1 – 2

Lecture

Introduction

Introduce topic, theological issues, practical issues, set up field trip.

3 – 15

Field Activities

Analysing Land Issues in a Community

• Professor set this up with a local church, divide students into teams, give information on locations of offices, and give students letters of information to take with them, provide GPS system.
• Break into groups of 6-10. Define areas of responsibility, as not all can do all.
• With the church people, visit a typical squatter area and talk to the people, and get their permissions to analyse the situation.
• Determine what type of properties these are from the assessors office, is it private, BIR, Govt Agency, local government, by getting the tax map from the local government.
• Visit Registry of Deeds, to get the copy of the government title.
• If it belongs to the government go to the Bureau of lands and survey, to get the subdivision plan. Is it private, govt. if it is a fake title, students need to detect this.
• Find actual location, through their GPS system.
• Report back to the community and advise them on their situation. Most likely it is titled in the name of someone else. If it is government they can probably apply for socialised housing. If it is private they can go for CMP. (students need to be trained in details of communicating this first). 10% may have fake titles, so they need to be informed as to what to do.

16

Lecture + Power point

Part 2: Process of Developing Land Rights theology

 Issues in a Situational, Contextual Theology of Land

How to Develop Contextual Theologies

17-18

Power Point Lecture & discussion

The Kingdom of God and the Land

The Kingdom of God and the Land
The Nature of land in the scriptures
3 progressions from landlessness to landedness in the scriptures.

19

Lecture and Discussion

The Biblical Basis for Advocacy

Biblical sources for involvement in doing justice and advocacy on behalf of the poor

20-21

Lecture and Discussion

Part 3: Contextual Issues

Regalian Doctrine, categories of land, illegal titles, illegal exploitation, non-stewardship, no national land policy, syndicates

22

Video Case Study

Review of Documentation

Atty Bringas VCD on a case that shows the various documentation of land titles.

“The history of a land title” i.e., from the Original Certificate of Title (OCT) which is the first title issued to the land to the Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) which is when ownership is transferred to another or when a parcel of land which is covered by an OCT is subdivided into several lots where TCT’s are issued to these lots.

23

Case Studies

Alternatives to present

De Soto Model, Community Mortgage Program

24-25

Lecture

Upgrading squatter areas

Review of UN or NHA plans for upgrading squatter areas