Framework for Effective Land Administration - Nine Pathways to Transformational Change
Eva-Maria Unger, Rohan Bennett, CheeHai Teo, Kees de Zeeuw
Kadaster the Netherlands
An important and significant milestone for land administration globally arrived when the United Nations
Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) welcomed and adopted
the Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA) at its 10th session in 2020. FELA makes explicit
the connection between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the domain of land
administration. FELA is a strategic and high-level framework that should enable the professional domain to
communicate its need at all levels. The 5Ps (people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships) of the
sustainable development goals (SDGs) demand effective land administration, realised through integrated
geospatial information, for land policies, tenure, value, use and development. Therefore, FELA puts member
states in the driving seat when it comes to establishing, strengthening, co-ordinating and monitoring their
land administration systems nationally or sub-nationally. It further directly aligns with the overarching
Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF) and implements the IGIF for the land sector. FELA’s
nine strategic pathways, which provide the compass for implementing FELA can be considered by itself or
with others. Each pathway comes with a specific objective, related back to the SDGs and the IGIF, and leads
to the articulation of approaches, methods and tools, specific to land administration and management, that
can be used at national level for the implementation of the FELA. Nevertheless, implementation will vary
from country to country, based on national priorities and context. In this paper, we examine what these
pathways may mean for member states operating within the land administration sectors at various maturing
levels. We consider differences between member state contexts where digital infrastructures are already in
place and those in more developing contexts.
Event: FIG e-Working Week 2021
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