After creating a visualization of the association model (shown in the image), we conducted in-depth interviews with land-owning residents, lawyers, municipal employees, and representatives from all authorities involved in land registration. We mapped out the resident’s journey to registration in the Land Registry (Tabu) and validated it with both officials and residents.

We identified and categorized the full range of registration barriers – economic, legal, historical, cultural, technical/bureaucratic, perceptual, elements of mistrust, and more – and explored the roots behind them. For example: inheritance laws for women in the religious courts, social conventions, sovereign law and the practice of dividing land into segments to cope with political uncertainty, as well as a deep cultural connection to land and trees dating back to the Ottoman period – and many more.

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