Second Regional Stakeholder Workshop: opening presentation
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This document outlines the agenda for the 2nd Regional Stakeholder Consultation Workshop of the Mekong Region Land Governance Project in Vientiane, Lao PDR on February 23-24, 2016. The workshop will bring together stakeholders from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam to discuss updates on the MRLG project, presentations on regional land governance activities, and participate in thematic group work and action planning to improve policy and practice around smallholder farmer tenure security in the Mekong region.
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Second Regional Stakeholder Workshop: opening presentation
- 1. Mekong Region Land Governance Project 2nd Regional Stakeholder Consultation Workshop Mercure Hotel, Vientiane, Lao PDR 23-24th February 2016 Implemented by Supported by Funded by
- 2. Morning Agenda 8.30 - 8.45 Opening key note 8.45 – 9.00 Development Partner Introduction 9.00 – 9.35 MRLG update 9.35 – 10.20 MRLG question time 10.20 – 10.30 Group Photo 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee 11.00 – 12.00 Regional L&A activity Presentations 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
- 3. Afternoon Agenda 13.30 – 13.45 M-LIKE and Knowledge Products presentation 13.45 – 14.15 IF Gallery Walk 14.15 – 14.30 Introduction to the group work. Coffee to be served during group work. 14.30 – 16.15 Thematic Group Work Action Planning and Coordination 16.15 – 16.45 Present back to Plenary 16.45 – 17.00 Closure for the day and house keeping 18.00 - 20.00 Tum Mua Reception Dinner – Mekong Riverside
- 4. Towards equitable and secure access to land and natural resources for family farmers in the Mekong Region
- 5. Towards joint planning and alliance building with the aim of improving policy and practice for smallholder farmer tenure security. Workshop Objectives
- 6. Expected Workshop Outcomes • Strengthening and enlarging alliances along the key MRLG thematic priorities. • Commitment to participate in an action agenda toward policy and practice influencing through regional and country level actions.
- 7. Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) • Switzerland added another USD 4m, now 13m The project design provides flexibility for additional donors to join: • German contribution increases funds in the QDF & IF, and provide 1 full-time & 1 part- time staff through GIZ (EUR 3.5m) • Luxembourg will provide EUR 1m into the Grants Facility from early this year onwards
- 8. Expected Project Results Development Result: Family farmers in CLMV countries, especially those belonging to ethnic minorities, have secure and equitable access to and control over agricultural land, forest, and fisheries. Outcome 1: Reform actors in the CLMV countries are more effective in promoting and protecting family farmers’ tenure rights Outcome 2: Improved policies and practice on land use and land related investment that promotes and protects family farmer tenure security.
- 9. Project Implementation Unit across CLMV Project Structure Coordination & Facilitation - Country facilitation - Learning opportunities and identifying learning pathways - Space for dialogue - Nurturing new engagements Facilitating a common understanding / strategy Effective Reform Actors Knowledge Management - Assisted thematic / policy learning - Capitalisation of experience - Producing / disseminating knowledge - Information Platform Developing evidence base for common understanding / strategy Strengthened advocacy and decision making Grant Facility - Quick response projects - Innovative medium term projects - Coordinating exchange experiences / lessons Investing in opportunities Improved land governance scenarios Project Steering Committee (14 Member Advisory Council) Enlarging national and regional networks and alliances
- 10. Enlarging the alliance & networks & knowledge sharing Linking L&A, QDF and IF 2014 2016 2017 Learning and Alliance Building 20182015 Stakeholder Identification Stakeholder Consultations Alliance building Policy Dialogue
- 11. Up to 10 new Innovation Fund Projects (Nov 2016 – Nov 2018) Linking L&A, QDF and IF QDF_2 10 Innovation Fund Projects (Dec 2015 – Dec 2017) Policy Dialogue QDF_4 2014 2015 2016 2017 QDF_1 Learning and Alliance Building 2018 QDF_7,8 QDF_3,5, 6 Future QDFs (policy influencing) Future QDFs (Urgent)
- 12. Large Scale Land Acquisition & Responsible Investment Recognition of Customary Tenure Alliance Priorities (Regional and Country level)
- 13. Learning and Alliance Building • Providing venue and experts for discussing key issues and strategies • Conducting and supporting research • Jointly supporting learning activities – Case study tours, exchange visits • Providing training (future options) • A platform for instigating QDF and IF project proposals
- 14. L&A Year 1 instigated activities -national level- • Laos – Dialogue with MONRE and CSOs on the Communal Land Registration and Titling. Another group working with Ministry of Justice on legal education. Third group working with Ministry of Planning and Investment and Private Sector companies on Corporate Social Responsibility in land based investments. • Vietnam – 4 separate multi-stakeholder activity groups undertaking case studies, dialogue and workshop series, addressing issues of forest governance, resettlement compensation, women’s rights awareness and people’s participation in monitoring land administration.
