Changing land administrationin Haïti

STARTING FROM MAIN ISSUES IN HAITIAN LAND TENURE

• Private property has existed for 4 centuries

• Small private property has legal and historic foundations

• A lot of land documents in public and private archives but became inaccessible for most institutions and people

• Oral knowledge of situation of parcels: there is no cadaster since the end of 18th century

• No reliable data for identification of people, rights and plots

PRIVATE PROPERTY HAS EXISTED FOR 4 CENTURIES

 

• Old public and private archived to restore, digitalize, iand ndex to make access to land information easier

• Legal corpus to build and popularize

Digitalization of land archives

DOCUMENT FROM THE END OF 19TH CENTURY

LE MONITEUR : PRIMARY DATA SOURCE FOR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT STATE LAND

BUILD THE LEGAL CORPUS

Localize plots when we are in a context

of minifundia

3 INTERVENTION SITES

FIELD WORK TO PREPARE ORTHOPHOTOS

DATA BASE AND ORTHOPHOTOS

Baillergeau

Bas peu de Chose

Pernier

FIELD WORK (« COMPLETEMENT »)• La restitution photogrammétrique ne permet de voir que

« presque tout »…

• Certaines limites parcellaires ne sont pas matérialisées et ne pourront être levées qu’avec des informations fournies par une personne connaissant parfaitement la parcelle (propriétaire, occupant, voisin…).

WHY FIELD WORK?

• Have a topographical plan with all needed information to delimitate the plots.

Parcel maps (polygones)Urban map

INEFFICIENT IDENTIFICATION OF PEOPLE, LAND PLOTS AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

How to do field work?How to do field work?

10.04.2

3CIAT - HAITI

A multidisciplinary approachA multidisciplinary approach

•Link anthropology and law

•Anthropology and kinship Genealogy (time dimension)

•Property rights Identify and find the owners (spatial dimension) Titles and practices

First goal :•Understand social practices

Different rights on the same plot

Second goal:•Find information to create the basic land map or Plan Foncier de Base (PFB)

Maps and database

FIVE YEARS TO PRODUCE BASIC TOOLS FOR LAND REFORM

•Information to create the Plan Foncier de Base•Information to move forward institutional rebuilding: new laws, new missions, new equipment and new training