Computerized Land Registry in Haiti

The project aims to secure private land titles registered in the handwritten registers centralized at the Direction Générale des Impôts in Port-au-Prince in Haiti. The implementation of a computerized land registry system aims to facilitate the registration of notarial records and the search and identification of land titles by the general public. The activities of the project include: 1) digitizing and indexing over one million pages; 2) integrating the data in a database; 3) archiving manuscripts in a safe environment. The direct beneficiaries are the staff already in place the national institutions responsible of land reform in Haiti as well as 700 notaries and 600 surveyors operating on Haitian territory.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) private land titles in Haiti centralized in Port-au-Prince (estimated at 1 million pages) are digitized and secured; (2) research and indexing private land titles for a computerized national land register is completed; (3) capacities of stakeholders have increased : mainly the government 700 notaries and 600 surveyors; and (4) Institutions are able to implement the computerized system according to the law and regulations in the land tenure sector.