Development Agencies

Erik Stubkjær

Course: International Land Management
Institute of Real Estate Studies, HUT, Finland

October 2001

Development Agencies

The purpose of this note is to provide an overview of development agencies, departing from the one provided in Holstein: Towards best practice from World Bank experience .. (1996).

1. Multi-lateral development
2. Bi-lateral development, European donors

Multi-lateral development

World Bank Group -> Land & Real Estate -> Research Papers
World Bank Group -> Land Policy Network -> Land Policy Research Center
Asian Development Bank
Inter-American Development Bank -> .. -> Projects -> STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE SANTA CRUZ - PUERTO SUAREZ CORRIDOR, BOLIVIA (PROJECT No. TC-9904003-BO)
United Nations Development Programme UNDP, see e.g. the Urban Management Programme
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements UNCHS (Habitat), Programmes (on Land Management in the wider sense)
FAO, supporting, among others, the Bertinoro Initiative 2000: Enhancing Land Registration and Cadastral Systems in Countries in TransitionI..IV

Ongoing reorganization is reported by the UNDP, in summary of Urban Management Programme. It states:

..jointly executed by the World Bank and UNCHS in collaboration with UNDP.
.. UNCHS as the executing agency, ..World Bank .. associate agency and UNDP .. the key funding agency.
.. UNCHS as the executing agency, while UNDP provides core funding and overall monitoring.

The major financing is provided by the Governments of the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland while Germany, Finland and the United Kingdom provide parallel and in-kind support.

The ongoing Third Phase, .. the Programme’s work into the three thematic areas of poverty, environment and governance issues. Currently 100 activities have been undertaken to date in 50 countries in areas such as urban administration and management, micro finance and access to credit, sustainable infrastructure, land tenure, .., ..

Bi-lateral development, European donors

Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), with a Land Management programme
FINAID
SIDA
DANIDA, the Danish aid organisation now takes an interest in cadastral matters, too, namely as far as concerns Bolivia.

Notice, that the GTZ approach is not primarily economic:

"Problems of Land Tenure and its systems demand answers to questions on

the control of power,
securing and the security of fundamental rights, and
the creation of prerequisites for long-term, productive investments. .."

The GTZ has established Guiding Principles: Land Tenure in Development Cooperation. This very valuable documentation includes a glossary (English / German / French) and literature references, as well as a link-page with reference to FIG sites as well as to FAO.

Erik Stubkjær, est@i4.auc.dk, 2001-10-11; 10-08