Assessment of Land Administration in Pakistan and the Potential Role of Volunteered Geographic Information

Abstract

Land is one of the four components of production for economic development in any country. Land administration helps the governments to eradicate poverty, protect human rights, and ensure food security. To do so, governments implement land administration systems. This chapter investigates the fitness of the recent initiative of the Government of Pakistan “reforming and modernization of the cadastre” with reference to the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management recently adopted framework for effective land administration (FELA). The results of the study indicate that the ongoing efforts of the Survey of Pakistan regarding the cadastre initiative have few alignments with FELA. Institutional arrangements are present but have a weak policy and technical support to adopt the FELA. The study also argued for the use of volunteered geographic information as a big data for supporting land administration and detailed guidelines also are shared to use the VGI for land administration in Pakistan.