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ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT:
PROJECTS

Area:

Alternative Development 

Project Name:

Land Titling in the North and South Yungas of La Paz, Bolivia

Start date /Duration:

10 months (May 2003 -- February 2004)

Location:

Department of the La Paz province of Yungas Cantones "Arapata y Coripata"

Beneficiaries:

1,343 Families

Participating Institutions:

The National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA) and the Vice-Ministry of Alternative Development of Bolivia (VIMDESALT)

Budget:

US$ 304,578.64

Donors:

Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)

Project Description:

According to the dispositions of Law 1715, a common procedure was established for land titling and distribution in the CAT-SAN system.  In this method it is required that the following draining phases should be followed:   

1.       Information gathering at the national level and in the field.  Identify the agricultural processes, land categories and national research for existing information.

2.       Creation of base maps.  Bolivia does not have updated and accountable geographical information of the area.  For this reason it is important to create reliable maps of the areas in which the project will be implemented.  These maps will be created under aerial photography, ortho-photo mapping processes and/or spatial imagery.  It is expected that this information provide the necessary tools to facilitate plot boundaries for project experts in a way that they will be able to identify the fields and land owners to geographically locate their lands.  This procedure will assist in gathering specific cadastre information by plot. (This information includes Raster data which includes satellite imagery  with a resolution of 1m pixel, Ortho-imagery Carterra Map IKONOS +/- 3m panchromatic), and vectorial data including raster data, infrastructure, hydrographic, and demographic information.

3.       Public awareness campaign.  Dissemination, demonstration and awareness of the processes, methodologies, proprietary rights, legislation and regulations, benefits, coverage, among other issues. 

4.       Develop a modern land registration system by helping in-situ offices operate according to agreed standards, and strengthening land valuation to support land registration.

5.       Establish a system in which the INRA provides information to current and future land owners to develop and participate in the different phases of the project, and certify its current proprietorship and legal documents. Project implementation would include social assessment and continue to involve a range of stakeholders in project learning.

6.       Carry out a cadastral survey and measurement.  Implement a legal investigation on the current plot right including historical information, land characteristics, identification of prior and current land owners.  The gathered technical/legal information will be included in a cadastral record which will be inventoried and registered.  Likewise, develop plot measurement techniques to establish land boundaries.  In the hypothetical scenarios of ownership disagreement, conciliation meetings will be held to come to a solution.   

7.       Execute a technical/legal assessment.  Review and analyze the information gathered from national records and data from the field about the existing proprietorship documents.

8.       Public dissemination of the project results.  Public presentation of the results including individual cadastral maps, polygonal maps, technical/legal evaluations,   notification on price adjudication, tax rates, and  the report on agreement or disparity on the obtained results. This activity will help reduce errors, validate the results and enhance transparency in the process.

9.       Issuance of legal and technical documents. Issue individual, polygonal, and community maps of plots, generate and publish the results of the legal and technical evaluation of the area.

10.   Issuance of tax resolutions. Determine property rights and land obligations as well as the uselessness of expire or illegal titles.

11.   Information transfer to the Real Rights Office.  Provide the information encountered on the inscription titles, sub – inscriptions, and void registries that were based on the tax resolution process.

12.   Provide the cadastre information encountered to the government of the municipalities, which includes the technical and legal information of the taxable properties and coordinate with the local governments of the establishment, maintenance and update of the Legal Rural Cadastre.  

Objectives:

The project expects to provide a positive environmental impact that will prevent land degradation through better agricultural practices and land resource management.  In the long term, productivity gains are expected and improved land administration information which will facilitate environmental management.

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