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Project Description :
The Reconstruction of Aceh Land Administration System Project identifies land ownership and issues land titles. Over three years, landowners in Aceh and Nias will receive legal title documents which will provide them with a solid foundation for restarting their lives.
All land ownership is restored through a multi-tiered process. Facilitated by NGOs or Land Administration Agency (BPN), communities conduct a land inventory process in accordance with BPN guidelines. BPN adjudicates the results by measuring the parcels and validating community agreements on ownership and boundary demarcation. Results of adjudication are publicized for four weeks, followed by registration and issuance of the land titles. All services are free of charge. The project also establishes a modern land administration data base to prevent the loss of documentation caused by future disasters. In addition, the project also restores some of the land administration buildings that were destroyed due to the tsunami. |
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Issue Related to Gender : |
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RALAS makes conscious efforts in project design to protect women’s rights, including their right to inheritance, custodianship and ownership of land. The community-driven adjudication process described in the operations manual clearly sets out processes for female involvement, and has been cited by UN Habitat as the preferred approach for addressing post-disaster tenure security. Compliance with joint land titling and title distribution to women are part of the monitoring system set up for this project. The World Bank is currently preparing further research into the performance of this approach in comparison to more traditional land project approaches. This research will also analyze the benefits achieved for women. |
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Project
Name
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Reconstruction of Aceh Land Administration System
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| Grant Amount |
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USD 28.50 million |
| Start/ End |
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August 2005 - June 2009 |
| Geographic Area |
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All tsunami areas,
starting with Banda Aceh
and Aceh Besar |
| Partner Agency |
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the World Bank |
| Implementing Agency |
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BPN (National Land
Agency) |
| Funding Recipient |
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Ministry of Finance
(for on-funding to BPN) |
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Achievements to date:
The Partner Agency agreed to an initial extension of the project until June 30, 2009, to facilitate an orderly project closure, and the project was closed on shcedule on June 30, 2009. Overall, the project contributed modestly to restoring land rights and rebuilding land administration system in the province. Weak management, especially in the areas oversight and direction setting, procurement, program planning, and monitoring and evaluation led to significant delays and affected overall implementation progress. As of closing a total of 222,628 land title certificates had been distributed to land holders, of which 63,181 were issued in the name of women or jointly in the name of women. Cumulatively, BPN surveyed 275,945 land parcels and notified 272,912 land parcels.
Results |
Target |
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Land titles distributed |
600,000 |
222,628 |
Joint titles/ female ownership |
n/a |
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Land parcels out for public notification |
600,000 |
238,758 |
Land parcels adjudicated |
600,000 |
272,912 |
Land parcels officially surveyed by BPN |
600,000 |
275,945 |
Community land mapping |
600,000 |
317,170 |
Challenges:
The government requested a closing date extension to December 2011 and agreed upon conditions to be met by May 2009, in order for the Partner Agency to consider this extension. these conditions went beyond the title targets and included governance issues, the satisfactory completion of the AWP 2008 and satisfactory implementation performance by the time of the May review mission. At the time of the May review, no titles had been distributed by the program and the Partner Agency found that overall implementation performance was unsatisfactory. The Partner Agency closed the project as scheduled on June 30, 2009.
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