Latin America
Peru Urban Property Rights Project
The principal objective of this World Bank project is to create a system which assures formal and sustainable rights to real property in selected, predominantly poor, settlements in larger urban areas. Greater security of ownership will enhance the welfare of the owners. To this end, the project would support a national program for formalising urban property rights (issuing and registering titles). Through legal and institutional improvements, training and the development of long-term strategies, it would also strengthen the organisation responsible for this program.
Land Equity International has been involved in this project twice, firstly (1997-1998) in the Project Preparation Phase and secondly (2000) in development of a long-term strategy for the Urban Registry.
During the Project Preparation Phase, Land Equity International was required to work closely with a range of other consultants working on various aspects of the preparation task, including legal framework, institutionalisation, socio-economic impact, linkages to the finance sector and then, in close consultation with the Government, integrate the reports and information produced by itself with those of the other consultants into a detailed Project Implementation Plan, with an overall report in draft Project Appraisal Report format.
Land Equity provided the team leader, who was responsible for the day-to-day management of the consultancy under direction of the Arthur Andersen Project Director.
Specific inputs were provided into the following areas:
- Land registration (optimisation/minimize cost/simplify land registration process, options for remote inscriptions, advice on relative importance of digital and manual registration process, land records management and cross indices, organizational/staff responsibilities)
- International land law (roles/responsibilities of Registry and registrars, law of evidence - "digital" data and signatures)
- Survey/mapping/GIS (survey/mapping requirements, survey/mapping standards, role of private sector, GIS strategy)
- Development of RPU (services and new products, customer relations and service program/publicity, office typologies (front/back, back, front. mobile), operational basis for office roll-out, technology strategies)
- RPU/RPI merger/client strategies
