FIG Article of the
Month - November 2021
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FIG e-Working Week 2021 Keynote: A Decade of
FFP-LA: Key Lessons and Future Directions
Emmanuel Nkurunziza, Amy Coughenour Betancourt, Stig Enemark and
Jaap Zevenbergen
Instead of a paper we would like to share with you a series of video
recordings from the keynote sessions of FIG e-Working Week 2021.
In this recording that is offered to you in this "Video of the Month
Series" Jaap Zevenbergen introduces the topic and facilitates the
presentations on fit-for-purpose land administration by Emmanuel
Nkurunziza, Amy Coughenour Betancourt and Stig Enemark.
On Tuesday 22 June 2021, at the FIG Working Week in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, three eminent speakers from the land administration field
came together to take stock of about a decade of FFP-LA, how it
progressed and what challenges lay ahead. The online polls among those
in attendance showed that land professionals are open and supportive of
more FFP ways of working and involvement of the local communities when
collecting land information.
Well organised land administration systems can support countries
achieving sustainable development. They can support responsible land
policies and land management strategies, assist land dispute reduction,
enable fair investment opportunities, support social and spatial
justice, and overall good governance. However, a large number of
people-to-land relationships (read: tenures) are unaccounted for in
formal land administration systems, especially in the developing
countries. This undermines equity, equality and the achievement of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Conventional surveying approaches
face diverse challenges in costs and time needed to comes to scaling and
completion of land administration systems. Fit for Purpose approaches
challenge the earlier paradigm. They seek lower costs, less recording
time, and appropriate spatial data qualities. With FFPLA having now
being on the FIG agenda for almost a decade, this session reflected on
the successes, challenges, and future directions of the FFP-LA approach.
The three speakers with a different background - more governmental,
bridging community participation with geospatial industry and more
academic - joined, but all highlighted issues that need to be addressed
to quickly increase the number of people-to-land relationships that is
accounted for and registered. After several years of discussion, it was
in 2014 with
FIG publication 60 - shared between FIG and the World Bank and with
Honorary President Stig Enemark as first author - that the issue really
came to the table. In the meantime more and more countries are applying
FFP-LA concepts in scaling up towards full land administration coverage.
Several examples were mentioned in the presentations, and even more in
the three episodes of the linked workshop on 24 June 2021 during the
e-Working Week
Objective of the session
In this keynote session the presenters from the land administration
field that showed best practices, showed how the spatial industry has
taken up the concept, and revisited how the concepts have developed and
need further development. All to move FFP-LA along in the future. To
listen to a short overview by Jaap Zevenbergen and longer exposés from
the three presenter go to: https://youtu.be/SCKuvlXKUy4
Jaap Zevenbergen states:
" It was a real pleasure to facilitate this working week keynote
session. Even with the three presenters online on the large screens and
me and Mila Koeva in the studio, it felt like a true plenary. I was glad
to see the openness to change among the participants in the polls, and
it was great to hear Emmanuel Nkurunziza stress that much more work for
land professionals has come in Rwanda after their FFP-LA like approach
in the 2000s."
Watch and be inspired by the keynote session here:
https://youtu.be/SCKuvlXKUy4
Click here,
to check out more papers on best practices and future ideas.
About the keynote speakers
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Emmanuel Nkurunziza,
Director General of the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources
for Development (RCMRD)
Dr. Emmanuel Nkurunziza is the Director General
of Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) – an
intergovernmental organization with 20 contracting Member States in
Eastern and Southern Africa. He took up this position early this year
after an 8 year tenure as the Director General of Rwanda Natural
Resources Authority, a position he held concurrently with that of Chief
Registrar of Land Titles. Dr. Nkurunziza provided the technical and
strategic direction to the development and implementation of Rwanda's
land reform programme that managed to bring all land in the country
under registered title and established a modern land administration
system. The titling programme in Rwanda pioneered full-scale
implementation of what are now generally referred as fit-for-purpose
land administration techniques and approaches.
Dr. Nkurunziza's academic background is in Land
Surveying but holds a masters degree in Urban planning from the
University of Wales (Cardiff) and PhD in Public Policy from the
University of Birmingham (UK). He began his career in the academia,
having worked in various roles as Research Fellow and Lecturer in the
Universities of Makerere (Uganda) and Birmingham (UK). He has undertaken
research and published on urban land delivery systems as well as
livelihoods.
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Stig Enemark,
Honorary FIG President, Senior Consultant and Professor Emeritus
of Land Manaement, Aalborg University Denmark.
Stig Enemark is Honorary President of the International
Federation of Surveyors, FIG (President 2007-2010). He is a
Senior Consultant and Professor Emeritus of Land Management,
Aalborg University, Denmark, where he was Head of School of
Surveying and Planning for 15 years. Before joining the
university, he was a licensed surveyor in private practice. He
is a well-known international expert in the areas of land
administration systems, land management, and spatial planning,
and related issues of education and capacity development. He has
consulted and published widely within these areas. For a
full list of more than 400 publications.
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Amy Coughenour, CEO
of Cadasta Foundation
Amy Coughenour, CEO of Cadasta Foundation,
oversees a global team advancing land and resource rights.
Cadasta has grown its impact to over 5 million people with 77
partners in 36 countries. Amy was the COO of International
Programs at the National Cooperative Business Association-CLUSA,
leading the resilience, food security, and cooperative portfolio
in 20 countries. Amy was Deputy Executive Director, Pan American
Development Foundation; Deputy Director of the Americas Program,
Center for Strategic and International Studies; and has held
senior roles and board positions in various social sector
organizations for three decades. She holds an M.A. in
International Policy Studies from the Middlebury Institute of
International Studies and a B.A. in German from Central College
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Jaap Zevenbergen,
Head of Department of the Urban and Regional Planning and
Geoinformation Management University of Twente ITC Faculty
Jaap Zevenbergen is Head of Department of the Urban and
Regional Planning and Geoinformation Management department of
the Faculty ITC of the University of Twente. He studies and
consults on cadastral and land (information) management issues,
and capacity development on those topics, in a wide range of
countries. He has (co) supervised 25 completed and 12 ongoing
PhD studies, and acted as external examiner to almost 50 others.
He currently is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Land Use
Policy and is (co)author of 100 peer reviewed papers in the
field. He served and serves on several boards within the land
sector, currently of the Land Portal Foundation, and before of
Cadasta Foundation and Global Land Tool Network.
He studied both land surveying and real-estate law in the
Netherlands and combined the two in his PhD study on systems of
land registration, during which he got involved in early
cadastral projects in Eastern Europe, while also consulting on
Dutch projects linked land information management. More recently
the focus has been mainly in Africa, as well as in South-East
Asia and Latin America.
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