How to Make the Cadastre Succeed in the Les Cayes Jurisdiction: The Collaborations Required

This paper's contribution is to treat the cadastre as a coordination problem rather than a surveying one. Its list of land actors is the operative content: the Direction Générale des Impôts, the notaries, the surveyors, ONACA and the courts. Each of these holds a fragment of the evidence about a parcel, each answers to a different chain of authority, and a cadastre only succeeds if their records can be made to agree. Presented at Les Cayes on 18 August 2015 alongside the paper on a cadastral system adapted to Haiti and the Camp-Perrin land-security case, it grounds the abstract reform question in one jurisdiction where the work was actually being attempted. It also anticipates the logic of the four-instrument land-law package the CIAT would later send to Parliament, which legislates for exactly these actors: the cadastre administration, land registration, the notaries and the surveyors.