Establishing a Land policy reform and GPS Technology implementation in Burkina Faso

Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2013 Establishing a Land policy reform and GPS Technology implementation in Burkina Faso Presentation made by Moha EL-AYACHI, IAV Hassan 2, Morocco Paper 447 prepared by Alain Bagré, Burkina Faso - Moha EL-AYACHI, Morocco Tapio Ahomaki, USA

THE OUTLINE The Context Nature of Land administration in Burkina The geodetic Infrastructure in Burkina The new land policy reform for land governance The MCA Rural Land Governance Project The new geodetic reference frame The capacity building The impact of the new land policy Reform

THE CONTEXT Formerly known as Upper Volta Territory KIT, 20211 Location: West Africa Whole Area: 274 200 sqkm Population: 16 Millions Population Growth Annual Rate : 3,1% Density: 42 habitants per sqkm Potential Crop Area : 90 000 sqkm Urbanisation Rate: 23% Nature of the Burkina economy: Agriculture = 40% of the GDP Industry = 18% of the GDP Services = 38% of the GDP GDP per Capita: USD 240 The economic growth and inflation: Economy Growth: 5,7% Inflation rate: 4%

LAND ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM New requirements: Formalize land rights; THE CONTEXT Set up a secure system. Objectives behind: Sustain the continuous use of arable land Achieve promoting the food security; Remove land conflicts.

LAND ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM Land tenure and evolution of land policy systems After the revolution 1983: THE CONTEXT Customary land rights system 1984: RAF Agrarian and Land Reform Single legal category of land: all lands belong to the State Period 1991-1996: RAF Land Reorganization State property lands; Local collective lands for communities; Corporate property for individuals.

LAND ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM Land tenure and evolution of land policy systems Since 2009: Rural Law 34/2009 THE CONTEXT Rural Land Certificate: Grant by local government to individuals Rural Land Charter: Regulating use and access to land Shortcoming of the Land governance Obsolete equipment of surveyors Old fashioned technological methods use Lack of strong professional associations No official standards

THE GEODETIC INFRASTRUCTURE Characteristics of the geodetic infrastructure No unified and inaccurate geodetic frame THE CONTEXT Colonial frame until 1958 12 th parallel frame: 1960 IGB Frame 1 st and 2 nd orders: 1997 Many other local frames created for some surveying works; Low use of GNSS techniques and technology Weakness of the land professional association

THE GEODETIC INFRASTRUCTURE A very weak capacity of the cadastral administration Low land survey capacity THE CONTEXT Lack of high trained technicians Lack of funding for equipment

OBJECTIVES BEHIND LAND POLICY REFORM THE NEW LAND POLICY FRAME Overcome the weaknesses of the land governance Law N 034-2009/AN 16th June 2009 for rural land Land global reform voted 2nd July 2012 Institutional Land administration modernization plan (PIIMD) submitted to Government Rural Land Governance (RLG) Project to improve land tenure security, and promote greater incentives to invest in rural Burkina Faso.

THE MCA PROJECT AND LAND POLICY REFORM THE NEW LAND POLICY FRAME The Agriculture Development (AD) Project: Increase productivity in livestock, Enhance the diversified agriculture value-chains through investments in infrastructure and technical assistance. Support of the Roads Project: Expand and rehabilitate the road network, Promote long term sustainability of road maintenance. Extension of the successful MCC threshold program: focusing on girls primary education

THE MCA PROJECT AND LAND POLICY REFORM THE NEW LAND POLICY FRAME The potential component of the project Modernization of the national geodetic infrastructure: to provide a basis for accurate position determination, the foundation of any functional land information system. To facilitate and reduce cost of land surveying Government regulations: Enacted decrees to establish a new geodetic referential, National single coordinate system for all surveying work, Adopted standards to unify land surveying processes and accuracy 25th April 2012;

THE NEW GEODETIC REFERENCE FRAME THE NEW LAND POLICY FRAME Definition and mission by Law of May 24 th, 2012 New modern national datum based on the CORS Network New datum Computed datum based on the collected data Transformation parameters for conversion of data between the old and new datum ITRF 2008; Map projection: UTM BF Accuracy standards for cadastral and land surveying

THE NEW GEODETIC REFERENCE FRAME THE NEW LAND POLICY FRAME Capacity building and services Provide the IGB staff with technical training required for geodetic static survey campaigns. Training of staff of the IGB, public and Private sector surveyors in the use of the new Infrastructure. Provide Static Data and as well as Real time (Single Point RTK) corrections for both public and private surveyors Enable Burkina Faso to undertake systematic titling of farm lands mainly in rural areas

