There is a growing use of geographic information systems (GIS) within the public sector in differ... more There is a growing use of geographic information systems (GIS) within the public sector in different countries. They require a sizeable investment in terms of finances, information and communication technology (ICT) and human resources while they are largely financed by public funds. In part one of this two-part article, a method of evaluating GIS is considered.
Land is the most crucial resource in any nation especially due to its scarcity in wake of unlimit... more Land is the most crucial resource in any nation especially due to its scarcity in wake of unlimited needs and wants by mankind. Land has been a major resource of conflict due to the need for countries to expand their territories. Even, nowadays land disputes still exist between traditional leaders and municipalities, individuals and cooperations. This is because land is viewed as a social, cultural and economic resource. The registration of land is thus of importance so that rights to land are well defined and are protected. These rights give information on who owns what land and the type of land ownership that exists. This is referred to as land tenure security that is achieved through secure land rights. These secure land rights are then used as a basis financing land related projects by financial institutions where land and other real property and mostly immovable property are used as collateral. In communal areas, land registration can in principle, improve agricultural producti...
Coping with rapid urbanisation and the impacts of climate change requires effective land manageme... more Coping with rapid urbanisation and the impacts of climate change requires effective land management. Quality land information is essential for this. A land information infrastructure is a collaborative and coordinated initiative aimed at providing land information from different organisations, such as municipalities, government departments and private companies, to diverse user communities. A land information infrastructure is complex, spanning information streams through many organisations and technical systems, and presenting challenges for managing and monitoring the production of land information. In the manufacturing field, a supply chain refers to the stream of activities from the initial source to the delivery of end products to customers, and supply chain management is directed at optimising the creation of the products of such a chain. The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model is widely used for analysing supply chain processes in order to quantify and improve prod...
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are being implemented in the public sector because of thei... more Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are being implemented in the public sector because of their potential to improve service delivery. The impact of GIS is however, often not measured in practice. This study investigates the current GIS evaluation practices in the context of the public sector of Uganda. This encompasses the various methodologies employed in practice in GIS evaluation. This research adopts an interpetivist stance with an object to understand, learn and explain the evaluation and not only to perform the evaluation. The findings reflect that 40% of the surveyed organisations are evaluating their GIS. Questionnaire surveys, stakeholder needs assessment and project evaluations are the common evaluation methods. Lack of evaluation is attributed to human resource and financial constraints. This study reflects that GIS evaluation is still a concept under development in the context of the public sector of Uganda. The evaluations carried out in practice are mostly informal...
Disaster Risk Management requires up-to-date land information availed through the cadastre. Infor... more Disaster Risk Management requires up-to-date land information availed through the cadastre. Informal settlements are often located in disaster prone areas. Having up-to-date land information about these informal settlements is one step towards disaster preparedness and building community resilience in the highway towards sustainable development. This study designs conceptual models using unified modelling language (UML) for an informal cadastre for recording land information pertinent to disaster risk management based on a South African case study. The results demonstrate that land tenure relationships in informal settlements can be mapped using the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM). The importance of disaster information is that it provides communities with information to tackle disasters and improve in their capabilities to handle them. With such information, the disaster risk can be minimised. This study is aligned to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 3. The linkage betw...
The continuum of rights model developed by UN-Habitat describes different forms of relationships ... more The continuum of rights model developed by UN-Habitat describes different forms of relationships that humankind has with land. These rights range from the informal to formal continuum. It is the less formal rights that are of major concern especially in the developing world as they are in most cases neither officially registered nor documented in customary areas. This brings forth various land administration problems to include difficulty in managing natural disasters and land resources. The absence of land registration in customary tenure areas has resulted in research in land titling as a method to move informal tenure arrangements to the formal domains based on the assumption that land titling improves land tenure security. Whether or not land titling is working has varied opinions in academic literature. The aim of this study is to determine factors influencing the misalignment between land titling, land tenure security and the improvement of the quality of life of communities. The second aim is to design a land titling framework that addresses these misalignments. This study reviews literature on land titling with land tenure security as the unit of analysis. We critically analyse the relationship between land titling and land tenure security including the extent of this relationship based on a systematic literature review. Based on issues in land titling for customary areas presented in academic literature, a framework for land titling is proposed based on the systems approach methodology. The framework addresses sustainable development goals 1 and 2 as it focuses on improving rural livelihoods through tenure security and community empowerment. Land tenure reform is a public infrastructure and should not be implemented in isolation of other developmental activities. The land titling policy framework needs to be aligned with the development goals of national and spatial development frameworks to ensure sustainability.
