IV. Land Administration Infrastructure: The Other Side of the Coin1

There is a great amount of effort worldwide to understand the problems of shelter, access to land and security of tenure for the urban poor, but very little attention to the mechanics of policy implementation. In other words there is little attention to the practical or “engineering” side of designing, building and managing land administration infrastructures which facilitate shelter, security of tenure and access to land for the urban poor – in other words “the other side of the coin”. In considering the mechanics of policy implementation, this paper reviews the dimensions of land administration, the concept of a land administration “tool box”, a holistic approach to developing land administration infrastructures in developing countries, and finally the critical component of capacity building. For a more detailed investigation of this subject see the paper by the author titled “Land Administration Best Practice – providing the infrastructure for land policy implementation”.