Mining Cadastre Office
Nigeria
The project under the Sustainable Management of Mineral Resources Project -SMMRP aimed to improve governance in the mining sector, through the establishment of a transparent computerized system to grant, manage and cancel permits. The efficient and reliable management of mining titles is considered as a backbone to increase investment and growth in the mining sector of Nigeria. The project’s objective was to strengthen the property rights and security of tenure within the mining sector; enhance the transparency of the mineral licensing process and government’s regulatory capacity through improved efficiency, information availability and management.
The following services were provided within the framework of the project:
- User requirement consolidation
- Analysis of mining law/regulations
- Institutional support
- Development of cadastral procedures
- System design, programming and implementation
- Data migrationv
- Hardware and software
- Training and know-how transfer
Upon the successful conclusion of the project, all requirements according to the Mining Act and the regulations had been determined, all data captured, and a titling system developed and implemented.
The recent approval of licensing regulations in May 2011 introduced changes in the cadastral guidelines which constituted the basis for the computerized cadastral procedures and the new procedures to be applied are not identical to those which have been integrated into the cadastral SW (SIGTIM) implemented by GAF from 05/2007 to 12/2010 at MCO. Consequently, it was unavoidable to adapt the tenement management system to the new regulations, modify the system in the components or routines required to be fully consistent with the legal framework.