In 2010, FAO began developing the SOLA (Solution for Open Land Administration) open source software to support land administration in a typical district land office. With the endorsement of the Tenure Guidelines in 2012, the SOLA sofware was seen as an immediate means to support countries to implement the Guidelines. This first module explains: What is Open Tenure and how is it useful?

1. UN FAO, Land Tenure Team
COMMUNITY TENURE RECORDING
Training Material
1-0 – Introduction

2. FAO Open Tenure Open Source Software 1-0 Introduction
FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure
“The Voluntary Guidelines on the
Responsible Governance of Tenure of
Land, Fisheries and Forests in the
Context of National Food Security
promote secure tenure rights and
equitable access to land, fisheries
and forests as a means of eradicating
hunger and poverty, supporting
sustainable development and
enhancing the environment”
Find more on FAO website
More about the Tenure Guidelines – Module 1.1
Community Tenure Recording

3. FAO Open Tenure Open Source Software 1-0 Introduction
Helping countries to implement the Tenure Guidelines
In 2010, FAO began developing the SOLA
open source software to support land
administration in a typical district land
office.
With the endorsement of the Tenure
Guidelines in 2012, the SOLA sofware was
seen as an immediate means to support
countries to implement the Guidelines
– SOLA: Solution for Open Land
Administration (SOLA website)
• Customized and deployed in Samoa,
Nigeria, Tonga, Lesotho, Samoa
• SOLA software developers trained in each
country
– Open Tenure for community tenure
recording released in early 2015

4. FAO Open Tenure Open Source Software 1-1 Introduction
WHAT IS OPEN TENURE?
Cloud
Server

5. FAO Open Tenure Open Source Software 1-0 Introduction
Helping countries to implement the Tenure Guidelines
Open Tenure is an Enabling Technology for the implementation of
the Tenure Guidelines in that it:
• Identifies and safeguards tenure rights not recorded by formal
land administration
• Engages with all tenure right holders in tenure governance
processes
• Exercises self-governance for communities with customary
tenure systems
• Protects against unauthorized use of land, fisheries and forest
resources
• Ensures citizen and community involvement

6. FAO Open Tenure Open Source Software 1-0 Introduction
Open Tenure is a mobile application to record tenure
relationships
• Works on Android and iOS mobile
devices
• Allows communities to record their
views of significant tenure
relationships
• Records tenure details, maps property
boundaries, collects photos (of
documents and the property) to
support tenure right claims, describes
ownership (including husband and wife
joint ownership)
• Field tests in Cambodia and Guatemala
in 2015
• Implemented in Uganda & Nigeria

7. FAO Open Tenure Open Source Software 1-0 Introduction
Open Tenure involves entirely digital recording
• Eliminates need to manage
paper records in first time
tenure recording
• Minimal land administration
and Information Technology
expertise and skills required to
use
• Claims uploaded to a
Community Server for display,
review and community
moderation

8. FAO Open Tenure Open Source Software 1-0 Introduction
Monks Community Forest, Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia.
Community Recorders Training

9. FAO Open Tenure Open Source Software 1-0 Introduction
Monks Community Forest, Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia
Community Recorders capture tenure information

10. FAO Open Tenure Open Source Software 1-0 Introduction
Open Tenure implementation - Kasese, Uganda
Recorders capture supporting tenure documents

11. FAO Open Tenure Open Source Software 1-1 Introduction
VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE
OF TENURE
MODULE 1.1
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