Project profile — Computerized Land Registry in Haiti

• Haiti (100.00%)

• Public sector policy and administrative management:
Public sector policy and administrative management (15110) (10.00%)
Domestic Revenue Mobilisation (15114) (30.00%)
Legal and judicial development (15130) (10.00%)
Democratic participation and civil society (15150) (20.00%)
Media and free flow of information (15153) (20.00%)
• Other Social Infrastructure And Services: Statistical capacity building (16062) (10.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (principal objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (significant objective)

The project aims to secure private land titles registered in the handwritten registers centralized at the Direction Générale des Impôts in Port-au-Prince, in Haiti. The implementation of a computerized land registry system aims to facilitate the registration of notarial records and the search and identification of land titles by the general public. The activities of the project include: 1) digitizing and indexing over one million pages; 2) integrating the data in a database; 3) archiving manuscripts in a safe environment. The direct beneficiaries are the staff already in place, the national institutions responsible of land reform in Haiti, as well as 700 notaries and 600 surveyors operating on Haitian territory.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) private land titles in Haiti, centralized in Port-au-Prince (estimated at 1 million pages) are digitized and secured; (2) research and indexing private land titles for a computerized national land register is completed; (3) capacities of stakeholders have increased : mainly the government, 700 notaries and 600 surveyors; and (4) Institutions are able to implement the computerized system according to the law and regulations in the land tenure sector.

Among the results achieved until the end of the project (September 2021): (1) digitization of 3,389 handwritten land title registers; (2) 129 employees (45 women) trained within the General Directorate of Taxes in digitization and archiving; (3) seven offices refurbished, including eight archive rooms for restoration, conservation, and digitization operations; (4) 1,445,119 pages digitized; (5) transcription of more than 118,762 deeds (from 1980 to 2016) in the registers; and (6) 115 land professionals (22 women) trained in the new computerized registration procedures.

• Proactive disclosure