The Philippine Land Sector and Its Problems

LAMP 1 - Learning & Innovations

Enabling Environment

          – Six Policy Studies - - Institutional  Arrangements, Fragmented Land Laws and Regulations, Land
             Valuation, Finance and Fees Structure, Forest Boundary Delineation, and Land  Development

          – Philippine LAM Reform Agenda/Strategic Directions

          – Legislative  Reforms in Tenure Security - Land Administration Reform Act (LARA) and
             Amendments to the Free Patent Act (FPA)
          – Legislative Reforms in Real Property Valuation - Valuation Reform Act (VRA) and Real Estate
             Service Act (RESA)

Innovations in Practice

          – Test Site 1: Leyte 
                    • Systematic Adjudication - new approach that reduces title application processing time from
                      an average of 10-36 months to 3-4 months 
                    • Surveying - surveying standards and survey validation procedures
                    • Cadastral Index Mapping
                    • One-Stop-Shop
         
          –Test Site 2: Quezon City 
                    •One-Stop-Shop
                    •National Land Records Management System

Institutional Development and Capacity Building
          –Capacity-building
                    •Competency-standards for various project functions
                    •Training programs for Project staff and stakeholders
          –Increasing the LAM knowledge-base
                    •20 small research grants

LAMP 2 - The Reform Program

Goal
          –Accelerate the process of land administration reform; and 
          –Apply the lessons of LAMP1 in selected areas to support:
                     •progressive expansion of tenure security  and
                     •adoption of approved property valuation standards and procedures through sustainable
                      partnership agreements

Enabling Environment

          – Legislative Reforms in Tenure Security -Amendments of Free Patent Act
          – Legislative Reforms in Real Property Valuation -Real Estate Service Act (RESA) and Valuation
             Reform Act (VRA)
          – Various Sector-Wide Studies
          – Land Sector Development Framework

Innovations in Practice

Pilot Sites for Tenure Security - Surveying, Titling, One-Stop Shop & LAMS 
          –Leyte
          –Bohol
          –Bukidnon
Pilot Sites for Valuation, Taxation & VDIS
          –Naga
          –Iloilo
          –Mandaue

Institutional Development and Capacity Building
          – Technology Transfer - - Project staff, stakeholders & key LAM agencies; and support to
            mainstreaming
          – Sector Capacity-building - - formal education program at tertiary level and formal training program
             for surveying-related occupations
          – Increasing the LAM knowledge-base - - 18 small research grants & publication

Beyond LAMP2: Continuing the Reform

          • Programs initiated under Project conditions (enabling environment, innovations in practice,
            institutional development and capacity building) need to be continued and mainstreamed
          •Land Management Bureau (LMB) to take on this task given its mandate to pursue development
           and adoption of LAM-related policies, systems and standards, including new technologies and
           innovations

The LMB Mission
          •Provide direction through the development of long/medium term strategic plans for the sector and
           the monitoring and evaluation tools to ensure achievement of goals.
          •Provide policies for the efficient and effective administration and management of alienable and
           disposable public lands and ensure compliance to the same.
          •Establish survey standards and guidelines and ensure compliance to the same by all sectors.

Re-defined Mission Elements (April 2010)
          •Policy Development
          •Policy Deployment
          •Sector Support (Information Hub, Networking & Linkaging)