6-10-2011 Lessons learned from the Participatory Action Research NLMA

Participatory Action Research on Communal

Land Titling

Ekvinay Sayaraj,Head of Research Division,

LNRRIC/NLMA

Learning House, 06thOct 2011

Why PAR in Sangthong?

• Piloting Participatory Action Research• Design communal land adjudication &

registration • Piloting cooperation model between

NPA and local authorities

What is PAR?

• Participatory Action Research (PAR) is/as– Research tool– Learning approach– Social engagement– Impact analysis tool– Conflict avoidance technique– Quality control

Circle of PAR

2.planning

3.Action and

observation

4.reflection

1.problem

5.replan

Start activity

indicators

Circle of PAR in Sangthong

2.-RRA-literature -review legal

3.-Design form

-training-

4.-People awarenes

s-

capacity

1.Never issued

CT5.CES/reg manual

PAR on Communal titling

Process, forms

Project committee• Directive • 1. Mr. Chanthaviphon Inthavong• 3. Mr. Lounthong Bounmany

• Research Team• 1. Mr. Ekvinay Sayaraj- Team Leader• 2. Ms. Vilaisi Phothilack- project co

• 3.Mr. Khongka Maboonkoun- GIS, Surveying and Database• 4.Ms. Souphaphon Senganaly- Ban Sor Village• 5.Mr. Soukan Soupridi- Ban Napor Village• 6.Ms. Khounthavien Boolom- Ban Vangma Village• 7.Ms. Manilay Chanthavongsa- Ban Kuay Village

• Consultant• 1.Mr. Joost Foppes

Main activities

item Activities Date

1 Meeting with the team/training

29-30/Dec Lao Pako

2 Meetings in the village level Jan-Feb/20114 villages

3 Meeting in DLMA 24-26/Feb

4 Meeting in SNV 3rd March

5 National Workshop ???

Participate in GDG annual meeting

Understanding PAR in Lao Pako

Study legal docs/stakeholders Negotiation practice to understand right allocation

Importance of rights Agree on work plan

Interim workshop at Sangthong

District officials and leaders of villagers in the workshop

• constitute 2003• Land law 2003• Forestry Law2007• Local governance 03/NA 2003• ມ 2, 9-12 ownership law1990• Decree 88/PM 2008• Cooperative Decree136/PM 2010• Association Decree115/PM 2009• Instruction 564/NLMA (adjudication)• Instruction 012/NLMA (title format)• PLUP manual 2009• Land registration by using LandReg (2011)• Schlager&Ostrom (1992) Property Right Regimes and

Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis

References

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statestate

private???

communal

indiv

indiv

indiv

Ownership modelOwnership model

Communal Ownership• Communal rights are mostly blur. It is contrast

among private individual and state

State right Private rightCommunal right

• Blurriness is because of traditional rights are not physically fenced or demarcated.

• To visualize the traditional rights of communal land, we need to find traditional fence and demark by grant a communal title

Principle of communal title• To award a communal

title, we need to find where is boundary of its traditional fence and what type of fence to be built (type of right to be allowed or/and prohibited). Stakeholders and their traditional rights are necessarily identified.

trad.fence boundary

Expensive-developed

land

cheep-undeveloped

land

CO Curve

Sample right analysisDLMA All

villagers

member

Non-member

Withdraw group

producers

donor clients

access X X X X X X X

withdraw

X X X X X

management

X X X X X X X

exclusion

X X X

Alienate (transfer, leasing, collateral

X - - - - -

Organize and train the team

- Data collection, CES, actor analysis, regulation formulation, development plan, surveying technique, evaluation

Organize and train the team

- Data collection, CES, actor analysis, regulation formulation, development plan, surveying technique, evaluation

Rapid data collection/

consultation/survey/tenure assessment

Land use regulationLand use regulation

Organize land holders

Organize land holders

Community Education Service/

negotiation

Role of land holder

Role of land holder

filling form filling form

Development

plan

Development

plan

Database/ Hardcopy &Solf copy

Planning, allocation &

titling

SubmitSubmit

Surveying, adjudication &

Titling

Surveying, adjudication &

Titling

Development/ Conservation Development/ Conservation

Evaluation

Replicate the

Project model

Start here?

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