An Orientation Seminar on the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) Tool: Orientation Workshop Summary Report
This publication is a proceedings for the Orientation Seminar on the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) Tool held on 7-8 September 2023, Quezon City and Muntinlupa City.
STDM is a pro-poor, participatory and gender responsive land recoding tool developed by the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) and its partners in 2010. Recognizing that the conventional land system only covers those legally-owned land and in the formal system, the STDM tool was developed to close the gap between the formal system and those tenure arrangements that are not recognized by the statutory and legal system. It allows recordation of all possible types of tenure that exist on the ground.
The Orientation Seminar facilitated the sharing of varied experiences and lessons learnt on using STDM tool in the Philippines. The STDM tool has been applied in three contexts in the country: a) mapping of informal settlements families (ISFs) in the cities of Muntinlupa and Navotas, b) participatory enumeration and recording of ancestral household lots and farms of the Talaandig and Manobo tribes in the municipalities off Talakag and Pangantucan, of Bukidnon province, and c) ensuring housing rights of internally displaced persons in post-conflict Marawi.
The event was jointly organized by the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC), Homeless People’s Federation Philippines, Inc. (HPFPI), Technical Assistance Movement for People and Environment, Inc. (TAMPEI) and Xavier Science Foundation (XSF), with the support of UN Habitat and GLTN.
