Promoting Land Use and Spatial Planning

for Disaster Risk Reduction

Rolando Ocampo

Co-Chair, UN-GGIM

National Institute of Statistics and Geography

Mexico.

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

26 May 2017

Cancun, Mexico

Global Land Challenges • Limited coverage of legal or secure land tenure

– only 30% globally, as low as 3% in some countries

• Complexity of land rights, claims and records

– e.g. customary, statutory, informal

• 70% - 75% of global populatio ’s relatio ship to land is not

documented, recorded and/or recognized

Conventional systems cannot deliver tenure security at scale

(UN-Habitat/Global Land Tool Network)

SDG indicators cover specific population groups & other disaggregated elements specified in the

targets

Adequate monitoring requires a consistent, comparable and current understanding of not just

the what a d the who ut also the where

As with disaster monitoring, improved land administration benefits from consistent, integrated

& timely data—including from administrative records, Big Data, geospatial & Earth observations.

Geospatial information can improve land administration,

disaster risk assessment & SDG monitoring

Significant gap between countries

Lack of global decision-making

Mandate of Governments

High level coordination

National and Global policy frameworks

Geospatial capacity building

Address global issues as a community

Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development

Global fundamental geospatial data themes.

Legal and policy frameworks.

Standards and Technical Specifications.

Integration of geospatial and statistical information.

Land Administration and Management

Global geodetic reference frame

Institutional arrangements; Shared guiding principles

Disaster Risk Reduction

UN-GGIM

UN-GGIM

• Established in 2011 as a committee of country

experts on geospatial information under UN-

ECOSOC

• Mandate strengthened in 2016, to consolidate

geospatial issues and activities in the UN

Global Agenda (WG)

One of its main objectives is sharing tools and

policy experiences on use of GI to address key

global challenges

Objectives

• Play a leading role at the policy level by raising political awareness and highlighting the

importance of the need for timely and fit for purpose land administration and

management;

• Encourage the use of geospatial information tools and systems to improve the legal

certainty of all citizens with respect to the relation between people and land

Functions

• Provide a forum for coordination and dialogue among global experts

• Propose work plans informed by broad global consultation

• Address governance, data management, institutional and technology adoption and

sustainability issues

• Undertake work that is able to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals and

other areas as, access to land, property rights, ownership, land degradation, rapid

urbanization, and climate change, in coordination with other expert entities.

UN-GGIM

Expert Group on Land Administration and Management

Land administration and the SDGs

SDG’ a d La d Ad i istratio s

UN-GGIM EG-LAM

Direct linkages with SDG indicators

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Indicator 1.4.2 Proportion of total adult population with secure tenure rights to land, with

legally recognized documentation and who perceive their rights to land as secure, by sex

and by type of tenure

Need to ensure geo-referencing of statistics and administrative records

Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Indicator 5.a.1

(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over

agricultural land, by sex; and

(b) (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of

tenure

Indicator 5.a.2 Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary

law) guarantees o e ’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control

UN-GGIM EG-LAM

Direct linkages with SDG indicators

Need to ensure geo-referencing of statistics and administrative records

Partnerships

• Global, national, community & professional

based initiatives

• Synergies through shared objectives

• Key role of the private sector & civil society

Partnerships

Private sector partnerships (OGC)

UN-GGIM Partnerships with the private sector

• Non-profit, voluntary intergovernmental organization specialized on

Earth Observations to inform policy decisions on key global issues;

• Aim: to leverage resources from 105 member countries and 109

organizations for better planning and policy-making;

• Multiple applications of satellite-

based land cover/land cover

change to evaluate progress

towards various SDG targets;

• Benefits of land cover

information for implementation

of the SDGs, disaster & climate

change monitoring;

Land cover & land cover change

Goals:

• Informing policy initiatives, such as the SDGs, at the sub-national, national and

global levels;

• Operational systems for LC products to meet diverse user needs;

• Easy access to existing Land Cover and LC change information, so users can find

the data that best meets their needs

Leadership in GEO:

Projected actions:

• Develop shared tools to facilitate validation of LC datasets to achieve standard

accuracy assessments

• Generate Land Cover products, using recent advancements in science and

technology—including:

A community-oriented global Land Cover portal

A collaborative information service platform

A coordinated LC reference database

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Indicator 11.3.1 Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate (Tier

II, Potential Custodian agency: UN-Habitat, Other: UNEP)

11.3 By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity

for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and

management in all countries

• The value of satellite-based EO data to monitor land cover change is acknowledged

in the stakeholder comments.

• UNEP proposed to contribute to this indicator through work with GEO-GEOSS on

land conversion.

Sustainable Urbanization

Growth of Jakarta, Indonesia. Vegetation appears in red, and urban areas appear light green.

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• Indicator 15.3.1 Percentage of land that is degraded over total land area (Tier III, Potential Custodian agency: UNCCD, Other: FAO, UNEP)

• Proposed sub-indicators:

o Land cover

o Land productivity

o Soil organic carbon

• According to UNCCD la d o er a d la d o er change have multiple applications for evaluating progress towards various SDG targets and give a first i di atio of la d degradatio

15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil,

including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to

achieve a land degradation-neutral world

Land degradation

Land Degradation Index (LDI) in continental Portugal from 2000 to 2010

33% of land is

degraded,

while 2% shows

active degradation

trends

Partnerships in support of common goals

• UNGGIM Forum – Cities of the future: Smart, Resilient and Sustainable

(Kunming, China, 10-12 May 2017)

• Third meeting of the Working Group on Geospatial Information - IAEG on SDG

indicators (Kunming, China, 8-10 May 2015)

Conclusions

• Integrated data, including Geospatial Information and Earth

observations, can help achieve more organized and effective land

management schemes, as well as SDG and disaster monitoring;

• Better information (location + rights), results in better decision-

making and in increased life security, as an enabler for social and

economic development;

• Direct contribution to good governance, effective justice & rule

of law;

• Partnerships are key: cooperation is needed between different

communities in pursuit of common goals.

Geospatial needs