ABSTRACT
A key component of land administration is a reliable and affordable land information system. Nevertheless, estimates on land information coverage, cadastres, or land registries suggest that in developing countries 70% of the area is not covered by any formal land registration system (Lemmen et al. 2009; Lemmen 2010; United Nations Human Settlements Programme/Global Land Tool Network 2012; Zevenbergen et al. 2013). Enemark et al. (2014) even argued that 75% of the world’s population do not have access to formal land rights systems. The majority of these people are the poor, women, and vulnerable groups who have very limited access to land (Zevenbergen et al. 2013). This is especially prevalent in large informal settlements and slums that result from rapid urbanization processes without the presence of a formal land sector ready to deal with that. In this regard, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (2008a) reports that the global slum population is expected to increase to 1.4 billion in the coming years.
