Kathmandu,
Nov. 27, 2015:
The
international workshop on 'Role of land professional and spatial data
infrastructure in disaster risk reduction' organized in the context of post-2015
Nepal earthquake called for proper land use plan, as a pre-disaster precaution
as well as post-disaster action was necessary for secured settlement to fulfill
the norms of 'Build Back Better'.
"Proper
land management activities like appropriate land allocation, land readjustment
and security of land tenure are very important for rescue, rehabilitation and
reconstruction in post-disaster setting," the three-day conference, which concluded
in the capital on Saturday with a 6-point resolution, agreed.
"Therefore,
the workshop recommends the government to formulate, enact and implement a
comprehensive land use policy which specifically addresses the issue."
It has also recommended designing a
multi-stakeholder and action-oriented framework adopting international land
governance framework in line with the World Bank's land governance assessment
framework which ensures clear action points, shared responsibility among
stakeholders, implementation time line and monitoring system.
The conference has cited the lack or weakness of
policies and institutional arrangements as the key hurdles on humanitarian
response during a disaster and its aftermath.
Likewise, it has urged to make the land administration
system pro-poor, gender-friendly and responsive to marginalized group of people
in the society, and suggested the government to adopt the concept of
fit-for-purpose land administration.
The conference has put an immense focus on the
importance of geospatial data in the pre- and post-disaster and said that Open
Street Mapping and Crowd Sourcing could be adopted for rapid acquisition of geo-information.
"The workshop recommends adopting appropriate
tools and techniques for accurate and timely geo-information acquisition,
procession, visualization and dissemination."
Similarly, it suggested the government to carry out
capacity building activities for the professionals.
It said that the government should carry out
activities like academic studies and research, skill enhancing, project works
and tutorials, experience sharing events such as workshops, seminars, and
exhibition for continuous professional development.
Addressing
the concluding ceremony of the conference, Minister for Land Reform and
Management, Ram Kumar Subba, said that the government was sensitive enough
towards reconstruction of the infrastructures damaged by the earthquake in
April and May.
He
stated that the recommendations of the conference would be useful for the
government in its reconstruction drive.
The conference was
organized by the Nepal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Nepal Remote Sensing
and Photometric Society with assistance from Ministry of Land Reform and
Management, Department of Survey and Land Management Training Centre.
According to the
organizer, the conference was a
joint event of FIF Commission 2 and ISPRS Technical Commission IV: Working
Group IV.
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