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Following the Resolution by the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People’s Council that mapping and issuance of forest Land Ownership Certificates LOC in the six upland distr

LESSONS LEARNT ON PARTICIPATORY FOREST LAND ALLOCATION IN QUANG

NGAI PROVINCE

In troduction Participatory forest land allocation in Quang Ngai

province

Presenter: Phạm Đình Phong Vicve head of Land Administration Dept

DARD Quảng Ngãi

Rural Development program of Quang

(RUDEP) started in 2002 funded by AusAID;

In 2005, The participatory forest land

aloocation protocal initiated by the project have been piloted in 2 communes

In 2006, this protocal have been applied in 13

comunes of 8 districts of Quang Ngai

Following the Resolution by the Provincial Party

Committee and the Provincial People’s Council that

mapping and issuance of forest Land Ownership Certificates (LOC) in the six upland districts, DoNRE in coordination

with the District People’s Committees (DPCs) prepared the Economic-Technical Reports (E-T Reports) on mapping for preparation of cadastral maps of scale 1/5000, land

allocation, land registration, preparation of cadastral

documents and issuance of LOCs for forest land and other sloping lands for annual tree crop production The

Economic-Technical Report was prepared following the

seven Steps of PFLAP The Steps are briefly shown in

Appendix 1 PFLAP was commenced in 2005 with the pilot testing in two communes

z Objectives:

+ Effective and sustainable use of forest resources

based on the sustainable protection, regeneration, and socilization of forest enterprises to ensure the forest lands have owners

+ Creates more jobs to improved living standards

of mountainous peoples to contribute to social

economic development, environemnt protection, effective forest resources use

+ Promote the participation of related

organizations, especially the poors, ethnic

minority groups in forest land allocation

Implemenation and results

Village meeting to raise awareness of local

community (first meeting)

- Each village organized a meeting with the

participation of 60-70 peoples

-Main contents of the meeting:

+ inform households on the national and provincial

policies related to forest land allocation and issuance of land ownership certificates;

+ introduce households to PFLAP and schedules for PFLAP implementation at the provincial,

district and commune level;

+ introduce households to forest land types,

regulations on their use and opportunities for

households to use and manage their land;

+ ensure that the households understand the

objectives, principles, and significance of land use planning and land allocation activities and that

they can identify their roles and duties in land use planning and land allocation process;

+ introduce households to concepts, signs,

colours, and the ways to identify boundaries and place names on the current three forest-type

maps and exercises to identify current land use

practices.

Second village meeting on PFLAP

+ The second meeting was conduced to discuss and propose a forest land use plan The meeting was conducted with the application of PRA tools to discuss land use planning, and land use and

management plans.

z+ Criteria for forest land use:

the areas planned for protection, production,

cultivation, or afforestation were introduced to the households using the topographical map

(1/5,000 scale) Discussions also included the future forest land use strategies

The District Working Group (DWG) then worked with households to identify future land use

activities for various forest land types.

Draft of the forest land use planning was prepared

as follows:

z The DWG in coordination with the consultants entered the

information in the future land use planning and boundaries into the 1/10,000 scale topographical map This map included land use planning details and proposed land allocation plans agreed by

participants at the village meeting

z The forest land area and planned area of different land types for each village were calculated and entered into an inventory sheet Commune land use planning maps were an aggregation of village planning maps and data

z On the basis of these maps, the DWG assisted the Commune

People’s Committees (CPCs) in drafting the commune

participatory forest land use planning and land allocation plans.

- Worshop to consolidate the commune Forest Use Plan

z + The DWG presented the draft commune forest land use planning and land allocation plans to the Commune Land Advisory Council (CLAC)

z Recommendations and comments were given by

participants at the meeting to finalise the explanation of the commune forest land use planning and land

allocation plans, maps and other relevant documents

z The DWG assisted the CPCs to finalise the plans to

submit to the District People’s Committees (DPCs) for approval.

z Altogether, there were 1,040 commune and village

meetings with the participation of 58,539 person times This included:

– Commune meetings (2 meetings/commune): 102

meetings; 4,189 person times

– Village meetings (2 meetings/village): 938 meetings; 54,350 person times

Results of mapping and Land ownership certificate (LOC) – Red books

After two years (2007-2008) of the

implementation of mapping for preparation of

cadastral maps and issuance of land ownership certificates in the six upland districts in Quang

Ngai, 121,930 Ha./124,138 Ha of land was

measured, accounting for 98%, and 111,909

LOCs were delivered, accounting for 117% as

compared to the Economic-Technical Reports LOCs are jointly owned by both male and female heads of the households.

In order to complete mapping and issuance of the LOCs, DoNRE with the support of Institutional Support Program (ISP) covered:

z Trainings to provide guidance on approval work

to the CLAC;

z Preparation for the village meeting and

consolidation of the proposals;

z Village meetings;

z CLAC meetings;

z District Steering Committee (SC) meetings and

z Trainings on the use of ViLis software.

