Land Registration in Uzbekistan – Phase 3
| Project location | Uzbekistan |
| Starting date | 30 January 2006 |
| Completion date | 31 December 2007 |
| Client | European Commission TACIS via DHV Consultants |
| Partners | DHV Consultants, Amersfoort - The Netherlands, Gozkomzemgeodescadastre- Tashkent - Uzbekistan |
| Project officer | Sabine Maresch |
| Supervisor | Johan de Meijere |
| Project type | Consulting, institutional development and training |
| Budget | Euro 70,000 |
The Project
The overall goal of the project was to support Uzbekistan authorities wit the transition to a market economy through addressing the establishment of real property rights.
The objective of the project was to support the particular phase in the institutional reform whereby digital registration systems are subject to tendering and delivered to regional offices and prepare staff to start operate these in the land registration procedures.
The more specific objectives of the ITC input was to provide training to central and regional staff for institutional embedding of new legislation and digital registration procedures .
Activities
The activities were part of a EU-TACIS project to support the gradual transition of Uzbekistan to a market economy in which also a land rights can be marketed. Phase III dealt with the delivery of a computer based registration system (hard- and software). Staff of regional offices received and installed the new systems and started operating these systems in their daily routines. Parallel also the legislation was under review to match with these digital procedures.
Lead partner in this project was DHV Consultants from Amersfoort, the Netherlands. ITC was involved as subcontractor of DHV by providing a capacity building expert in land registration, with Tashkent, Uzbekistan as duty station.
The capacity building comprised 3 components:
- A study tour for regional office staff to Lithuania, where a successful transition to a private property registration system had been completed;
- A series of seminars in Tashkent for regional office staff to analyze procedures and plan the use of the new Land Registration system in the daily routines; and
- A series of visits to and workshops in the regions aimed at making the system operational.
UN University School for Land Administration Studies initiative
At the end of the project and as a special opportunity to bring together experiences from different former soviet countries in the transition towards property registration systems, the UNU School for Land Administration Studies with support from the World Bank, IFC, vendors, the project and the counterpart, organized in Tashkent an international workshop: Land Policies, Land Registration and Economic Development, experiences in Central Asian Countries (November 2007) with some 30 participant from different countries from Central Asia and Eastern Europe.