A Fit For Purpose Land Cadaster in Mozambique

Abstract

This document intends to validate the Fit-For-Purpose approach developed for the “Terra Segura” program: a combination of technology including mobile and cloud technologies, an harmonized methodology for individual registrations and community delimitations, and other specific artifacts. Results from the tests indicate that by having a well known and disseminated harmonized methodology, collecting and processing data becomes a norm, ensuring error free, accurate, and time saving cadastral information on land use. The mobile application specifically developed for the data collection process increased data quality and reduced processing time and costs. Furthermore, the ability of community members to participate more actively in the registration process, represents perhaps a key factor to successfully conclude this endeavor. Results from these exercises illustrated that Mozambique is in the right path towards the creation of its first National Land Cadastre, but there are still challenges to overcome and this is what this paper intends to illustrate.