Land Admin SystemsSummary
Draft for Ken's approval
This chapter draws the earlier chapters together. It sums up what Strategy Dynamics is and how it can be applied to improving land administration. The example throughout has been a project to remove a backlog in a Land Registry (LR) with aid, and keep it low after aid ends.
A shortened logframe for the backlog example is given. One logframe activity, A2.2 Improve LR procedures, is set beside the matching structure in the Strategy Dynamics backlog model. Graphs of performance over time make the development logic and the numbers behind the model easy to see.
A table applies Strategy Dynamics to Lessons Learnt from several land administration project evaluations, showing what it adds to the logframe approach. The pain-gain equation is briefly discussed. Meadows' twelve places to intervene in a system, called leverage points, are listed by relative power. A shorter set is then shown with examples from land administration.
Key points
- Strategy Dynamics is a learning tool for understanding complex situations, testing improvement proposals and choosing an improvement strategy, and it helps build buy-in.
- It adds value to pre-feasibility, design, appraisal, monthly monitoring and evaluation, and annual reviews, and the Land Agency can use it after aid ends.
- There are a number of different places to intervene in a system, and they vary in how effective they are.
- Strategy Dynamics gives the means to find out if a plan will work, design it, manage it, and fix things when they go wrong.
- What matters is not the backlog example but the logical, explicit and quantified approach, which can be applied to any land administration development task.