By June 2009, total area measured for the preparation of cadastral maps was 122,647 Ha with the issuance of 117,616 LOCs

Pictures of awareness raising program

Implemetation at district

Traings for working groups and land use

consutation council

Training on use of GPS

Implementing at commune

First village meeting

Participatory forest land allocation at

commune

Training on assessment of curent land use

status

Second village meeting

Presentation of forest land allocation plan

at commune (out door)

Presentation of forest land allocation

plan at commune (in door)

Delivery the red books to households

z The DWG, the CLAC and government staff at different levels

have been well equipped with fundamental knowledge on the

participatory forest land use planning and land allocation

through technical training courses;

z The approval work by CLAC has been conducted in an accurate, fair, democratic and transparent way which enhanced the quality

of land registration documents;

z Through the program, technical staff of District Natural

Resources and Environment Division (DNRED) and the Land

Registration Office of the districts have been able to use FaMis

and ViLis software in compilation and adjustment of digital

maps, preparation of cadastral documents, and preparation of the LOCs The commune cadastral officials have been familiar with the use of computers and software’s;

z Participatory approach has been applied widely

by the agencies at different levels and

particularly by people This process has helped people understand well the party and the

government policies towards forest land;

z The participation of upland people in this

process not only improved their knowledge but also helped them identify their roles and

responsibilities in forest land use planning and land allocation;

z In the implementation of PFLAP, people had opportunities to participate such as identification of boundaries between villages, land use organisations accompanying consultant agencies in the preparation of cadastral maps, land registration, land allocation

in the field and issuance of the LOCs Consequently, on

receiving the LOCs, households are able to immediately identify the locations and the boundaries of their land, which minimized potential conflicts and claims on land

z This PFLAP has extensively and comprehensively raised the

awareness of the DNRED and the District Land Registration

Office staff, and especially the CLAC members on the

importance of land management Responsibilities of the leaders and the staff of each agency have been clearly defined, which

contributes to addressing the issues and shortcomings during the past time Work has gradually become stabilized and developed for the coming years.

z This Process not only shows the elaborate and logical nature of work but also brings practical benefits to upland people They are now provided with the LOCs and have the rights with their land ;

Difficulties and Shortcomings

z The transfer from Protection Forest into Production

Forest after the approval of three forest-type

classification was slow due to the lack of guidelines

from the central government It was not until 2008 that MARD provided guidelines on this As a result, it has been impossible to allocate land and issue the LOCs for some area of land transferred from Protection Forest into Production Forest

z The DNRED and the Land Registration Offices in the upland districts are lack of staff In addition, these staff are overloaded with work volume and their

contribution to this work was therefore very limited.

z Some local authorities did not concentrate efforts on

this work What they did was to assign the work to the professional staff and consultant agencies without any instructions Consequently, the issues emerged during the implementation were not addressed in a timely

manner

z The effective coordination between the consultant

agencies, the CPCs, and the DNRED of some districts was sometimes lacking and not regular, which caused the checking and appraisal of documents inaccurate

z Due to scattered settlement of the local people, it was difficult to conduct meetings since people had to travel too far In some villages, meetings had to be held

several times and some meetings had to be held at night

so that people could fully participate.

LESSONS LEARNT

z The SC, the DWG and the assigned staff have to

manage and direct the implementation closely,

objectively and democratically Also, issues emerged during the implementation have to be addressed in a flexible way.

z Those districts and communes which receive intensive support and directions from the political systems from district, commune, and village levels will be able to

carry out the planned activities very well

z Communication work to make people understand the Government policies and laws and the benefits of land allocation and issuance of the LOCs is very important and this plays a pivotal role in the success of this

process.

z Coordination between the consultant

agencies, the CPCs, and the DWG has to be on

a regular basis In addition, these agencies have

to cooperate closely to resolve the issues during the implementation.

z It is really difficult to carry out PFLAP in the

community where most of the people are ethnic minorities This required patience and result-

based approach in doing the work Moreover, it

is very important to promote the roles of mass organizations in mobilizing the participation of people.

- Forest lands allocation program need to be integrated with others projects in order to support for local people

to be able to develop the production more effcetive in their lands;

- It is necessary to integrate other programs and

projects with PFLAP so that people can use their land more productively Households often harvest the

products before the harvest time, therefore, there

should be a long term support to the households It is also necessary to restrict the transfer of the LOCs from one household to another (because there are tendencies

to sell the LOCs by land owners) when people get the LOCs More importantly, people should not lose their forest land, especially their land use rights.

Kết luận:

individual households especially the poor upland people, both male and female,

of the province They made significant contribution to enhance the productivity

of the forest once they receive land ownership

+ The PFLAP has not only supported the poor households but it also

contributed to capacity building of the implementing agencies both in policy

development and technical field As the allocated forest is scattered, the

individual forest owners need to manage the forest in a community approach

Thank you very much !

Email address:

pdphong-stnmt@quangngai.gov.vn

Office: 0553.714.508 Mobile: 0988.813.595