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Cambodia's draft Land Law: overview and preliminary analysis of key issues
Cambodia
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Darryl Vhugen
2024
This document is a preliminary analysis of the key points of the draft Land Law 2023 by ALIGN based on the reviewing and consultation dialogue of the new draft Land Law in Siem ...
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Factsheet #1: Community fisheries and development projects in coastal areas
Cambodia
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
2021
This factsheet looks at a case study of community fisheries in Kampot and Kep provinces who are facing threats from development projects, and provides tangible recommendations t...
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Documentation of customary land tenure in Cambodia
Cambodia
Books and book chapters
Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG)
2022
This book presents a flexible framework for documenting customary tenure rights aimed at helping civil society organizations (CSOs) and communities adapt the documentation proce...
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Gender, tenure and customary practices in forest landscapes_2023
Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
RECOFTC
2023
This report is based on 10 research projects carried out in 18 sites in seven countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Viet Nam. Each study document...
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Legal analysis of forest and land laws in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Oberndorf, R B
2006
From the foreword: "A major goal of CFI's mission in Cambodia is to support the involvement of civil society in the management of forests. Rural communities have a special role ...
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Restoring Land Rights: Pathways for the recognition of customary tenure in Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Christian Erni and Antoine Deligne
2022
This publication is providing guidance to civil society organisations and other reform actors in Myanmar about how to recognise and protect customary tenure in both policy and p...
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Persistence and Change in Customary Tenure Systems in Myanmar
Myanmar
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Christian Erni
2021
The document describes the diversity of customary tenure systems in various regions of Myanmar; it looks at what they have in common and how they differ. It investigates the pro...
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The accessibility of land titles in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
GABRIEL MILGRAM, TRY THY
Lack of access to information undermines the ability of Cambodians to assert their rights. Information technologies such as geospatial representation and the dissemination of di...
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Streaming the establishment of community protected areas (CPAS) in Cambodia
Cambodia
Issue and policy briefs
Florian Rock
2022
This Policy Brief is the first in a series of three that have been compiled as input into the revision of the Protected Areas Law (2008) based on a comprehensive review of docum...
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Assessment of the new Land Law and Forestry Law in Laos: Customary Tenure Rights over Land and Forests
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Mekong Region Land Governance, Land Info Working Group
2021
This report specifically details the differences between the newly promulgated Land Law and Forestry Law and their predecessor laws, the Land Law 2003 and the Forestry Law 2007,...
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The ABC of land tenure - Key terms and their meaning
Asia, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Viet Nam
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
FAO
2020
This glossary has been prepared to assist with an understanding of land tenure terms in the context of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, ...
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Land Tenure in Mekong Forest Landscapes: Advancing the Recognition of Customary Rights and Responsible Investment Practices
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Antoine Deligne, Daniel Hayward, Natalie Y. Campbell, Robert Cole,...
2021
This summary report was the outcome of The 3rd Mekong Regional Land Forum that took place on 26 and 27 May 2021 and was organized by MRLG, FAO and the Land Portal. The focus of ...
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Challenges and opportunities of recognizing and protecting customary tenure systems in Myanmar
Myanmar
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
FAO and MRLG
2019
The previous NLD government took office in April 2016, with strong commitments to addressing land governance issues, increasing land tenure security and making peace with ethnic...
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Challenges and opportunities of recognizing and protecting customary tenure systems in Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Issue and policy briefs
Rock, F.
2019
This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and ...
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Challenges and Opportunities of Recognizing and Protecting Customary Tenure Systems in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Issue and policy briefs
FAO and MRLG
2019
This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and ...
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Securing Land Rights of Smallholder Farmers The Secure Access to Land and Resources (SALaR) Project Experience in Laos, the Philippines, and Uganda
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Philippines
Advocacy and promotional materials
Global Land Tool Network/UN-Habitat, VFI (Funded by BMZ/Federal...
2018
The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is considered as one of the pilot land management platforms that has been initiatively developed as capacity building and tool development ...
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Assessment of the new Land Law and Forestry Law in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Customary Tenure Rights over Land and Forests
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Tony Lamb , United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, the...
2021
The report explains the differences between the new Land Law and Forestry Law and their predecessor laws (the Land Law 2003 and the Forestry Law 2007). Compare the new Land La...
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Women Migration and Women's Land Tenure Security in the greater Mekong sub-region
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand
Case studies
Soimart Rungmanee, Souknida Sautouky, Maw Thoe Myar and Patcharin...
2021
This report considers the interlinkages between migration, gender, and land tenure. The study on which the report is based explored how migration affects women’s land tenure sec...
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Women and Land Rights in Lao PDR (June 2020)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Phetsakhone Somphongbouthakanh Dr. Loes Schenk-Sandbergen
This report presents the status of practicing women's land rights through both formal and customary systems and their relations intertwine. women's knowledge about their own lan...
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Status of Indigenous Peoples’ lands, territories and resources in Asia
Asia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Shimreichon Luithui- Erni, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
2019
Indigenous Peoples, because of their subordination and distinctiveness from mainstream cultures and polities, have been and still are subjected to gross human rights violations,...