Multipurpose Cadaster Project

The objective of Multipurpose Cadaster Project for Colombia is to establish the multipurpose cadaster in the selected municipalities to strengthen tenure security and provide access to cadaster information. Project has 4 components. (1) Institutional Strengthening component will strengthen the capacity of national land administration institutions involved in the implementation of the multipurpose cadaster and land tenure formalization and enable institutions to create a land administration system able to provide nationwide land administration services in a permanent and effective manner. (2) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development and strengthening of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI, Infraestructura Colombiana de Datos Espaciales - ICDE)component will support the development of the necessary ICT infrastructure of Geographic Institute Agustin Codazzi, Superintendent of Notaries and Registries and National Land Agency for the implementation of the multipurpose cadaster and the integration of the parcel-based cadaster and registry core datasets and strengthen the existing Colombian NSDI. (3) Implementation and maintenance of the multipurpose cadaster component will implement a multipurpose cadaster system that strengthens land tenure security, increases tax and fee revenue, and serves as an information resource for municipal and land use planning. (4) Project management component will support the implementing entities with coordination and management activities. This includes support for administrative procedures, financial management, procurement, monitoring and evaluation, safeguards supervision, and annual audits. This Component will also support building capacity of the entities to contract, manage and administer such a project.