THE NEW GEODETIC REFERENCE FRAME THE NEW LAND POLICY FRAME Monument building Receiver NetR8 Router Radio transmitter

THE NEW GEODETIC REFERENCE FRAME THE NEW LAND POLICY FRAME Constraints linked to the GPRS signal How to strength the internet signal? The GPRS class 2 internet was lack had affected the reliability of the connections at CORS sites External antenna for the GPRS modems

THE TRAINING DELIVERY PROCESS The life cycle of the training process THE CAPACITY BUILDING ASSESSMENT DESIGN DELIVERY EVALUATION

THE TRAINING DELIVERY PROCESS Categorizing the trainees into THE CAPACITY BUILDING Private sector Public sector 3 Homogeneous teams Deployment of a questionnaire

THE TRAINING DELIVERY PROCESS THE CAPACITY BUILDING 7 weeks (15 Jul. 15 Sep.) 3 teams from public (IGB, DRID, Urbanism, Cadastre) 2 teams from private (Technicians & Engineers) Initial Training Instructor led training Field work

THE TRAINING DELIVERY PROCESS THE CAPACITY BUILDING The outcomes 1 st Outcome: Trainees with abilities to possess basic skills : GNSS positioning: PP & RTK Data collecting using Trimble equipments Data processing using TBC 2 nd Outcome: Trainees with advanced skills : Download CORS data using VRS3Net web Using CORS data for Post Processing Compute baselines, coordinates, quality 3 rd Outcome: DRID staff with basic skills in : CORS site maintenance CORS monitoring: data storing Data streaming: radio, GPRS, internet

THE TRAINING DELIVERY PROCESS The outcomes THE CAPACITY BUILDING 4 th Outcome: IGB staff with abilities to : Administrate the VRS3Net website Maintain the CORS network Monitor data delivery for users via the Net 5 th Outcome: Data Analysis and Datum calculation: BUFAREF: New Datum based ITRF 2008 Modern infrastructure for Land governance Scalable technology: VRS sub-networks 6 th Outcome: Software upgrade: Upgrade the VRS3Net towards Trimble Pivot Ensure the Post installation and maintenance Training the IGB staff for the new platform

THE TRAINING DELIVERY PROCESS Refresher training THE CAPACITY BUILDING THE GOAL Check if the training has achieved the desired results? GET ANSWERS Was the training Quality of documents effective and a and field work? success? What the impact did it have on the improvement of Skills Knowledge Behavior

THE TRAINING DELIVERY PROCESS THE CORE OF EVALUATION THE CAPACITY BUILDING Effectiveness Do the announced objectives have been met Quality Do the documents and field training meet the training goals Skills and attitudes improvement Do the training enhance the trainees skills Will the training have impact on their professional carrier Will the trainees contribute in capacity building development in their institutions

THE TRAINING DELIVERY PROCESS THE CAPACITY BUILDING At a rate of 70% The training was effective and success At a rate of 70% Summary of the Result Modules cover both fundamental and advanced concepts Training materials are readily pertinent reference resource At a rate of 80% The new body of knowledge has improved the development of trainees' skills

THE IMPACT OF THE NEW LAND POLICY The new geodetic infrastructure will allow land boundaries recording in a same coordinate system; Avoid the land ownership overlapping for reducing land conflicts and enhancing social equity and peace; By delivering titles, Burkina can implement rural cadastre at a large scale in the country New scalable technology: Provide ubiquitous real time positioning more accessible for economic activities.

THE IMPACT OF THE NEW LAND POLICY Burkina Faso has built a fundamental infrastructure will underpin economic activities in different spheres of economic activities. A systematic land survey is now possible in a high accuracy by using GPS positionning technology through the CORS over the country Development of a Functional Cadastral Systems: Reducing the costs by taking advantage of the CORS infrastructure Ensure best positioning strategy in PP & RTK Facilitate efficient parcel data collection

CONCLUSION AND LEARNT LESSONS Build a modern CORS network based: On Trimble' CORs technology as a leading industry ; Opportunity for Trimble to set an integrated process for CORS: Installation, Training, Maintenance Deployment of a local efficient infrastructure; Enhanced solution for network maintenance.

CONCLUSION AND LEARNT LESSONS Advantage of the turnkey approach of a single contractor: Single point of contact for the owner and customer, Ensure an ultimate responsibility of the contractor, Delivering a functional network: October 30 th,2012 Maintenance and monitoring by IGB as the official government Agency

CONCLUSION AND LEARNT LESSONS Modernizing the geodetic infrastructure using CORS : Need an availability of 3G wireless internet connection and ADSL, Need the expansion of internet backbone infrastructure in most parts of sub - African Sahara

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