LIFE project presentation for the Regional Land Forum 2018

1. Land learning Initiative forFood security Enhancement Project (LIFE Project)
Land learning Initiative for Food
security Enhancement (LIFE) project
MRLG - 2nd
Regional Land Forum
28-30 May 2018 Bangkok, Thailand

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Quick overview
LIFE is unique initiative under LIWG and hosted by
VFI in partnership with an alliance of organizations.
The LIFE initiative – originally called the Integrated
Natural Resource Management (INRM) in 2014.

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Quick overview
Funding came from SDC, Oxfam, FAO and MRLG.

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What is LIFE all about
LIFE aims to contribute to
smallholder family farmers,
especially women & those
from ethnic groups, having
secure and equitable land
tenure through enhanced
capacity, knowledge and
understanding of key
stakeholders (authorities,
CSO staff, villagers, etc.)
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What we offer
• Participatory and
interactive coaching on
various land rights and
land governance topics
based on Lao laws and
policies
• Co-training
• Trainers’ development
• Support to lesson plan
development
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Our Lesson plans
Contract Farming

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Our Lesson plans

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Our Lesson plans
Land Training Toolkit
Access to Justice

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How do Partners benefit?
• Enhances knowledge and skills of staff on land
issues
• Improves trainer skills and confidence
• Adds dimension to on-going work at community
level
• Fosters common training approaches to key
challenges in the land sector
• Brings villagers together with local authorities
• Feeds into discussions in the land issue sector

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Achievements

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Achievements
• 10 lessons plans developed (including 3 lesson
plans with other stakeholders DOF & MoJ)
• 59 coaching workshops conducted in the whole
country
• More than 600 government and civil society staff
trained on promoting land tenure rights
• 202 communities reached through partners
• Approx. 17,000 villagers & farmers reached through
partners
• 82% of the communities are ethnic communities.

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How does it work
• Responds to capacity-building needs of partners
and others countrywide
• Request letter from local authorities or
organizations
• Lesson plans development based on identified
needs
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How does it work?

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LIFE’s coaching workshop timeline
1. LIFE Team preparation & be ready
2. Provision of the coaching workshop
3. Participants prepare & practice
4. Planning and be ready for piloting in village
level
5. Pilot at village level with communities
6. Evaluation & feedback together with
participants
7. Evaluation & feedback for improvement among
LIFE’s team

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Action Plan for the next few
months
• Extensive field work with
GIZ and DALaM
• Work with MoJ to agree
on scope of cooperation
on the A2J lesson plan
• Conduct impact analysis
activities at district and
village levels
• Finalization of a toolbox
• Capitalization of the LIFE
experience

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Thank
you!

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