CHALLENGES AND OUTCOMES OF PILOTING THE SOCIAL TENURE DOMAIN MODEL (STDM) IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN

Charisse Griffith-Charles, Asad Mohammed, Sunil Lalloo, Cyprian Selebalo, Danilo Antonio, Jamal Browne

TENURE SITUATION IN THE OECS

Two main types of informal tenures:

1. Squatting/illegal occupation of land2. Family land – customary tenure

PILOTING METHODOLOGY

Pilots selected – Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent

Two areas in each country selected to

capture informal (squatting) and customary

(family) lands.

Study areas chosen based on annecdotal

data and sampling done in a geographical

cluster-census type methodology.

FAMILY LAND – SAINT LUCIA - PRASLIN

PRASLIN FAMILY LANDPETER JULIEN’s

Land

10 Direct Descendants – Land Formally administrated

3 Legally appointed adminstrators

5-7th Generation Heirs of Peter

JulienFrancis Family

All Dead

Sale? Inheritance?

PRASLIN – TYPICAL HOUSING UNITS

PRASLIN – SUBDIVIDED FAMILY LAND

SAINT VINCENT FAMILY LAND - LAYOU

THE PECULIAR CASE OF LAYOU

Land owned by the Government and Private

individuals.

Current occupiers are heirs of squatters.

Heirs practice family land governance.

Some occupiers gained “permission” to

occupy from a local government official.

SAINT VINCENT FAMILY LAND – LA CROIX

LA CROIX - ACCESSHouses are built on steeply sloping land by which access is by foot on a series of make-shift stair cases or on terraced land.

Vehicular access is not facilitated.

LA CROIX – DIAMOND FAMILYThe Matriarchs

Dorris Diamond – Age 75

Cristina Diamond – Age 79

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