Quality assessment of the land administration system in Pakistan

Abstract

Performance issues of land administration systems, specifically the quality aspects, have been getting more attention over the last few years. Different assessment attempts have been carried out at international level, across different land administration systems in the world, to evaluate the performance of land administration systems by comparing different aspects of these systems. In all these evaluations, prime attention is given to only those measuring parameters which are common to all these systems. In some cases, legal and technical parameters are considered while the institutional and organisational parameters receive more attention in others. There have been a few efforts to standardise the procedures for assessing the performance of land administration systems at international level but there is no internationally accepted or standardised method to assess the quality of a standalone land administration system (LAS) within a country's environment. To be able to assess the quality of a standalone LAS, this paper develops a conceptual and methodological framework for carrying out in-depth analysis of the system. This research identifies those elements, indicators and variables that are required for assessing the quality of a standalone LAS. In order to identify such elements, indicators and variables to be included in the framework, a theoretical background is first discussed. A quality assessment framework and the methodological approach for assessing the quality of LASs are then developed. The approach is finally applied to assess the quality situation of the LAS in Pakistan by using the quality assessment framework via an explanatory case-study approach.

A framework for assessment of customary land delivery institutions: instrument development, content validity and reliability testing

“…Others criteria for consideration in the literature (Garba and Al-Mubaiyedh, 1999; Ilesanmi and Ogunshakin, 2007; Ali et al. , 2013) include:Leadership structureLevel of professionalism of management and manpower structureLevel of divergence between policy statements and implementationLevel of autonomyLevel of existence of statutory boardsClarity of organisational mandateClarity of institutional mandatesState of institutional administrative structuresLevel of decentralization in decision makingAdequacy of Institutional resourcesAdequacy of inter-organisational coordinationLevel of inter-organisational cooperation/conflict…”

“…Again, Ali et al. (2013) developed a framework for measuring performance of land administration system (LAS) which covers both institutional and technical perspective of LAS.…”

Assessing the Quality Land Administration System in Pakistan Using Systematic Approach of Case Study Methodology

“…The collected data comprised interviews with all the stakeholders including law professionals, land owners, real estate agencies, revenue courts and banks officials, as well as visits to the Board of Revenue (BOR) offices at Peshawar and Swabi districts to meet with the BOR officials and staff [31,32,33].…”

“…An explanatory case study approach is used in the second field visit to explain the quality situation of the existing LAS for the most important elements (explored in the first case study) as well as other contributing elements through their indicators and variables. The second field visit was also conducted in the study areas to collect both qualitative and quantitative data through visits, interviews, and questionnaire surveys [33]. This included interviews with the stakeholders including; land owners, law professionals, real estate agencies, revenue courts, and banks officials, as well as visits to the BOR offices in these districts to meet with BOR officials and staff.…”

Extending the analysis of urban land conflict: An example from Johannesburg

“…Relating to these three areas of work, Babette Wehrmann’s definition of urban land conflict usefully captures the defining features of urban land conflict as relating to (a) the distribution of, or differential access to, (b) property rights to land. Emerging from a report on land conflict that has gained some purchase in academic debates (Ali et al, 2013; Hui and Bao, 2013; Lombard, 2012), Wehrmann (2008: 9) argues that a distinctive feature of land conflict is that it is:a social fact in which at least two parties are involved, the roots of which are different interests over the property rights to land: the right to use the land, to manage land, to generate an income from the land, to exclude others from the land, to transfer it and the right to compensation for it.…”