Work Plan 2011-2014

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Title

Cadastre and Land Management 

Mr. Daniel Roberge, Chairperson of Commission 7

Terms of reference

Commission 7 deals with land administration and land rights infrastructures in a sustainable development perspective:

• cadastre and land registration
• land reform, cadastral reform, land consolidation
• land governance
• land use and land management
• land valuation and land taxation
• security of tenure
• land policy and land legislation
• land market
• capacity building in land administration
• e-governance
• low cost technology in land administration

The mission of Commission 7 is to:

• To provide a forum for enhancing and exchanging knowledge about cadastre, land administration and land management world wide;
• To encourage the development of pro poor land management and land administration;
• To promote the importance of development of sustainable land administration as infrastructure for sustainable development to underpin economic growth;
• To promote the application of innovative and advanced technology in cadastre and land administration;
• To promote awareness of the role of surveyors in land administration matters to the public and among stake holders.

Priorities

For the period 2011-2014, FIG Commission 7 priorities will focus in:

• promoting land rights infrastructures and good land governance to contribute to sustainable development
• developing a better preparedness and response to natural disaster and climate change
• developing a better cooperation between land surveyors aiming to improve the capacity and governance in land administration
• developing cadastral perspectives
• investigating direct involvement of citizens into e-land administration processes
• co-operating with international organizations in land tenure issues

Working Group 7.1 - Pro Poor Land Tools

Policy issues

• Promote land rights infrastructures and good land governance to contribute to pro-poor and sustainable development
• Continue to work on:
• Social Tenure Domain Model which is a part of the Land Administration Domain Model under development at TC211 from ISO
• Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)
• Collaborate with FAO in the finalization of the Multilingual Thesaurus on Land Tenure

Chair

Mr. Christiaan Lemmen ITC THE NETHERLANDS E-mail: chrit.lemmen[at]kadaster.nl

Events/Activities

• Participation in meetings related to the activities of the Working Group
• Investigations on OpenCadastreMap
• Investigations on Low Cost High Tech Data Acquisition Methods
• Expert Group Meetings

Deliverables

• International Standard for the Land Administration Domain (ISO 19152) with the Social Tenure Domain Model as a specialization.
• Collaboration with FAO in the finalization of the Multilingual Thesaurus on Land Tenure
• Information for land professionals via FIG Website and other platforms when appropriate

Working Group 7.2 –  Land Administration, Natural Disasters and Climate Change

Terms of reference

Develop a better preparedness and response to natural disaster and climate change.

Focus:

• Land issues in disaster preparedness and mitigation
• Land issues in recovery and reconstruction
• Disaster mitigation in land policies
• Land tenure, use and value in risk mapping
• Link access to land and vulnerability / resilience
• Use risk maps in land use planning and land development
• Capacity building in land agencies.
• Land and disaster response
  • Land tenure and emergency shelter, transitional settlemen
  • Land issues in rapid and detailed assessments
  • Raise land issues early on (e.g. flash appeal)
  • Pressure cooker of developments
  • Window of opportunity for change
• Recovery
  • Rescue, recover, repair land records
  • Land tenure and (updated) hazard risk mapping
  • Access to land for IDP’s, for returnees whose land is lost or unsafe
    • Site selection for resettlement
    • Position of weaker tenure holders, lessees, etc.
    • Adjudication of land rights
  • Restoring capacity in land agencies
  • Tenure security for resettlement
  • Conflict resolution

Co-chairs

	David Mitchell, AUSTRALIA, email: david.mitchell[at]rmit.edu.au
	Jaap Zevenbergen THE NETHERLANDS, email: zevenbergen[at]itc.nl

Working group 7.3 – Cadastral perspectives

Policy issues

• Cadastral perspectives “Beyond Cadastre 2014”
• 3D Cadastre (joint working group with Commission 3 chaired by Peter van Oosterom)
  • 3D Cadastre: models, standards, spatial information infrastructure, time management (4D), registration
  • Best practices and guidelines (legal, institutional and technical aspects) for the implementation of 3D-cadastres.
• Cadastre and Carbon credit management
• Participation in the Task Force about Spatially Enabled Society
• New tools for Cadastre management systems

