(2012) Who Does What in Land Tenure and Property Rights Administration in Haiti?
Summary — This worksheet maps land-administration tasks to Haitian institutions and professional actors.
Key Findings
- Defines a legal or institutional rule for Haiti's land and territorial-governance system.
- Provides primary-source evidence from Le Moniteur or a public legal repository.
- Supports research on cadastre, registration, land use, territorial planning, agricultural land or public land.
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This worksheet maps land-administration tasks to Haitian institutions and professional actors. The text is part of the legal and institutional framework used to understand land administration, territorial planning, property registration, rural land use, or state land governance in Haiti.
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WHO DOES WHAT IN LAND TENURE AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
ADMINISTRATION IN HAITI?
Exercise - Using the list of actors below, write the number of who is responsible for each one of the
land administration tasks described. Each actor can perform more than one of the tasks, but also none
of the tasks described below.
LAND ADMINISTRATION TASKS – ANSWER KEY
1. Responsible for collecting, processing and updating geospatial information and for managing the
network of Continuously Operating Reference stations (HaitiPOS). CNIGS – Centre
National de l’Information Geo-Spatiale
2. Responsible for overall land policy including issues of land tenure, real property rights, land
administration, land use and land legislation. CIAT – Comite Interministeriel
d’Amenagement du Territoire
3. Responsible for creating and keeping the records of individual property titles, for collecting
taxes, registering mortgages for the State or the communes, and administering land
sequestrations. Conservation Fonciere (within Direction Generale des Impots)
4. Responsible for receiving demands of lease of Private State Land and for managing these leases;
surveying State Land and parcels that are the object of a donation by Haiti’s President. Service
du Domaine (within Direction Generale des Impots)
5. Responsible for creating the country’s cadaster, zone by zone. It is an autonomous agency under
the Ministry of Public Works, Transport & Communication. ONACA – Office National du
Cadastre
6. Responsible for carrying out an agrarian reform to the benefit of those who cultivate the land.
INARA – Institut National de la Reforme Agraire
7. Responsible for surveying privately owned land upon the request of private sellers (or owners,
in the case of allotments) in everyday transactions. Official Surveyors
8. Responsible for the surveying of lands belonging to the State’s private domain and for survey
operations within a declared cadaster zone. State Surveyors
9. Authenticates land transactions (purchase/sale allotment, inheritance). Notaries
10. Controls the authenticity of documents and authorizes surveys. Civil Court
11. Responsible for resolving land conflicts related to possession. Court of Peace
12. Responsible for resolving land conflicts related to ownership. Civil Court
13. Executes decisions on property cases. Court of Peace
14. Orders specific actions such as lease terminations and expulsions from a site. Court of Peace