1. Kees de Zeeuw Christiaan Lemmen Kadaster International The Netherlands
Boosting the registration of land rights in step with the Sustainable Development Goals
Kees de Zeeuw
Christiaan Lemmen
Kadaster International
The Netherlands

2. Overview Land administration and SDG’s
Hard and soft components to be developed
Action is here
Global initiatives
National governments act
Data, standards and infrastructure?
Conclusions
Overview

3. “Land administration is the process of
Data acquisition
Distribution
“Land administration is the process of
determining, recording and disseminating of information about ownership, value and use of land when implementing land management policies”.
Processing
Rights
Purposes
Assessment
Inventory
Land
Source: LADM, ISO 19152
Land administration definition

4. Data acquisition
cm - dm - m

5. Registration
Paper - Digital

6. Need for land administration: 2030
Source: / Kadaster
SDG’s and Land Administration

7. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.1. By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day.
1.4. By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance.
End poverty

8. Global Outputs and Reporting National Data Integration Data Inputs17
Goals
Global
Outputs and
Reporting
169
Targets
230
Global Indicators
Official Aggregation and Integration into
Indicator Framework by National Statistical Offices.
Captures data integrity and validation.
National
Data
Integration
SDG metrics for measuring and monitoring progress.
Data compiled and disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location, etc.
National
Information
Systems
Data
Inputs
National Statistics,
Accounts, Administrative
Registers, Demographics
Spatial Data
Infrastructure
Other Sources
of Data,
incl. Big Data
Earth
Observations
and Monitoring
Geodetic positioning
Elevation
Topography
Land use & cover
Transport/Infrastruct.
Cadastre/Parcels
Water & Oceans
Cities & Settlements
Administrative Bdys.
Imagery
Water/Ocean
Land use/cover
In situ monitoring
Air/Pollution
Ecosystems
Forest/Agriculture
Climate
Population
Demographics
Poverty
Trade/Business
Environment
Labour/Economics
Agriculture
Disability/Gender
Civil Registration & Vital Stats.
Mobile phone
Social media
Sensors
Automated devices
Satellite imagery
VGI
Crowd sourcing ??
Fundamental
baseline data
and new
data sources
Local to national social, economic and environmental conditions and circumstances
Source: UN GGIM – Greg Scott
Geospatial Information Management and SDG’s

9. Information Infrastructures
Access Networks
(Technology)
People
Policy
Data
Standards
SDI components

10. Land rights for all People & policy Data, knowledge & experience
Standards (ISO, OGC, LADM/STDM)
Methods & guidelines (Fit for Purpose LA, VGGT)
Tools (UN, Open Source, commercial)
Infrastructure (Governments, communities)
Cases and best practices
Indicators, targets, global insight
Partnership, awareness, leadership & finance
People & policy
Hard and soft components

11. Boosting initiatives: Examples
SDG’s
International examples
UN GGIM
OGC
FIG
National example
The Netherlands
Examples: International/national

12. Boosting initiatives: UN
UN GGIM: EG-LAM

13. Boosting initiatives: OGC
Industry, Government, International organisations and Academia
Domain Working Group on Land Administration
Charter
LADM (ISO 19152) revision with ISO TC211
White paper
OGC

14. Boosting initiatives: FIG
Fit for Purpose Land Administration
Land Consolidation
Women’s rights to land
FIG initiatives

15. Boosting initiatives: Dutch Government
Fit for Purpose Land Administration for National Development (LAND)
Multi Stakeholder Dialogue on Land Governance
GLTN, LANDac, Landportal, ….
Dutch government

16. Data, standards and Infrastructure?
Land rights for all with present state of play ≠ 2030
Innovation is needed
Technology of tomorrow = 2030
class Classes of LADM
LA_SpatialUnit
LA_Party
LA_RRR
LA_BAUnit
LA_GroupParty
LA_PartyMember
LA_Right
LA_Restriction
LA_Responsibility
LA_Mortgage
LA_AdministrativeSource
LA_SpatialUnitGroup
LA_LegalSpaceBuildingUnit
LA_LegalSpaceNetwork
LA_Level
LA_Source
LA_BoundaryFaceString
LA_BoundaryFace
LA_Point
LA_SpatialSource
Hard components

17. Conclusions ‘Land rights for all’ can be boosted
Boosting people and policy is needed for success
Data, standards and infrastructure need innovation
Good examples exist
UN GGIM, OGC, FIG and many others
International policy Netherlands
Conclusions