lantmäteriet’s cooperation with sister organisations

Institutional cooperationMainly

Capacity Building

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Why international cooperation

• Real property rights and geographic information is essential for sustainable economic and social development

• Issues

• Legislation about real property rights and obligations, processes to adopt real property division to changes in society, information for land governance, business development and for land market

• Including issues about land use, property rights and land values

• Basic and adopted geographic information, Geodesy, topography, cadastral plans and index maps

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Land development chain.

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Why international cooperation

• By being active we are supporting the profession internationally to contribute to sustainable development

• Swedish government want us to be active• Policy for global development• Partner-driven cooperation supported by Sida• Included in the instruction for Lantmäteriet

• Own interest• Development, experiences, staff satisfaction and

recruitment

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History

• 1979 Swedesurvey department with Lantmäteriet• 1993 Swedesurvey AB established as a State

owned company, controlled by the Ministry• 2008 New department within Lantmäteriet for

cooperation between authorities, twinning.

• Turn-over for twinning cooperation, about 60 million SEK per year.

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Cooperation partners

• UN-Habitat (Global Land Tool Network)• FAO• World Bank• FIG (Internationella lantmäterifederationen)• Swedish Housing Financing Authority• Swedish Tax Authority• Sweden Statistics• Cooperation agreements with China, Indonesia,

Vietnam, Serbia and Macedonia

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GEO

ARM

SLO

POL

LITH

ZAMBIA

ICELAND

DENBELARUS

EGYPT

UKRAINE

LAOS

CAMBODIA

VIETNAM

CHINA

MONGOLIA

MOZAMBIQUE

UZBEK

NEPAL

MALAYSIALIBERIA

SOUTHAFRICA

LESOTHO

GHANA ETHIOPIA

ERITREA

TUNISIA

TANZANIA

NAMIBIA MAURITIUS

SWASILAND

UGANDA

BOTSWANA

ZIMBABWE

FINLAND

GREECE

KOS

NORWAY

CROMOLD

NETH

COSTA RICA

GUATEMALA

URUGUAY

KUWEIT

IRANIRAQ

OMAN

SAUDIARABIA

BAH

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

SRILANKA

BHUTAN

ANGOLA

SWEDEN

BOS

LEB

INDONESIA

SINGAPORE

RUSSIA

KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

NIGERIA

Colombia

PERU

BOLIVIA

NICARAGUA

SAN SALVADOR BELIZE

GUYANA

SERBIAMACEDONIA

TAJIKISTANSYRIA

RWANDAKENYA

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Topical issues

• Poverty alleviation trough legal empowerment, access to property with secure tenure

• Land for food security• Land for fast growing urban areas in South• Land Grabbing• Women’s and minority people’s access to property• Real property taxation for income to local

governments• Climate change• Capacity building

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Safeguarding Paper Records

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Aerial photographs efficient for identification of unauthorised structures.

When bringing information from various sources together, defects can be detected.E.g. 40 % of the buildings in the pilot area was not valued.

Cooperation between local and central level is a perquisite for the success of UMLIS.

Accurate information on persons are required for a complete secure system.

Property owners are in general positive to the system. Give them information about how much their community / block is paying in relation to the services they require

EXPERIENCES ACCRA Ghana

Information for municipal rates

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Kibera Nairobi

• Sensitizations

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STRUCTURE NUMBERING• Identification of structures.

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METHODOLOGY

• Structure numbering

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Lusaka Zambia

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Privatisation In Eastern Europe and Asia

• Restitution, Central Europe, Baltic States, • Privatisation of land shares in Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova etc.

• Distribution of land to farmers and other people on the countryside, e.g. Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan

• Vouchers (widely used for privatisation of State property but not for land)

• Limited land use rights but possible to transact and mortgage, Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam

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Georgia

• Considerable privatisation as a mean to support the people to survive big drops in export markets.

• Many donor projects, each with its own philosophy• New amalgamated organisation, National Administration of

Public Registry• Several efforts to increase privatisation, to make land

administration more efficient and develop an national land information system. Succeeded handle corruption and improve efficiency, now leading in World Bank rating Doing Business

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Tajikistan

• Leasehold of land for private use• Merging of organisations, cadastre, right registration,

constructions etc proposed but not implemented• Development of new legislation and valuation methods• Pilot project for improved land info system implemented

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Kyrgyzstan

• GosRegister responsible for registration

• Urban land privatised and to large extent registered

• Rural land privatisation through shares

• Privatisation through application of urban land

• Allocation of rural land started

• Land markets mainly in urban areas

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Privatisation of kolchoz KyrgyzstanPrivatisation of kolchoz Kyrgyzstan

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Balkan

• Croatia• Serbia• Macedonia• Albania• Romania• Kosovo• Slovenia• Greece

• Development of Real Estate Cadastre

• Land Consolidation• Business processes• Geodetic framework• Digital archive• Valuation and mortgage

systems• Land taxation• Management and

organisation

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Vietnam• Ministry of Natural Resources and

Environment, General Department of Land Administration

• Legislation• Land use planning• Cadastral mapping• Land information systems• Land Registration• Land valuation

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Issues

• Revision of land laws• Strengthening occupancy rights• Real property concept• Efficient organisation

• Land use planning• Participatory planning• Strengthen comprehensive planning to guide

sector planning (construction, transport, agriculture, forestry etc)

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• Land registration• More efficient procedures and responsibilities between

different levels of authority• Improved service delivery• First registration and updating, urban and rural land

• Land Information System• Pilot projects of provincial development• Development of national standards

• Land Valuation• Development of market-based land valuation• Clarifying of responsibilities regarding land valuation

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Vietnam

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Indonesisa

• Institutional Partnership for Strengthening Land Administration (IPSLA) 2006-2010

• Capacity building and management development

• Land registration• Land valuation• Legalisation of informal settlement

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EU Twinning Department of Land and Survey, Jordan, Lantmäteriet and GUGiK

• Integration of land and cadastral information

• Data security• Land valuation

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Mongolia

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Strategy for improved LA to alleviate poverty in Africa

• Improve cadastral information in areas with (systematic):

• demands on investments in land development

• areas where functional land markets are developing

• areas affected by migration, especially urban

• Establish countrywide procedures to (sporadic):

• Investments in land development

• Protect interests of existing land use, women, ethnic minorities, migrated people etc.

• Solve conflicts • Promote fair allocation

and access• Improved decision-

making for sustainable land management

• Land taxation

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Institutional issues

• Civil law, land code and real property formation legislation

• Real property definition, land, buildings, facilities, woods etc.

• Development of land information systems, national spatial data infrastructure, geodetic systems

• Organisational development, merging or redesigning of organisations, Natural Resources, BTI, Cartography, Rights Registration

• Management development, financial system, staff engagement, local offices