Land Registration and Property Valuation Project

The development objective of the Land Registration and Property Valuation Project for Moldova is to improve the quality and transparency of the land administration and property valuation systems.The project consists of four components. 1) First Property Registration will support the first registration of public and private land in Moldova and strengthen the data quality for records already in the land register. This component will also organize mandatory public displays and public awareness campaigns to ensure citizens are engaged and aware of the procedures, activities and benefits during first property registration.Additionally, a comprehensive Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) will be set up at Cadastru to monitor feedback received from beneficiaries and provide a formal avenue to appeal. The component consists of three subcomponents: (i) systematic registration of private land—including implementation of public displays, public awareness campaigns and a grievance mechanism; (ii) systematic registration of public land; and (iii) improvement of the quality and reliability of the cadastre data; 2) Property valuation will support extending mass valuation to incorporate those properties not currently included and to carry out selected revaluation of properties to help improve the transparency of the property market and keep the property valuation system current and usable through inter alia: (i) initial valuation of properties; (ii) revaluation of properties which have not been revalued since 2008; and (iii) setting up of a property valuation infrastructure and an independent appeals system to challenge valuations; 3) Land administration system strengthening will support the strengthening of the land sector in Moldova by facilitating policy dialogue and conducting a review of the existing institutional and regulatory frameworks, proposing improvement where possible. It will also encourage a development of simplified business processes and modernization of cadastre...