Tag: Property Rights
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Registration of Private Land in Kenya
This is the next in the series of blog posts on research into applying ICTs to the data capture element of land registration. The previous blog post was titled: Affordable Tools for Demarcation of Land are Widely Available. In one of our previous posts, we wrote about the requirements and the process of registering community…
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Affordable Tools for Demarcation of Land are Widely Available
We cannot do the all the work alone. There are not enough of us. Joe Kheti, Kenyan Surveyor This is the next in the series of blog posts on research into applying ICTs to the data capture element of land registration. The previous blog post was titled: Registration of Community Land in Kenya. According to…
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Registration of Community Land in Kenya
This is the next in the series of blog posts on research into applying ICTs to the data capture element of land registration. The previous blog post was titled: The Process of Land Adjudication in Kenya. The Land Registration Act 2012[1] aimed to ‘revise, consolidate and rationalize the registration of titles to land [and] to…
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The Process of Land Adjudication in Kenya
This is the next in the series of blog posts on research into applying ICTs to the data capture element of land registration. The previous blog post was titled: A Short Note on Land Laws in Kenya. While the previous blog post briefly describes the classification of land in Kenya according to the new constitution,…
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A Short Note on Land Laws in Kenya
Previous blog in a series: Land Tenure Issues in Taita Hills Land remains a contentious and problematic issue in Kenya, particularly land held in areas predominantly perceived as the traditional home of a community. Land reforms in Kenya were mainly run under systems set up by colonialists from as early as 1885. Through the years…
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Land Tenure Issues in Taita Hills
As a part of our research into applying ICTs to the data capture element of land registration, we conducted a series of interviews in Taita Hills touching on major issues people face when it comes to land tenure. The interviews were done in Wongonyi, Ghazi, and Kishushe village, and other locations throughout Taita Taveta County.…
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The Need for Inclusive Community- and Data-centered Land Registration Within Standards and Legal Thresholds
In countries across Africa, many people do not have access to formal land registration. Individual and shared property rights have not been properly documented or acknowledged. Lack of documentary evidence of customary property rights leaves individuals, households, and communities at a disadvantage. Lack of customary land rights has undermined the ability of individuals, households, and…
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Putting Community and Rights on the Map in Southern Kenya
Throughout 2017, Spatial Collective applied new technologies to the data capture element of land registration in order to test whether affordable tools for documentation of land exist, whether these tools can reach the accuracy standards required by the state, and whether communities can replicate the work of a professional surveyor. To do this, our research…