Expert Group Meeting on
Secure Land Tenure:

'New legal frameworks and tools'

organised by:

  • FIG Commission 7
  • UN-HABITAT
  • The Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK)
  • The Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE)

supported by:

  • Austrian Development Agency (ADA), Austria
  • Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency, The Netherlands
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany


UN-Gigiri in Nairobi, Kenya
Conference Room 3
10 - 12 November 2004

Programme and proceedings

This programme as a .pdf-file

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

19:00-21:00 Welcome reception and registration at the Panafric Hotel
Offered by the Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency, the Netherlands
Thursday, November 11, 2004
07:30

07:30

Departure bus from the Panafric Hotel to UN-Gigiri (guests of Panafric)

Departure bus from the office of the ISK on Kimathi Street to UN-Gigiri (local participants)

08:30-09:00 Registration at UN-Gigiri
09:00-09:30 Opening and Welcome
Chair: András Osskó
  • Ibrahim Njiru Mwathane, President of ISK, Kenya
  • Cyprian Kirera Riungu, CASLE, Kenya
  • Maria-Waltraud Rabitsch, Austrian Development Agency (ADA), Austria
  • Paul van der Molen, Chair FIG Commission 7, The Netherlands
  • Daniel Biau, Deputy Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Kenya
  • Amos Kimunya, Minister for Lands and Settlements, Kenya

Group photograph

09:30-11:00 Session 1: Overview of key issues
Chair: Paul van der Molen
Rapporteur: Emmanuel Offei Akrofi

Alain Durand Lasserve (France)
Can neo-customary land delivery systems provide land for the low-incomes in Sub-Saharan African cities
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Clarissa Augustinus (Kenya)
An overview of land tools in Sub-Saharan Africa: past, present and future

Lillian Njenga (Kenya)
Towards individual statutory proprietorship from communal ownership

Forum discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 2: Innovative approaches (land tenure)
Chair: András Osskó
Rapporteur: Jennifer Whittal

Rosalie Kingwill (South Africa)
Seeking Equilibrium: Land Rights Adjudication in off-register, non-formal, or formalising contexts in South Africa
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Søren Fauerholm Christensen (Denmark)
The Flexible Land Tenure System – The Namibian solution bringing the informal settlers under the register
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Carole Rakodi (United Kingdom)
Land for housing in African cities: are informal delivery systems institutionally robust and pro-poor?
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Forum discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break at the Intercontinental Restaurant
14:00-15:30 Session 3: Innovative approaches (land administration)
Chair: Christiaan Lemmen
Rapporteur: Tom Konyimbih

Solomon Abebe-Haile (Ethiopia)
A reality check on the quest for tenure security and land administration in Ethiopia
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Richard Oput (Uganda)
Piloting of systematic adjudication, demarcation and registration for delivery of land administration services in Uganda
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Cyprian Selebalo (Lesotho)
Creation of land records prior to formal registration in Lesotho
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Jude Wallace (and Ian Williamson) (Australia)
Using remedies and relativities to regularise access to land
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Forum discussion

15:30-16:00 Tea Break
16:00-17:30 Session 4: Innovative approaches (tools)
Chair: Cyprian Kirera Riungu
Rapporteur: John Meadows

Phillipe Lavigne Delville (France)
Registering and administering customary land rights: current innovations and issues in Francophone west Africa
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Dylan Rawlins (South Africa)
Land administration in a ‘cadastre-less’ environment
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Paul van der Molen and Christiaan Lemmen (The Netherlands)
Unconvential approaches to land administration. A point of view of land registrars and land surveyors
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Kombo Mwero (Kenya)
Spatial data infrastructure as a tool for secure land tenure
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Forum discussion

17:45

17:45

Departure bus from UN-Gigiri to the Panafric Hotel (guests of Panafric)

Departure bus from UN-Gigiri to the office of the ISK on Kimathi Street (local participants)

19:00-22:00 Barbeque buffet at the pool side of the Panafric Hotel (optional)
Friday, November 12, 2004
08:00

08:00

Departure bus from the Panafric Hotel to UN-Gigiri (guests of Panafric)

Departure bus from the office of the ISK on Kimathi Street to UN-Gigiri (local participants)

09:00-10:30 Session 5: Policies and innovations (various)
Chair: Saad Yahya
Rapporteur: Ulrik Westman

Jennifer Whittal (South Africa)
Fiscal cadastral reform and the implementation of CAMA in Cape Town
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Lusugga Kironde (Tanzania)
Capacity building for secure tenure: the role of the university college of lands and architectural studies (UCLAS), Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Alick Mwanza (Zambia)
White collar malpractices in cadastral surveying and their effects on secure land tenure and sustainable development
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Forum discussion

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 6: Lessons learned - good and bad (some countries as an example)
Chair: Galcano Mulaku
Rapporteur: Emmanuel Tembo

Eugène Rurangwa (Rwanda)
Land administration developments in Rwanda
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Léon Désiré Zalo (Côte d'Ivoire)
Réunion d'experts sur la sécurisation foncière

Fortune Kachamba (Zambia)
Innovative developments in Zambia: requirement for a land policy document

Gordon Wayumba (Kenya)
A review of special land tenure issues in Kenya
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Forum discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch break at the intercontinental Restaurant
14:00-15:30 Session 7: Lessons innovations (technology)
Chair: Jasper Ntwiga Mwenda
Rapporteur: Alick Mwanza

Carlos Trindade (Mozambique)
Upgrading and land titling in informal settlements
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Jukka Nieminen (Finland)
Systematic Land Information Management (SLIM)
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Emmanuel Tembo (and Julian Simela) (Botswana)
Improving land information management in tribal lands of Botswana
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Benita Nordin (Kenya)
The development of a GIS for an informal settlement, technical issues in regard to foundation data, having no/poor/inaccurate cadastral data
- Handouts of Powerpoint presentation

Forum discussion

15:30-16:00 Tea break
16:00-17:30 Session 8: Discussion about findings, conclusions and recommendations
Chair: Paul van der Molen
Rapporteur: Christiaan Lemmen
17:30 Closing
17:45

18:00

Departure bus from UN-Gigiri to the Panafric Hotel (guests of Panafric)

Departure bus from UN-Gigiri to Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi (local participants)

18:45 Departure bus Panafric Hotel for Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi (guests of Panafric)
19:30-22:30 Dinner at Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi
Hosted by the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK).
Guest of Honour is the Minister for Local Government.

© International Federation of Surveyors,  2003

Last revised on 15-09-04