Introduction

Secure and enforceable land and property rights are fundamental to a country's social stability and economic development. Land administration is the bundle of laws, institutions, procedures and services that set, regulate and enforce those rights, and regulate the land market. It is more advanced, efficient and effective in developed economies than in developing ones. International aid has tried for many years to close that gap, but wide and lasting benefits have been hard to achieve.

The central idea is that, with a Strategy Dynamics approach, proposals to improve land administration can be tested for effectiveness and sustainability during project design, before large funding is committed. The tests use numbers and are open to view. The same model can then serve as a living business model for monitoring and evaluation, during aid and after it ends. The introduction also explains who the book is for and how its three Parts fit together. All examples in the book are hypothetical and illustrative.