Rural Land Titling & Cadastre Development Project

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The Rural Land Titling and Cadastre Development Project for Ukraine will establish a national cadastre and title registry system, allocate land parcels to individuals in rural areas on an equitable basis, establish their property rights by issuing state deeds for land, and encourage the restructuring of farms into more efficient units. There are seven components to the project. 1) This component would provide the State Committee for Land Resources (SCLR) with resources to begin reorganizing and changing its function from Soviet-style land use planning to land use regulation better suited to a market economy. 2) Provide information to all potential recipients of State Deeds for Land is essential to the success of all systematic titling programs. 3) Short term training - restructuring large numbers of farms and issuing as many as 4 million State Deeds for Land in a period of six years is an enormous task requiring highly specialized skills. Long term training - the SCLR has proposed that funds be provided to equip the four agrarian universities in Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv and Kyiv. 4) This component will focus on the systematic subdivision of the land of former collective farms and the issuing of State Deeds for Land free-of-charge to individual rural land owners. 5) This component will support the development of a national cadastre system which will be managed by the Cadastre Center . 6) The farm restructuring component of the project wull provide advisory services to new or potential land owners. 7) This component will fund a Project Implementation Unit (PIU) in Kyiv. There would also be up to three regional representatives in each o f the 24 Oblast offices and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea hired under the project to coordinate and promote project activities.