There is a growing use of geographic information systems (GIS) within the public sector in differ... more There is a growing use of geographic information systems (GIS) within the public sector in different countries. They require a sizeable investment in terms of finances, information and communication technology (ICT) and human resources while they are largely financed by public funds. In part one of this two-part article, a method of evaluating GIS is considered.
Land is the most crucial resource in any nation especially due to its scarcity in wake of unlimit... more Land is the most crucial resource in any nation especially due to its scarcity in wake of unlimited needs and wants by mankind. Land has been a major resource of conflict due to the need for countries to expand their territories. Even, nowadays land disputes still exist between traditional leaders and municipalities, individuals and cooperations. This is because land is viewed as a social, cultural and economic resource. The registration of land is thus of importance so that rights to land are well defined and are protected. These rights give information on who owns what land and the type of land ownership that exists. This is referred to as land tenure security that is achieved through secure land rights. These secure land rights are then used as a basis financing land related projects by financial institutions where land and other real property and mostly immovable property are used as collateral. In communal areas, land registration can in principle, improve agricultural producti...
Coping with rapid urbanisation and the impacts of climate change requires effective land manageme... more Coping with rapid urbanisation and the impacts of climate change requires effective land management. Quality land information is essential for this. A land information infrastructure is a collaborative and coordinated initiative aimed at providing land information from different organisations, such as municipalities, government departments and private companies, to diverse user communities. A land information infrastructure is complex, spanning information streams through many organisations and technical systems, and presenting challenges for managing and monitoring the production of land information. In the manufacturing field, a supply chain refers to the stream of activities from the initial source to the delivery of end products to customers, and supply chain management is directed at optimising the creation of the products of such a chain. The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model is widely used for analysing supply chain processes in order to quantify and improve prod...
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are being implemented in the public sector because of thei... more Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are being implemented in the public sector because of their potential to improve service delivery. The impact of GIS is however, often not measured in practice. This study investigates the current GIS evaluation practices in the context of the public sector of Uganda. This encompasses the various methodologies employed in practice in GIS evaluation. This research adopts an interpetivist stance with an object to understand, learn and explain the evaluation and not only to perform the evaluation. The findings reflect that 40% of the surveyed organisations are evaluating their GIS. Questionnaire surveys, stakeholder needs assessment and project evaluations are the common evaluation methods. Lack of evaluation is attributed to human resource and financial constraints. This study reflects that GIS evaluation is still a concept under development in the context of the public sector of Uganda. The evaluations carried out in practice are mostly informal...
Disaster Risk Management requires up-to-date land information availed through the cadastre. Infor... more Disaster Risk Management requires up-to-date land information availed through the cadastre. Informal settlements are often located in disaster prone areas. Having up-to-date land information about these informal settlements is one step towards disaster preparedness and building community resilience in the highway towards sustainable development. This study designs conceptual models using unified modelling language (UML) for an informal cadastre for recording land information pertinent to disaster risk management based on a South African case study. The results demonstrate that land tenure relationships in informal settlements can be mapped using the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM). The importance of disaster information is that it provides communities with information to tackle disasters and improve in their capabilities to handle them. With such information, the disaster risk can be minimised. This study is aligned to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 3. The linkage betw...
The continuum of rights model developed by UN-Habitat describes different forms of relationships ... more The continuum of rights model developed by UN-Habitat describes different forms of relationships that humankind has with land. These rights range from the informal to formal continuum. It is the less formal rights that are of major concern especially in the developing world as they are in most cases neither officially registered nor documented in customary areas. This brings forth various land administration problems to include difficulty in managing natural disasters and land resources. The absence of land registration in customary tenure areas has resulted in research in land titling as a method to move informal tenure arrangements to the formal domains based on the assumption that land titling improves land tenure security. Whether or not land titling is working has varied opinions in academic literature. The aim of this study is to determine factors influencing the misalignment between land titling, land tenure security and the improvement of the quality of life of communities. The second aim is to design a land titling framework that addresses these misalignments. This study reviews literature on land titling with land tenure security as the unit of analysis. We critically analyse the relationship between land titling and land tenure security including the extent of this relationship based on a systematic literature review. Based on issues in land titling for customary areas presented in academic literature, a framework for land titling is proposed based on the systems approach methodology. The framework addresses sustainable development goals 1 and 2 as it focuses on improving rural livelihoods through tenure security and community empowerment. Land tenure reform is a public infrastructure and should not be implemented in isolation of other developmental activities. The land titling policy framework needs to be aligned with the development goals of national and spatial development frameworks to ensure sustainability.
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