Evaluating Land Administration System From The Perspective Of Good Governance

Currently, there is an urgent need of evaluating land administration system from theperspective of good governance. Since the rapid urbanization seriously challenges the capacityof city, the continued existence of informal settlement has become a long-term problem inNepal. However, existing land administration system cannot effectively resolve the problem,and the informal settlers are suffering from fear of eviction as well as natural disaster and poorliving condition. Land administration system has been questioned that whether it is stillqualified enough to fulfil its duty properly. One possible reason for the ineffective performancemight be the lack of application of good governance within the system. Thus, this research isaimed to evaluate land administration system from the perspective of good governance in orderto find out whether the system is complied with the principles of good governance and toidentify the hidden weaknesses inside the system.In order to carry out the evaluation, both desk research and empirical research has beenapplied. Governance within land administration system is generally evaluated by taking a seriesof indicators and weighing their scale to produce an aggregate measure. Firstly, the existingindex and guideline of good governance has been studied to extract the principles and indicatorsfor developing the evaluation framework. Secondly, individual interview and questionnairesurvey had been conducted with different stakeholders during the fieldwork in KathmanduValley. The primary and secondary data extracted from the responses of participants andliteratures has been analysed for verifying the scale of indicators. The result of evaluationshows that16out of27indicators are identified as the scale―very dissatisfied‖. It implies thatgood governance is hardly recognized within current land administration system. There is still ahuge gap needs to be improved from the aspects of equity, accountability, transparency, publicparticipation, and effectiveness and efficiency. Further improvement strategies for filling thegap has been proposed then.