- 15. L&A Year 1 instigated activities -national level- • Cambodia – Star Kampuchea were engaged to conduct case studies on land conflict, Seminar was organised on 22nd Dec to discuss the cancellend Economic Land Concessions with Government, Academia and NGOs. MRLG contributed to NGO forum reporting on the ‘land situation’ during the National Advocacy Conference in early November, and a 3rd group are receiving training on community strengthening for Indigenous People’s communities. • Myanmar Youth organisations working with a Customary tenure expert to be trained in documenting customary tenure practices.
- 16. • Released a research study on the political economy of land governance in each country & regional synthesis, www.mrlg.org. • Online resource of land governance publications, grey literature, annotated bibliographies, synopsis of key thematic topics. http://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/mlrf/ • The Mekong Land Research Forum will have it’s inaugural meeting on 24-25th February – Aim is to contribute toward evidence-based progressive policy reform in key areas of land governance.
- 17. Changes in L&A Process • Year 1&2 was ‘demand’ driven short term activities (learning and advocacy), conducted by groups of interested “like minded” organisations • Year 3&4 focus towards Alliance/ Coalition building with long term action agenda – Need to build broader coalitions, including government, Private sector… – What are the current contributions, and by who (most people here today) & – what more be added, and who is not here! ?
- 18. Ongoing MRLG Capacity Assessment Survey (CAS) Reform Actors Self assessment about their knowledge, core functions and functional capacities Completed: Viet Nam and Cambodia To do, in March: Laos and Myanmar Other Stakeholders Interviews and focal groups discussions by Land Governance specialist Commenced: Laos and Cambodia To do, in March: Viet Nam, date TBC Myanmar.
- 19. Where are we? • Analyzing, results will be presented to the Reform actors in workshops • Preliminary findings: – Good knowledge about the Legal texts. – Less understanding about institutional functions. – Diversity of CSOs working on land governance issues, requiring technical strengthening for land governance processes: • Registration or recognition of land rights • Protection of existing rights • Advocacy – Academia is teaching focused rather than research focus.
- 20. Expected CAS Outputs • Draft training plan for Reform Actors • Stakeholder Working Profile • Identification of potential service providers for sharing and teaching on approaches to improved land governance & core function training.
- 21. Is there something more than workshops … …
- 22. Information Platform for Knowledge Exchange Moderated web-portal focused around solutions and repackaged targeted information. Linking and supporting dialogue platforms and alliance building
- 23. The Mekong Land Information Knowledge and Engagement Platform (M-LIKE) is dedicated to bringing together communities, private sector, government officials and civil society organizations to dialogue around new knowledge and solutions so as to ensure the secure land tenure of small holders in Lao, Cambodia, Viet Nam and Myanmar.
- 24. Let’s talk Grant Facility … …
- 25. Funded QDF Projects Working Title Proponent USD Status INRM for Food Security - Capacity Development Framework for an Integrated Approach, Laos PDR LIWG, Village Focus International $49,265 Complete CSO Pre-consultations on Myanmar National Land Use Policy, Myanmar Land Core Group $50,000 Complete Rubber Baron Accountability Project: Preparing and Assisting Affected Communities for Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) Process, Cambodia Equitable Cambodia $33,076 Complete Recommendation for Draft Decree V-1 on Land Policy, Vietnam S-CODE $48,505 Complete
- 26. QDF Projects ongoing Working Title Proponent USD Status Representing IP Community in Orona Village against the Encroachment on the Collective Registered Land, Cambodia Vishnu Law Group $40,571 Ongoing Establishment of Community Forest for Cancelled ELCs in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia RECOFTC $ 42,980 Started … Facilitating Private Sector Leadership to Address Land Governance Issues in the Lao Eucalypt and Tea Sectors, Lao PDR Earth Systems Laos $ 49,860 Under contract negotiation … Strict urgency or policy intervention criteria must be met. A maximum of 18 QDF projects can still be funded.
- 27. Cambodia 29% Laos 14% Myanmar 7% Vietnam 24% Regional Projects 26% Innovation Fund 1st Call Proposals Received Round 1 58 proposals received. 20 longlisted – AC evaluation. 11 shortlisted – PSC approval 10 awarded. 9 commenced.
