Land Management Issue Debate

Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and dPeace (CICP), with support and collaboration form Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, is conducting a profect "Young Leadership" which consists of traing on communication and rhetoric of "Land Management Issue" is selected for the dialogue. This dialogue emergin young leaders from a broad cross section of government, business, professional and community group from Cambodia to discuss of common concern.

(The discussion of how to promote land management system to reduce nagative impact to community?)

The land management and administration aim at improving land tenure security, and promote the development of efficient land market. Project component will:

1. Support the formulation of land policies for land administration, management, and distribution by developing the capacity of the secretariat of the council of land policy, in policy analysis and development, and key policy in the areas of management, administration, and distributiion base on studies and pilot projects, will be formulated. Additionally, sub-degree will be drdafted for the implementation of the new law and legal instruments, whilw policies, laws, and procedures will be dissemninated;
2. Provide support ot the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction for long term institutional development, and establish a land management and administration education program in the Royal Agriculture University in Phnom Penh. Training, and capacity will be provided for sthe development of the private surveying profession;
3. Support the issuance of first time land titles and the establishment of land registration system for land transactions, wich includes information dissemination, and community organization. Land titling programs, and effective land registration systems will be develped;
4. Strengthen dispute resolution by MLMUPC, as an element in the provision of tenure security by the titling process;
5. Finance aerial photography and satellite images, training, and equipment form the compilation of land classification maps, while technical assisdtance for this component will be financed by the government.
   
   

(The discussion about why land is very importand for development and people's lives?)

In response, a land Issues Projet commence at NGO forum in 2004 that will continue to find answer to key questions rased by NGO forum members:

• What are the main impacts of the implementation of the land law?
• What factor impede its full implementation?
• How does the land titling programme affect poor people? Does it reduce povery or does it lead to poor people losing land?
• Are the new law and the cadastral commissions any more successful than earlier laws and mechanisms or does injustice and anarch still prevail?
• Will the sub-degree on economic land concessions make the processes for grant economics and agricultureral concessions more transparent and fair?
• Can social concession work?
• What is the relationship between land titling, land dispute resolutin and poverty reduction?
  
  

(The discussion about Urbanization and its impacts to community)

Government attempts to reduce poverty through land reform are now based on a land management and administration project supported by world bank and the governments of Germany and Finland. Key element of this include:

• Systematic land titling - which aims to give title to all land in Cambodia;
• Cadastral Commissions - which will aims to solve land disputes both related to the systematic land titling process and outside it;
• Social Concession - which will be a mechanism for transfering state land into the private ownership of poor landless peopl.
  
  
  -Futhure reading regarding with this topic:
• www.ngoforum.org.kh
• CICP special briefing 1 and 2