CQU Adjunct Professor of Property Terry Boyd is working as the International Advisor on Education Strategy and Professional Development on the Land Administration and Management Project Stage 2, a joint Philippines and Australia project funded by the World Bank and AusAid.

The LAMP2 project aims to alleviate poverty through secure land tenure and equitable property valuation.

Professor Boyd's education proposal will include the development of both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Property Valuation at Philippine universities, and this may incorporate twinning with Australian universities.

He is working on Component 2 of the project: 'Institutional Development and Capacity Building'.

More details are available via: http://www.phil-lamp.org/

Land administration refers to the processes of recording and disseminating information about the ownership, value and use of land. These processes include mapping and survey, identification of alienable and disposable lands, original and titling, transfer of title, land information and records, taxation, and land valuation.

The present Philippine land administration system was found to have serious legal and institutional defects in both structure and operations but it is proposed to merge all land administration agencies into a single Land Administration Authority (LAA).

Terry Boyd (right) at a Christmas party recently with international and local team members of the LAMP project

Long-term benefits of this reform will include:

- Increased security of land tenure and eradication of fake and spurious titles;
- Convenient registration of land transactions at One-Stop-Shops in strategic regional and district-level locations;
- Faster land document registration with a target of same-day release;
- Cost recovery of land administration services through efficient operations and use of appropriate technology;
- Greater participation of all sectors of society in formal land registration;
- Equal access to, and equitable distribution of, land administration services by demand;
- Improved access to national land information within government and for the public as a result of unified land records;
- Increased public and investor confidence in the integrity of land titles in land markets
- Improved national survey control network and base mapping for national development.