timor leste land law program
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Timor Leste Land Law Program. Applied research and legislative drafting. Quadrilingual Glossary. Institutional Strengthening with UNTL. Related Capacity Building (LPU, UNTL, MOJ). East Timor - Background. Urban Properties Occupation and dispensation of former Indonesian residences ; - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Timor Leste Land Law Program
•Applied research and legislative drafting
•Institutional Strengthening with UNTL
•Related Capacity Building (LPU, UNTL, MOJ)
•Quadrilingual Glossary
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East Timor - Background
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Urban Properties– Occupation and
dispensation of former Indonesian residences;
– Destruction of housing stock
– Returnees;– Claims and disputes;– Informal land market;– Constraints to investment– Gender
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Rural Properties– Areas still occupied by East
Timorese transmigrants;– Dispute resolution; – Legitimacy/availability of
evidence for use in claims and disputes;
– How is the informal land market operating currently;
– Ability of Adat systems to resolve conflicts within and between communities, and vis a vis large commercial interests, incl. gender.
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Key Laws• Land dispute
mediation;• Land/title
registration;• Land title restitution,
conversion of formal & traditional rights
• Compliance with ET constitution by foreign owners
Other relevant laws:• State property admin.•Cadastre system
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Core Laws: Dispute Mediation, Restitution
Dispute Mediation (local in-place processes): • Who, how, legitimacy, authority, appeal;• Evidence; • Groups: within, between (incl. migrant);• Interface between local and state systems
(LPU role); legal interface – evidence;• Displaced persons (individuals) access to
mediation systems;• Costs, compare to state system.
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Restitution Law(requisites & procedures to determine who is legally entitled to
ownership & other use rights – Post occupation & conflict)• Local System (select topics):
– Who distributes land-use rights;– Does freehold, leasehold, expropriation exist;– Nature of boundaries;– Rights possessed by transmigrasi/IDPs (from
point of view of both local communities and dislocatees;
– What elements determine legitimate use / possession rights;
Core Laws:
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Core Laws – Restitution Law, cont.
• State System:– Portuguese & Indonesian title regiems
– rights connected to each type of title.• All Tenure Systems, Urban & Rural:
– Means of proof/evidence accepted in relation to property rights – availability, legitimacy;
– Seperable rights – surface rights, buildings, tree, crop, etc.
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Where We Are Currently
Legislative Themes Research Input NeededState Property Administration Aug 30, 03Cadastral System End Oct, 03Mediation (key, core) Oct/Nov, 03Land/Title Registration (key) End Feb, 04Restitution (key, core) End April, 04Compliance with ET Constitution
by Foreign Owners (key) End April, 04
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Other Project Activities
• UNTL Research Center
• University Consortium
• Capacity Building– Legal (LPU, MOJ)– Research (UNTL,
proj employees• Glossary
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Post-Conflict Land Tenure Reform ‘Best Practice’?
(Michael Brown)
• Land tenure always a primary issue after conflict
• East Timor case as an approach to post-conflict land tenure - reform– Follows on Mozambique (success);– Academic research;– Deals with ‘study’ in a different way;– Does the East Timor case hold potential as an
example for other countries?
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Potential Follow-on Work in ET
– Land Law Dissemination– Enabling Environment – Investment– Irrigation Schemes & Smallholders /
Largeholders• (IU Workshop)
– Coffee Lands and Smallholders / Largeholders
– Land Tenure and Parks and People Issues– University Consortium
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Land Tenure Work at Indiana University
WORKSHOP IN POLITICAL THEORY AND POLICY ANALYSIS http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop
Elinor Ostrom – extensive experience working on common property problems, esp. irrigation-Asia, forest resources, fisheries, grazing resources-Africa, global environmental change.Focus on institutional design principles.
A primary, longstanding connection – Jaime Thompson
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Land Tenure Work at Indiana University, cont.
Department of GeographyAgriculture & Land Tenure • Poverty and property rights in the developing
world: not as simple as wewould like. Land Use Policy
• The relationship between indigenous pastoralist resource tenure and state tenure in Somalia. GeoJournal
• Agroforestry, reforestry and the carbon problem: the role of land and tree tenure. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
• Restocking refugee pastoralists in the Horn of Africa. Disasters
• Nomadic pastoralism and irrigated agriculture in Somalia: utilization of existing land use patterns in designs for multiple access of "high potential" areas of semi-arid Africa. GeoJournal
• Land tenure and identity change in postwar Mozambique. GeoJournal
• Land registration, tenure security, credit use and investment in the Shabelle region of Somalia. In: Searching for Tenure Security in Africa. The World Bank and Kendall\Hunt Publishing, With Roth & Barrows
Post-Conflict Land Tenure• Post-conflict recovery of African agriculture: The role
of 'critical resource' tenure. Ambio • Land tenure and legal pluralism in the peace process.
Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research • Local land tenure in the peace process. Peace Review
• Postwar land dispute resolution: land tenure and the peace process in Mozambique. International Journal of World Peace.
• The role of land conflict and land conflict resolution in a peace process: Mozambique’s return to agriculture. Refuge
• Refugee resettlement on the Horn of Africa: the integration of host and refugee land use patterns. Land Use Policy
• Land dispute resolution in Mozambique: evidence and institutions of agroforestry technology adoption. In: The Role of Property Rights and Collective Action in Developing Countries, Johns Hopkins University Press
• Resource Sharing: small holders and pastoralists in Shalambood, Lower Shabelle Region. In: The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War. Westview Press
• Somali rural property rights: whither the future? Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society.
• Resource tenure issues in the resettlement of Sudan's displaced agriculturalists. Journal of Northeast African Studies.
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Land Tenure & USAID
• History of land tenure work at USAID, focus on “the study” – all land tenure situations are unique…..
• Current caution regarding studies at USAID• Potential utility for a “package” or “best
practice” approach? (post-conflict, refugee, investment, agricultural development & food security, institutions & governance, natural resources, etc?
• In addition to the short-term “advisor” approach