The Social Tenure Domain Model

摘要

Land administration plays a crucial macroeconomic role in the collection, management and dissemination of information about land tenure rights, land use and value. However, high-end technology-driven solutions often create serious implementation constraints where issues such as those related to licence costs of proprietary software have been reported to land administration programmes. In addition, despite the developments and advances in geo-ICT, there still exists a gap in the development of tools that model people-to-land relationships independently from the level of formalisation, or legality, of these relationships. The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) was designed to specifically address these challenges.The STDM is a pro-poor, participatory, flexible and affordable land tool for representing people-to-land relationships along the 'continuum of land rights', independently of the level of formalisation and legality of those relationships. The basic way of defining any form of land right represented through the STDM is that a party has a social tenure relationship with a spatial unit supported by evidence-based source documents (Figure 1), and this also applies to related restrictions and responsibilities. A party can be a person, household or a cooperative society, whereas a parcel, informal structure, natural resources or building can be used to represent a spatial unit. The STDM is an initiative of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) in collaboration with its partners to support pro-poor land administration.