1. Enrique Pantoja, Victor Endo, Luis Triveño
Contracting Out Services for Systematic Registration: Gaining Productivity and Managing Risks
Enrique Pantoja, Victor Endo, Luis Triveño
“2018 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY”
The World Bank - Washington DC,
March 20, 2018

2. Objective and scope Direct implementation or outsourcing?
limited
capacity
No access
to technology
Systematic
registration
What conditions should be present
for a successful contracting out,
Greg Rosenberg’s slide
The Center for CLT Innovation is a new program of the Land Alliance, in furtherance of our mission to promote the efficient, inclusive, and sustainable use of land and natural resources. The Center will support community-led development on community-owned land by focusing its work in three areas: (1) maintaining and curating materials about the international CLT movement; (2) cataloging and disseminating academic and non-academic studies that examine the formation and performance of CLTs; and (3) fostering new ways conceptualizing, structuring, and applying the CLT model, with a focus in informal settlements and urban agriculture.” The co-directors of the Center are Emmeus Davis and Greg Rosenberg, with Line Algoed serving as research coordinator.
photo:Picture here:from Troy Gardens, a project Greg worked on in Madison, WI
What are the potential risks?
How managing them?
Land Administration projects
In LAC
Review of land administration projects documentation
Interviews to key practitioners,

3. Land Administration and systematic registration
Greg Rosenberg’s slide
The Center for CLT Innovation is a new program of the Land Alliance, in furtherance of our mission to promote the efficient, inclusive, and sustainable use of land and natural resources. The Center will support community-led development on community-owned land by focusing its work in three areas: (1) maintaining and curating materials about the international CLT movement; (2) cataloging and disseminating academic and non-academic studies that examine the formation and performance of CLTs; and (3) fostering new ways conceptualizing, structuring, and applying the CLT model, with a focus in informal settlements and urban agriculture.” The co-directors of the Center are Emmeus Davis and Greg Rosenberg, with Line Algoed serving as research coordinator.
photo:Picture here:from Troy Gardens, a project Greg worked on in Madison, WI
Williamson, et al: 2010
Land tenure is not isolated – need to integrate other land
administration activities

4. Systematic registration – definition
Method of bringing all parcels of land in a defined region into the system
One single process:
Public education
Surveying parcels
Adjudication of titles
Creation of unique parcel number
Issuing titles

5. Systematic Registration
Design and preparation
Communication and engagement
Field work and legal investigation
Public display of results (objections)
Final determination
Systematic Registration
Complexity : series of interdependent activities
Production of aerial / satellite imagery
Identification and delineation of parcel boundaries
Link to national geodetic reference frame
Production of maps of the parcels
Legal framework
Institutional arrangements
Compilation of existing legal data
Compilation of occupation data
Restrictions
Legal analysis
Social awareness
and community participation

6. Arguments in favor of contracting out
Why build “muscle” to be used one time?, better focus on maintenance
Government should focus on strategic functions
Potential cost reduction
Private firms more incentives to reduce costs
Private firms more flexible
Quality ensured by contract
Access to technology / new approaches

7. Cost of contracting out
monitoring
Cost
price
Cost determinants:
Uncertainty
Information asymmetry
Task complexity
Difficulty for specifying terms
Difficulty for monitoring
Over
dependency
Market contestability

8. Weaknesses identified in projects
Legal reforms not stabilized
Institutional Coordination
Weak in house capabilities
Estimation of number of parcels
Operation manuals incomplete
Weak monitoring
Weak contractual remedies
Long re-negotiations
Walk away too expensive

9. Lessons / recommendations
Contracting out is not panacea
Importance of develop / retain in house capabilities
Directly implement where firms cannot
Expertise to define process / products / quality
Outsource
Strong in house capacity
Direct implementation

10. Technical capabilities Administrative requirements
Lessons / recommendations
Technical capabilities
Operational Manuals
- Survey
- Legal
-Social
Tenure diagnostic
# parcels
social determinants
Supervision
(better not outsource control)
Administrative requirements
Contractual
mechanisms
Solve conflicts
Re-negotiate
Walk away
Stability to technical staff

11. Thank you
Let’s Discuss