Until recently, getting a land title in Honduras took 177 complicated administrative steps, a long chain of government agencies, and as long as six years. Due to these barriers, more than one million Honduran families lack titles for their land. Having a land title is an important step in living securely on your land, because the poor can easily be unjustly kicked off their land by the powerful.
ASJ works to help Hondurans obtain a land title by accompanying individual cases. Our team helps review up to 10,000 land titles every year to make sure they are error-free, while also training community leaders in their rights under property law. At the same time, we work to improve the Property Institute to ensure that the institution is able to properly deliver land titles to the Honduran population. Through ASJ’s technical support and plan for reforms, the Property Institute has implemented new, transparent procedures and overcome institutional inefficiencies, ultimately resulting in more secure living conditions for Hondurans.