News in 2014
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Modernising Land Agencies Budgetary Approach: Costing and
Financing of Land Administration Services in Developing Countries
Validation Workshop - 15 - 16 October 2014, Bangkok, Thailand
21 participants from 15 countries comprising of administrators and land
professionals coming from International (multilateral) Organizations,
Academia, Public Service and Private Practice, who themselves comprises both
stakeholders and GLTN Partners at a validation workshop convened jointly by
GLTN and FIG validated the CoFLAS tool.
GLTN is now preparing to bring this validated CoFLAS tool into a new
phase, piloting at country level. FIG, its membership and corps of
volunteers that were involved in this tool development process since
2010/2011 are immensely privileged to be able to contribute towards
conceptualising and designing of this land tool, one within the suite of 18
land tools embedded in 5 overarching themes envisage by GLTN to bring about
improved efficiency and effectiveness to land administration and management
towards securing land and property rights for all. The validation workshop
was held on 15 and 16 October 2014 at the Holiday Inn Bangkok Silom Hotel.
CoFLAS, the acronym for “Costing and Financing of Land Administration
Services”, focuses on the cost of developing and maintaining a LAS and the
likely return from LAS. A key initiative that underpins the approach adopted
in developing CoFLAS is the concept of the “Fit-For-Purpose” Land
Administration (FIG/World Bank, 2014). The CoFLAS tool is intended to
support –
- Land sector staff in preparing proposals for LAS reform;
- Policy makers in the land sector in assessing such proposals and in
making a case for support within government and from development
partners; and
- Key government agencies and development partners in reviewing LAS
reform proposals
towards ensuring that such proposals provide value for money and consider
appropriate options.
The development of this tool, an initiative under GLTN represented
collaborative efforts between GLTN, FIG, Lantmateriet (Sweden) and Kadaster
International (The Netherlands) supported by Statkart (Norway), Geodata
Agency (Denmark) and LINZ (New Zealand). Information and data was collected
with support from the agencies providing LAS services in Albania, Botswana,
Denmark, Georgia, Lesotho, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Perú,
Rwanda, Sweden and Thailand.
CoFLAS was developed to assist policy makers and those responsible for
land administration to adopt appropriate technologies and methodologies that
will provide and sustain land administration services more efficiently, cost
effectively and with options most appropriately tailored for incorporating
all tenure types. The development of the tool reached an important
milestone, that being the release of the first version (CoFLAS I) at the XXV
FIG Congress in Kuala Lumpur in June 2014. This milestone by default
triggered a need for a validation exercise.
The validation workshop in Bangkok was scoped and organized -
- To assess the quality of final version of CoFLAS I and determine the
extent to which it can help achieve the stated objective of the CoFLAS
project that was set when it was launched;
- To identify gaps and shortcomings in the current version, analyse
challenges and opportunities and make recommendation whereby the tool
can be taken to the next level; and
- To provide guidance on the piloting of the current version, review
and recommend best opportunities to do so.
CheeHai Teo
October 2014
The participants at the meeting on Costing and Financing of Land
Administration Services. |
Participants at the CoFLAS meeting |
The participants were very engaged in the discussions |
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10 November 2014
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