Regularization Program of the Land Registry
The Regularization Program of the Land Registry has been carried out since 2000 with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in order to meet the goal set by the Costa Rican government to modernize its land registry system. At that time, it was estimated that 40% of the total of 1 600 000 mappings of individual land holdings in the country were inaccurate and did not correspond to official legal records. These complications have hampered the country's efforts to attract foreign investment and have specifically been an impediment for foreign retirees wishing to settle in the country. This project incorporated different instances of community participation for its preparation and implementation stages, incorporating in them a gender perspective. By the end of 2011, the titles of 70% of the country's property had been verified and updated.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- unknown
- Co-Governance
- yes
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