Chair

Gerda Schennach, AUSTRIA Email: Gerda.Schennach[at]bev.gv.at

Events

• International Symposium on “Cadastre 2.0” in Innsbruck/Austria, 30 Sept 2011
• Second International Workshop on 3D-Cadastres FIG/EuroSDR (http://3dcadastres2011.nl), Delft, The Netherlands, 16-18 November 2011
• Possible participation to the GSDI-13 Conference, Quebec City, Canada

Deliverables

• FIG publication: Cadastre 2.0
• FIG publication: Guidelines to establish 3D-cadastres addressing legal, institutional and technical issues

Working group 7.4 – Land Management Reforms 

Policy issues

• Cadastral and land management reforms
  State land management
  Governance of land management

Chair

Events

• Session at FIG Working Week 2011 in Marrakech on improving the management of state land – FAO collaboration expected
• Seminar on cadastral reforms and land governance

Deliverables

• Publication on state land management
• Publication on cadastral reforms and land governance
• Co-operation with FAO on Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Land and Natural Resources Tenure
• Co-operation with FAO on guidance on state land management
• Training materials on the management of state land

Co-operation with other FIG commissions and organisations

Commission 7 will namely contribute to the following Joint Commission Working Groups:

• Commission 1: Working Group 1.1 on International Boundaries (joint with Commissions 4, 5, 6 and 7)
  • Commission 7 representative in this Working Group is Daniel Roberge
• Commission 3 : Working Group 3.3 - 3D Cadastre (joint with Commission 7)
  • Commission 7 representative in this Working Group is Peter van Oosterom

Co-operation with United Nation Organisations, Sister Associations and other Partners

Commission 7 will cooperate with international organizations in land tenure issues under guidelines from the FIG Council.

Events and annual meetings

2011

• Commission 7 Annual Meeting and International Symposium “Cadastre 2.0”, 25 September–1 October 2011, Innsbruck, Austria

2012

• Commission 7 Annual Meeting: Africa (Francophone Western African Country – Joint event with the Fédération des géomètres francophones (Francophone Federation of Surveyors) (to be confirmed)

2013

• Commission 7 Annual Meeting: Latin America (to be confirmed)

2014

• Commission 7 Annual Meeting: Québec, Canada (to be confirmed)

Commission Officers

Commission Chair

Mr. Daniel Roberge Bureau de l'arpenteur général du Québec 5700, 4e avenue O., Bureau F 310 Charlesbourg, Québec G1H 6R1 CANADA Tel: +1 418-627-6263 x 2646 Fax: +1 418-643-6512 E-mail: daniel.roberge[at]mrnf.gouv.qc.ca

Vice Chair of Administration

Vice Chair and Chair of WG 7.1 - Pro Poor Land Tools
 

Mr. Christiaan Lemmen Cadastre and Public Registers Agency P.O. Box 9046 NL-7300 GH Apeldoorn THE NETHERLANDS Visiting address: Jean Monnetpark 1, 7336 BA Apeldoorn Tel. + 31 55 528 5634 Fax + 31 55 355 7362 E-mail: lemmen[at]itc.nl

Vice Chair and Co-Chairs of WG 7.2 - Land Administration, Natural Disasters and Climate Change

	David Mitchell School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, SET Portfolio, RMIT University GPO Box 2476V Melbourne AUSTRALIA Tel. + 61 3 9925 2420 Fax + 61 3 9663 2517 Email: d.mitchell[at]rmit.edu.au  Web site: http://www.gs.rmit.edu.au
	Jaap Zevenbergen University of Twente Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) Department of Urban and Region Planning and Geoinformation Management P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede, THE NETHERLANDS Tel: +31 (0)53 4874351 Fax: +31 (0)53 4874575 Paul.vanderMolen@kadaster. zevenbergen[at]itc.nl

Vice Chair and Chair of WG 7.3 - Cadastral perspectives

Gerda Schennach, Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying Buergerstrasse 34 A-6010 Innsbruck AUSTRIA Tel. + 43 512 588 411 60 Fax + 43 512 588 411 61 E-mail: gerda.schennach[at]bev.gv.at

Vice Chair and Chair of WG 7.4 - Land Management Reforms

9 August 2011

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