6-10-2011 Case example: Communal land titling in Sangthong district ENG
1. Towards Communal Land Titles
in Sangthong District
Sustainable Women Empowerment Project, Sangthong District
Lounthong Bounemany, Chief of DLMA
Sangthong District Land Management
Authorities (DLMA)
2. Overview of Sangthong
• Sangthong district is one of nine districts of Vientiane prefecture
and it was the 8th district established on 23 November 1993.
Located is 55 Km along the Mekong River to the north.
In the north bordering Mead, Feuang and HinHeap districts,
Vientiane province
In the south bordering Sikottabong, Vientiane Capital.
In the east bordering Phouphanang National Park (Phonehong
and Naxaythong districts)
to the west bordering with Mekong River
General information: 37 villages divided into 5 clusters and 461
units; 5,484 HH and population: 28,266, women 13,946; Lao
loum 92,96%, Kamu 7%, Hmong 0.02%
Agriculture based: 95.5 %; public service 2.52 %; trade and
services 1.98%.
3. Land Use Planning:
Between -0 to - - DLMA implemented
land use planning in village and cluster level by
collaborating with concerned stakeholders, chief of
villages and village land committee.
DLMA divided into 5 teams collected information and
processed data into data base
Using the pictures from (Quick bird) and Landsat-7 as
well as Indian satellite picture for identified areas
6. The area of village cluster
Cluster number Name of cluster Area (ha) Percentage %
1 Ban Kuappeang 10,866.635 14.30
2 Ban Kok Hae 15,902.004 20.09
3 Ban Phialath 8,367.724 11.01
4 Ban Nalath 14,936.975 19.66
5 Ban Kouay 25,908.091 34.10
Total 75,981.430 100 %
8. Types of Land Use
The area of land used in Sangthong
No Type of Land Area in hectare Percentage
1 Construction land 1687.21 2.22
2 Agriculture land 29916.63 39.37
3 Forest land 38782.97 51.04
4 Culture land 237.62 0.3
5 Wet land 4238.7 5.58
6 Industrial land 485.48 0.64
7 Transport land (road) 534.53 0.7
8 Defense land 35.628 0.05
9 Other 73.3 0.1
Total 75992.068 100
9. Management plan regulations
Formal agreement village boundaries
Drafted village regulations.
Nominated two volunteers to manage
village land.
Form for following up village land use
Selecting the good unit model.
10. Characteristic and potentials of Sangthong
Located along the Mekong River and trading
and services with Thai border and VTE
Capital
Has high potential for food production,
livestock raising and handicrafts
Potential in term of minerals
11. Important issues required to register communal land
tiltles in 4 villages
1. People need to see the benefits of bamboo
before it can become an incentive to manage
forest
2. Land use planning
3. Identification forest types (Production
forest)
4. Inventory (bamboo, rattan)
5. Forest management plan
12. Prepare to registration communal land tilting deeds
See 5 steps
Public hearing (village consultation meeting)
Collecting information with chief of village and villagers for
investigation history of the land
Boundary milestone (boundary marking) only production forest
Measuring by using GPS and drawing map koh-1 and ask private
land owners with shared borders to “finger print” (slide 13)
Use the data from koh-1 to draw the map in koh-2 form
certificated by chief of village (slide 13)
Request temporary communal land titling deeds from DLMA
(samnouan khamhong form, 5 pages, slide 14-16)
After 90 days if no comments and feedback from villagers or other
stakeholders in the district the permanent communal land tiling
deed is issued to the village (see slide 17)
After 3 years need the permanent tile needs to be reviewed to get
re-approval
13. Results to date
Village Village Selected Bamboo Proposed
area (ha) management (%) communal land
area (ha) (ha) by DLMA
(2010) (2011)
Ban Na Po 2,591.16 50 60 43.77
Ban Vang 7,981.34 85 85 38.39
Mar
Ban 6,035 60 80 138.48
Kouay
Ban Xor 8,281.5 337 95 1,887.01
Total 24,889 532 2,107.65
