Exploring and assessing STDM and LADM for gender equitable land administration

International laws and frameworks such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its defined Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), together with the Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security (VGGTs) are key global cornerstones in the protection...

Specialization of the LADM - Modelling of Non-formal RRR

This paper proposes a more detailed classification of the legal part of the LADM, ISO 19152, (i.e. interests in land) than possible in the current standard (ISO, 2012) today and is an attempt to raise awareness of the possibilities to further develop the LADMs ‘right’, ‘restriction’ and ‘responsibility’ classes (RRR). The term ‘land’ is here...

The Social Tenure Domain Model: a Specialisation of LADM towards bridging the Information Divide1

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon declares that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most successful global anti-poverty ‘push’ in history and that the number of people living in extreme poverty has now been halved (United Nations 2013). This is indeed good news. However, the challenge on poverty reduction is still...

Key Considerations for the Adaptation of the STDM for the OECS Member States

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), with the assistance of the Australian government’s aid agency, AusAID, and UNHabitat, is currently working on developing regional land policy guidelines that will address the most critical land issues being faced by the countries, not the least of which is the impending impact of climate...