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– determination of what land and property rights already exist;
– demarcation and survey of new plots of land;

– establishment of new registers and procedures for storing and retrieving land data;
– putting in place new financial management procedures;
– development of public awareness on why a registration is needed and how the system works.

3.2 Flexible and pragmatic approach

In general, building a proper land administration system is very complex, expensive and time consuming.
Such land administration systems may take some time to stabilize and be used by the general populations.
However, on a positive note, with modern techniques such as aerial photographs, standard IT-functionality,
data models (LADM) and a participatory approach, in 2-3 years time, a full-fledged “Fit-For-Purpose” Land
Registry system could be established as has been observed in Namibia, Rwanda and Lesotho.

Picture 1 – Land title programme in Rwanda

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