Investment in infrastructure three pillars of city resilience

Land Pooling / Land Readjustment: Lessons Learned
INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE
OPPORTUNITIES
CHALLENGES

• Assembles land for urban expansion and revitalization with minimal displacement.
• Helps recover a portion of the project cost.
• Promotes intensification of land use, thereby enhancing land value for landowners and expanding the property tax base for the municipality.
• Distributes land redevelopment costs and benefits equitably among landowners and other stakeholders such as the municipality, private developers, and the community, especially the urban poor and landless.
• Encourages public participation in policy decision-making.

• Land owners’ consensus can be difficult to obtain especially if projects fully rely on their voluntary participation
• Requires strong project management and technical capacity, particularly in negotiation and building consensus with land owners
• Not all projects can achieve self-financing and may require public funding to cover part of project cost

Land Pooling / Land Readjustment : Sampled Project
INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE
Project Description
With technical assistance from the World Bank, Tra Vinh city in Vietnam is currently piloting land pooling/readjustment approach to redeveloping a centrally located low income neighborhood, in order to address issues of flooding and lack of drainage network and access roads. The city has very limited budget, and LP/R becomes the only viable approach as development cost is shared between the city and local residents.
The neighborhood has an area of about 24 hectares, including about 1000 land plots that belong to 480 land users (under Vietnam’s public leasehold system). A sub-area of 4 hectares was selected as the pilot site. Site plan ensures access to every land parcel yet avoid demolition of existing structures to the extent possible. Over 90% of the land users in the pilot area have agreed to participate in the project so far.