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WORKSHOP WORKSHOP 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 o f Land Administration Dept. DARD Quảng Ngãi Induction: 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, re g eneration, 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 Implemenation and results 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. [...]... 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)...Draft of the forest land use planning was prepared as follows: 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 The forest land area and planned area of different land types... towards forest land; 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; 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... entered into an inventory sheet Commune land use planning maps were an aggregation of village planning maps and data 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 + The DWG presented the draft commune forest land use planning... knowledge on the participatory forest land use planning and land allocation through technical training courses; The approval work by CLAC has been conducted in an accurate, fair, democratic and transparent way which enhanced the quality of land registration documents; Through the program, technical staff of District Natural Resources and Environment Division (DNRED) and the Land Registration Office... 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. .. 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 This PFLAP has extensively and comprehensively raised the awareness of the DNRED and the District Land Registration Office... Trainings to provide guidance on approval work to the CLAC; Preparation for the village meeting and consolidation of the proposals; Village meetings; CLAC meetings; District Steering Committee (SC) meetings and 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... land ; Difficulties and Shortcomings 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. .. Forest into Production Forest 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 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 . WORKSHOP WORKSHOP 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. 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,. 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