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FIG Commission 7 Report

Yaounde, Cameroon 2013

FIG Commission 7

Cadastre and Land Management

Yaounde, Cameroon

October 2013

Daniel Roberge, chair

FIG Commission 7



105 Member Associations; 41 Affiliate Members; 95 Academic Members & 32 Corporate Members

130 Countries



Annual General Assembly

105 member associations (81 countries)

Council

President and 4 Vice-Presidents FIG Office

Com1 Practice Com2

Education

Com3 Spat.Inf.Man Com4

Hydrography

Com5 Posit.&Map Com6

Eng.Surveys

Com7 Cad&LandMan. Com8

Spat.Plan.&Dev.

Com9 Valuation Com10

Const Econom.

Chairman, vice-chairs, national delegates, work plan, working groups, seminars etc

Organisational Structure

ACCO Advisory Committee

of Commission Officers

FIG Foundation



Commission chairs

Leonie Newnham, Steven Frank, Yerach Doytsher, Michael Sutherland,

Mikael Lilje, Gethin W. Roberts, Daniel Roberge, Wafula Nabutola,

Frances Plimmer and Robert Sinkner



Commission 7 - Priorities

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



Chair: Daniel Roberge

Administration and Communication

Vice-chair: Claire Galpin

Young Surveyor Network representative: Jean-

François Beaupré

W.G.7.1 - Pro Poor Land Tools - C.Lemmen

W.G. 7.2 – Land Administration, Natural Disasters and

Climate Change - D. Mitchell & J. Zevenbergen

W.G. 7.3 - Cadastral Perspectives - G. Schennach

3D Cadastre - Joint W.G. with Com. 3

P. van Oosterom

W.G. 7.4 - Land Management Reforms R. Grover

Commission 7 - Administration



Land Administration Domain Model Social Tenure Domain Model

LADM is now a new ISO Standard • includes Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM):

• includes the administration of formal and customary rights integrated

• STDM is strongly supported by FIG, the World Bank and UN Habitat

Working Group 7.1

Pro Poor Land Management



Working Group 7.2

Disaster Management and Climate Change



Develop a better preparedness and response to

natural disaster and climate change, addressing

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.

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Working Group 7.2




Land and disaster response • Land tenure and emergency shelter, transitional settlement

• 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 displaced persons and returnees whose land is lost

or unsafe

Commencing the Project 11

Working Group 7.2




Joint project with UN FAO and linked to Voluntary

Guidelines.

Information for land professionals via FIG website and

other platforms when appropriate

Online training material on land tenure and natural

disasters for land and related professionals.

• This will comprise several modules relating to different stages

of a Disaster Risk Management Framework.

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Working Group 7.2




Working Group 7.2

Training session at the FAO HQ

Rome, May 2012



Special session organized at the FAO Headquarter in

Rome in May 2012

Technical session at the Working Week in Abuja,

Nigeria in May 2013 on Land Administration, Natural

Disaster and Climate Change

FAO-FIG Collaboration:

Elaboration of e-learning training materials



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

International Symposium “Cadastre 2.0” on 1 Oct 2011 in Innsbruck, Austria and proceedings "Cadastre 2.0"

Special session about Perspectives in Land administration, Rome, May 2012 and San Luis, Argentina, Dec. 2012

Working Group 7.3

Cadastral Perspectives



Questionnaire about new techniques in cadastre

and analysis

Investigation about possible professional and

future models

define a multifunctional cadastre as a successor

of multipurpose cadastre

Workplan for 2012/2013:

Working Group 7.3

Cadastral Perspectives



Chair: Peter van Oosterom

Work plan 2010-2014 on

www.gdmc.nl/3DCadastres

3D Cadastre Symposium in Shenzhen,

China, 2012: http://www.cadastre2012.org/

FIG Joint working group with Com. 3

on 3D Cadastre

http://www.gdmc.nl/3DCadastres

http://www.cadastre2012.org/



Working Group 7.4

Land management reforms

Policy issues:

Cadastral and land management reforms

State land management

Governance of land management

Deliverables:

Publication on state land management

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



International Seminar on State Land

Management in Transitional Countries: Issues

and Ways Forward, Budapest, Hungary,

September 20-21, 2012: 65 delegates from 26 countries

Papers and presentations available from: http://en.foldhivatal.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=

view&id=175&Itemid=166

Electronic book in preparation

Discussions underway to see if similar

seminars can be run in other regions.

Working Group 7.4

Land management reforms

http://en.foldhivatal.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=175&Itemid=166

http://en.foldhivatal.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=175&Itemid=166



Great opportunity to meet South

American colleagues and build bridges

International Symposium with the

theme “Land Governance in South

America and International

Perspectives”

Common declaration on the need for

closer cooperation and collaboration

between local professionals

themselves and with international

organizations

• «Language is not a barrier: Any

linguistic challenges can be addressed

by the willingness and efforts to

engage and work together».

FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting

San Luis, Argentina, 30 Nov. – 4 Dec. 2012



FIG Commission 7

Cadastre and Land Management

FIG Commission 7 take off

Where Sky is not the limit !


Yaounde, Cameroon 2013 Access to the presentations made during the annual meeting and the

International Symposium: http://fig2012-c7.jimdo.com/

http://fig2012-c7.jimdo.com/





FIG Commission 7 well

represented during the World Bank

Annual Conference Land and

Poverty

Spatially enablement and fit-for-

purpose solutions in land

administration presented and

discussed in many sessions and

during the expert group meeting.

World Bank Annual Land Conference Washington DC, 8-11 April 2013

Presentation made by Daniel Roberge, chair of FIG Commission 7:

The new Land Surveyor: A geospatiallist with social responsibilities.

A big thank to : Teo CheeHai, Stig Enemark, Christiaan Lemmen,

Daniel Steudler, Robin McLaren, Kees de Zeeuw, Mike Barry,

Jongmin Lee, Rohan Bennet for having represented the surveying

community in this major conference.



Working Week in Abuja, May 2013

The biggest FIG Working Week ever with more than 2,000 Nigerians and close to 250 International participants from 40 countries.

10 Commission 7 sessions



FIG and CPCI

Commission 7 was in Cordoba ( Argentina)

as participant in Annual Meeting of CPCI

(Permanent Commitee of Iberic Cadastres)

Claire Galpin and Gerda Schennach

FIG as CPCI Member observer



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