Project Name

International Best Practices In Public Real Estate Administration

Beneficiary

Ministry of National Public Property (MBN) of Chile

Project Site

Santiago, Chile

Funding Source

Evergreen Funds, IADB

Implementation Time

January 2003 - April 2003

Project Objectives/Components

• Assessed the strengths and weaknesses of the existing national policies and systems for public real estate administration,
• Identified and described international best practices in the public real estate administration field, focusing on the transferability of solutions to the Chilean case,
• Suggested policy alternatives to improve the present state of Chile 's public real estate administration and its management tools, and
• Supported the government of Chile with the preparation of a workshop that will bring together key local stakeholders and international experts to discuss and reach an agreement on the best policy alternatives to be applied in Chile . Design in more detail the selected alternative.

Project Tasks

• Identified and enumerated public real estate and which agencies are responsible for the collection of these data
• Analyzed the conditions and current designs of cadastral and information systems, data formats, update cycles, scales and processes used by each agency collecting cadastral data, and a level of current operational funding and cost recovery strategies
• Identified currently employed by ministries in terms of how real estate is identified, tracked, and managed, and
• Identified areas of inefficiency and where best use of cadastral information systems, including geo-referenced, might occur.

Implementation Team

Urban Institute
International Land Systems (ILS), Inc.