The Fit for Purpose Land Administration Approach-Connecting People, Processes and Technology in Mozambique

Marisa Balas, João Carrilho and Christiaan Lemmen
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Marisa Balas: Departamento de Ciências Sociais e de Gestão, Universidade Aberta, 1250-100 Lisboa, Portugal
João Carrilho: Departamento de Ciências Sociais e de Gestão, Universidade Aberta, 1250-100 Lisboa, Portugal
Christiaan Lemmen: Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-22

Abstract: Mozambique started a massive land registration program to register five million parcels and delimitate four thousand communities. The results of the first two years of this program illustrated that the conventional methods utilized for the land tenure registration were too expensive and time-consuming and faced several data quality problems. The purpose of this research was to conceptualize, develop and test a country-specific Fit For Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA) approach for Mozambique, denominated as FFPLA-MOZ, intertwining three pillars: people, processes, and technology, to solve the constraints faced in systematic registrations. Such a contextualized approach needed to be: (i) in line with legislation; (ii) appropriate to the circumstances and needs of the systematic registration; (iii) cost-effective; (iv) based on available technology; and (v) fit to establish a sound and sustainable land administration system. By connecting people, processes, and technology, the FFPLA-MOZ approach achieved several benefits, including cost and time reduction, increased community satisfaction, and improved quality of work and data. The FFPLA-MOZ approach also supported a more robust community engagement through a more participatory land registration, denominated community-based crowdsourcing. Initial observations indicated that strong leadership and commitment were of extreme importance to ensure change management, capacity development, and project delivery for the success of these initiatives. The research only focused on the registration of land under good faith and customary occupations, as well as community delimitations. The next stages should focus on other land management activities and integrate other cadastres.

Keywords: fit-for-purpose land administration; land tenure security; community-based crowdsourcing; pro-poor land recordation; innovative technology; SiGIT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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