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  1. Library Resource
    Tech and Transparency: democratising data and empowering communities with cutting-edge technologies

    A Webinar Report

    Reports & Research
    August, 2019
    Tanzania, Jamaica, Global

    lack of transparency in the land and property sector prevents individuals, communities and governments from unlocking the value of the property as an asset, and undermines policies and legal frameworks that aim to provide land tenure security, potentially leading to a misallocation of rights. In fact, land governance is ranked among the sectors in which people are most likely to pay bribes for access to services, according to Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Antigua and Barbuda, France, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Belize, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Venezuela, Guyana, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Spain, Grenada, Haiti, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands, Saint Lucia, India, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Americas

    Documento de trabajo sobre la tenencia de la tierra 17. Este artículo identifica y analiza los aspectos relacionados con la gobernanza de la tierra y proporciona ejemplos de buena gobernanza en la subregión del Caribe. Este documento de trabajo se realizó en vista de las Directrices Voluntarias de la FAO sobre la gobernanza responsable en la tenencia de la tierra y otros recursos naturales. Disponible en inglés

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Americas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Suriname

    Concentration of land ownership, lack of access, insecurity of tenure and lack of efficiency and transparency in land administration services, are among the obstacles towards responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources in Latin America. These issues have been the subject of discussions and policy recommendations during many international forums, such as the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in March 2006.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Americas, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, India, Spain, France, Netherlands

    Land Tenure Working Paper 17. This publication identifies and assesses issues related to land governance and provides examples of good governance in the Caribbean subregion. This working paper was done in light of FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Antigua and Barbuda, France, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Belize, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Venezuela, Guyana, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Spain, Grenada, Haiti, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands, Saint Lucia, India, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Americas

    Document de travail sur les régimes fonciers 17. Cet article identifie et analyse des questions relatives à la gouvernance des terres et apporte des exemples de bonne gouvernance de la sous-région des Caraïbes. Cette étude a été conduite en vue de l’initiative de la FAO sur les Directives Volontaires sur la gouvernance responsable de la tenure des terres et des autres ressources naturelles. Disponible en anglais

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    France, Switzerland, United States of America, Fiji, Afghanistan, Samoa, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Australia, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Laos, Japan, Uganda, Italy, Ecuador, Cambodia, India
  7. Library Resource
    Regulations
    Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean

    These Regulations implement provisions of the Registration of Titles Act in relation with the certificate of title.

    Implements: Registration of Titles Act. (2006)

  8. Library Resource

    An Act to amend the Registration (Strata Titles) Act.

    Legislation
    Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean

    This Act amends the Registration (Strata Titles) Act. It, among other things, replacing in section 4 the words "corporation" with "commission". Section 4 concerns the corporation to be constituted by strata lot owners.

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    Legislation
    Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean

    This Act makes provision for the division of real property in strata lots, defines rights of common ownership and related rights in relation with a strata plan, and provides for administration of common property and the registration of strata titles.Land under the operation of the Registration of Titles Act may be subdivided into strata lots in accordance with a strata plan registered by the Registrar of Titles in the manner provided by this Act. The proprietors of all the strata lots contained in any strata plan shall, upon registration of the strata plan, become a body corporate.

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Jamaica, Americas, Caribbean

    This Act grants power to the Minister to declare an area to be a project area, so as to facilitate cadastral mapping and tenure clarification of that area, to exempt certain land from restrictions imposed by the Local Improvements Act, the Natural Resources Conservation Authority Act and the Town and Country Planning Act and to grant other exemptions regarding land registration and land tax.

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