Land Administration: Improve Performance by Testing

Name: Land Administration: Improve Performance by Testing
Author: Ken Lyons

A Strategy Dynamics Approach
Special Reference to Developing Economies

In this book, Ken Lyons explains how to test a land administration aid project in a simulation model before it is funded, to see if it will work and if the gains will last after the aid ends. There are 14 chapters in three parts. Read any chapter online or download it as a PDF.

Start with Chapter 1

Aerial view of Honiara, Solomon Islands, and the hills behind the coast

Part A

Land Administration and Development

Chapter 113 pages · PDF 0.5 MB
Introduction
Why secure land rights matter, why lasting gains from aid are hard to achieve, and how testing a project first can help. Read chapter
Chapter 223 pages · PDF 1 MB
Land Administration and International Development Assistance (IDA)
What land administration is for, and why 3 to 5 year aid projects may be too short. Read chapter
Chapter 317 pages · PDF 0.9 MB
Development Logic and where the “System” of Land Administration (LA) fits in
Where the land administration system fits in aid project logic, and what simulation adds to logframes. Read chapter

Part B

The Strategy Dynamics Approach

includes an Example of Removing a Backlog in a Land Registry, and Keeping the Backlog Low, post IDA

Part C

Land Administration: Improve Performance by Testing

Land Administration and Development

Introduction

Land Administration and International Development Assistance (IDA)

Development Logic and where the “System” of Land Administration (LA) fits in

The Strategy Dynamics Approach

Strategy Dynamics – The Principles and applying them

Testing for Effectiveness and Sustainability

Project Financials and Evaluation

Using the SD Model as a Living Business Model to Manage the Project

Summary – The Strategy Dynamics Approach and How it Adds Value

The Strategy Dynamics Approach applied to other areas of Land Administration

Upgrading the Quality of a Land Registry: Increasing Reputation; Winning Back Customers; Increasing Revenue; Financing Sustainability

Staff Development: Building skills and increasing work capacity

Increasing Quality: where Quality has Subcomponents which are the Responsibility of Different Agencies

Addressing Informal fees

Using Title as Collateral to Obtain Development Capital

Examining Options for IRPR (Initial Recording of Property Rights)