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LAND MANAGEMENT IN KENYA PRESENTATION
Group two Valentine Atieno NS/0052/010 James Gitau NS/0056/010 Martin Kung’u NS/0043/010 Michael Mutuku NS/0042/010 Moses Owino NS/0030/010 Judith Torus NS/0031/010 Edwin Kedeng’e NS/0093/010
NPL 407 PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
LAND MANAGEMENT IN KENYA An Overview of
current practices and existing policies on Land
Management in Kenya
Presented by; James Gitau & Martin
Kung’u
RIGHTS OF OWNERSHIP OF LAND
Quan&ty of rights that different tenure systems confer on individuals or groups of individuals
v Leasehold Tenure; right to use land for a
defined period of &me in exchange for the
performance of certain obliga&ons e.g. rent
v Private Land; land lawfully held, managed and
used by an individual or other en&ty under
statutory tenure
RIGHTS OF OWNERSHIP OF LAND CONT’D
v Public Land; all land that is not private land or community land and any other land declared to be
public land by an Act of Parliament.
v Community Land; Land
lawfully held,
managed and used
by a specific
community as shall be defined in the Land Act
RIGHTS OF OWNERSHIP OF LAND CONT’D
LAND MANAGEMENT KEY AREAS v Land Adjudication; intended to ex&nguish
customary tenure and
replace it with statutory tenure
v Land Market operation; deal with the value,
transfer, lease and mortgage of interests in land.
v Inheritance of Land; entails the transmission of land rights from one living person to another or through testate or intestate succession.
v Access to Land by Non-‐Citizens; non-‐citizens can apply for and be allocated land for any permissible use.
v Access to Land for Investment; secure the national interest and confer bene]its to local communities in acquiring investment land
LAND MANAGEMENT KEY AREAS CONT’D
KEY PLAYERS & ACTORS IN LAND MANAGEMENT
District Land Board
Community Land Board
National Land Commission
INSTRUMENTS AND TOOLS USED IN LAND MANAGEMENT
GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS
v Finding and location of sensitive land marks; v Keeping track of the locations of study plots that have been established to monitor forest growth;
v Tracking the migratory paths of species
Application in Environmental Mngt;
Geographic Information Systems It is a system designed
to capture, store,
manipulate,
analyze, manage
and present
all types of geographical
data.
Applica&on of GIS and GPS in Land Management
SEA, EIAs, Environment Audit
Soil and Water
Conserva&on Measures
Forestry
Agriculture
Water Resource
Solid waste Mngt.
Land Mngt. Restora&on
s of Wetlands
Policies in Land Mngt; v Cons&tu&on of Kenya v Land Policy v Physical Planning Act v Environmental management and Coordina&on Act (EMCA, 1999)
v Forest Act v Water Act v County Government Act, 2012 v Land Act, 2012
SWOT analysis on Land Mngt; Strengths
• Decentralized services to the county level
• Existing legal frameworks
• Existence of institutional set-‐up to mainstream cross-‐cutting issues
• Reform-‐oriented leadership.
• Existing infrastructure
Weaknesses
• Uncoordinated and incoherent land laws and policies
• Weak linkage between spatial planning and national development planning
• Uncoordinated and incoherent land laws and policies
• Poor implementation of policies and laws
SWOT analysis on Land Mngt; Opportuni&es
• Poli&cal goodwill • Improved accessibility to donor resources
• Increased demand for land services
• Enhanced spa&al informa&on sharing and collabora&on in the East African region
• On going public sector reforms
Threats • Conflicts in land use paVerns
• Poli&cal interference • Vested interests on land • Insecurity land tenure • Illegal and irregular land alloca&ons and double &tling
• Existence of too many statutes on land administra&on
Recommendation on best land use
management practices
v Implementation of land management
information system
v Modernization of Land registries
v Land cover and land use mapping
v Repeal and harmonization of existing land laws