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Data should include maps of lands with parcel layer and display parcel boundaries in addition to a land registry with information on transactions of parcels of land. The assessment criteria were developed in collaboration with Cadasta Foundation. For more information on land ownership datasets and where they're located, see Cadasta Foundation's Data Overview](https://cadasta.org/open-data/overview-of-property-rights-data/).
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | No | |
| Publicly available | No | |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | No | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| Digital data | No | |
| Print data | No | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | There is no land ownership data published for Somalia, search engine, did not return any relevant result. Legal specialists explains that there are Responsibility for urban, agricultural and grazing land is divided between three Ministries which have not streamlined procedures and have low levels of cooperation and communication. | For reference about land ownership in Somalia https://legalactionworldwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Housing-Land-and-Property-Issues-in-Somalia-Persons-of-Concern-in-Somaliland-and-South-Central-Somalia.pdf |
| characteristics | None of the above | |
| Controlled access | No | |
| Collector name | Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Transport, Ministry for Agriculture, and Ministry for Pastoral Development and Environment |
It is unclear whether cadastral data indicating individual property rights currently exist (for example in urban areas) https://shuraako.org/sites/default/files/documents/Land%20Tenure%20in%20Somalia%20A%20Potential%20Foundation%20for%20Security%20and%20Prosperity.pdf