Also,
GIFTEL
has
constructed
Common
Facilities
platforms
to
encourage
telecom
to
extend
services
to
rural
areas.
LAND
5.16
Complex
and
lengthy
procedures,
and
high
costs
associated
with
purchase
and
registration
of
lands
There
are
three
(3)
types
of
land
ownership
in
Ghana
with
an
approximate
ratio
of
10
percent
belonging
to
government
and
the
remaining
90%
is
either
family
or
stool
lands.
Lands
Commission
is
one
of
the
institutions
involved
in
registration
and
purchasing
of
land.
The
Land
Administration
Project
(LAP)
is
to
streamline
the
whole
land
purchase
and
registration
procedure
and
bring
all
the
institutions
under
a
new
Lands
Commission.
The
Commission
explained
that
there
has
been
little
change
in
the
procedures
to
really
affect
the
time
it
takes
for
total
processing.
This
is
because
process
of
registration
involves
various
sister
but
independent
departments
(i.e.
Land
Title
Board,
Land
Valuation
Board,
TCPD,
and
Survey
Department
among
others).
At
each
of
these
places
the
procedures
are
long.
It
is
against
this
background
that
through
the
LAP,
a
One
–
Stop
–
Shop
(OSS)
is
being
piloted
at
Madina
in
Accra
to
bring
all
the
Land
Sector
Agencies
(LSAs)
under
one
roof.
The
concept
of
the
OSS
is
to
“co-‐locate
the
LSAs
and
reduce
steps
involved
in
the
administrative
service
procedures
and
to
change
the
way
these
services
are
provided,
from
“many
doors
for
one
service”
to
“one
door
for
many
services”15.
The
OSS
will
offer
patrons
of
the
LSAs
the
ability
to
use
a
single
service
centre
for
all
the
agencies.
With
regard
to
cost
of
registration,
there
has
been
little
to
no
change.
The
Commission
has
no
involvement
in
transaction
of
Family
Owned
Lands.
When
the
transaction
is
over
a
stool
land,
the
Commission
grants
a
concurrence
and
with
government
or
public
lands,
Lands
Commission
does
the
processing
of
documents.
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