Later this month, the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) plans to launch a land registry solution for urban cities in Afghanistan called goLandRegistry. The project is a collaboration with the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) and hybrid blockchain platform LTO Network.
The lack of proper land management is one of the most prevalent concerns in many Afghan cities. More than 80% of properties in Afghan cities are not registered with municipal or national land authorities, and residents often lack formal ownership documents. UN-Habitat has been helping to register more than 830,000 properties since 2016. The uncertainty of ownership associated with a lack of proper documentation suppresses real estate investment by households and the private sector.
To address the issue, UN-Habit and OICT signed a Memorandum of Understanding in September of 2019 and USAID funded the Afghan project. The initiative is expected to handle at least one million land parcels.
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