- 28. Innovation Fund Projects Implementing partners include … • CAP-IPSARD in Vietnam • Oxfam with Landa, ForLand in Vietnam • RECOFTC in Vietnam • Inclusive Development International with Equitable Cambodia, in CMV • Oxfam-Novib, in CLMV • Land Core Group with Namati, in Myanmar • Earth Rights International with Puang Ku, Myanmar • Forest Trends, with many partners, CLMV • Open Development Mekong, in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos
- 29. 2nd Innovation Fund Call Call opens … 14th March 2016 Preference towards proposals from government institutions, private sector organizations or other organizations jointly implementing with government and/or private sector organizations. Innovative project proposals must: • pursue multi-stakeholder collaborations • improve the tenure security of family farmers • Thematic focus on: land rights and customary tenure recognition; regulation of large scale land acquisition; and responsible land-based investments; and land conflict transformation
- 30. www.mrlg.org
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to our Regional Consultation Workshop. It is a great pleasure to have you here today to join us in this journey. We are all here sharing in a common interest, an interest to work on the challenges faced by family farmers in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Viet Nam who are unable to maintain fair, equitable, and secure rights and access to land and natural resources. As the populations in all four countries are predominantly rural, the Mekong Region Land Governance Project focuses on the challenges that smallholder farmers are increasingly facing. How can national economic and social development policies balance their development strategies and interests to increase economies while also safeguarding social and environmental interests. While the challenges are large, and global, there are opportunities for solutions, that are local. There will be no blue print because of the historical, geographic, political, and socio-economic differences, but certainly there are lessons and solutions that are valuable to share. When land no longer remains domestically governed, then neither does food security. Finding the balance between strong national economies, sustainable environmental resources and peaceful harmonised social fabric is difficult, to say the least. When do economic policies for foreign and domestic investment, rapidly planned urbanisations through the demarcation of special economic zones and land concession with tax breaks and long term tenure security truly account for the livelihood, labour and environmental land uses, strongly skewing markets without necessarily sound future projections. MRLG seeks to jointly work on the issue of land and natural resource tenure security, an issue central to many deeply worrying issues around the globe. As we talk about land governance, it’s important that we have a common understanding. We are talking about procedures, policies, processes and institutions by which land, property and other natural resources are managed. This pertains to decisions on access to land, rights to land, uses of land, and land development. Land Governance is complex by its interconnectedness to economic, social and environmental values let alone the layers of interested parties from Regional, National, provincial/state etc all the way to community/s and villages. All countries have evolving modalities to deal with these challenges and MRLG and all our partners are eager to continue to support this.
- Last year … erquest for more debate. ….
- Reflect Present Action forward. MRLG aims to provide opportunities for those working with this goal, whether you come from government, private sector, civil society, academia, as an individual or an organisation, so that you be as effective as possibly in what you do. We strive to support effective partners working together so to bring about opportunities to influence effective solutions and suggestions towards policy and practice. As you will see today, the MRLG project has and will provide aim for actors to be most effective as they can be through capacity building opportunities, by sharing and networking with a range of different stakeholders, and by providing exchange opportunities to learn other methods for adapting to your own needs.
- What are our objectives? To strengthen various stakeholder’s individual and enlarge the collective capacity of stakeholders to address problems and seek and share solutions and To use effectiveness of alliance members to influence policy and practices … at the regional and national level in favour of smallholder’s tenure security. This requires joint commitment to ongoing activities, to continuing to reflect on skills and training requirements, and to reflect on the process and share lessons with others. A key component to enlarging the alliance and providing opportunities for sharing and learning will be through the Regional Information Platform component that has been designed over the past 8 months, led by Michael Victor and a team of consultants including Phut and Stew Motta
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- Primary Enlarging dialogue and influence through multi-stakeholder cooperation. Secondary Sharing and converging on existing and new initiatives Supporting capacity building and learning activities by reform actors Facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue MRLG coordinates and facilitates jointly planned activities at country and regional level, through: National Land Governance Facilitators Project partners Thematic Consulting Specialists
- Laos – Private sector engagement group conducted CSR workshop with MPI and a study tour of agricultural plantations, legal education group working together between CLE, GIZ and VFI for developing a toolkit, support to LSSWG on going discussion to undertake case studies.
- Demand driven discussion on country context and issues Activity Planning Plan of Action (until March 2016) organisations proposed activities with short term focus… Limited focus group discussions Multi-stakeholder approach Contracting a focal point for implementation Limited scope and approach Year 3 planning Review of Issue and Policy Analysis for each country, change to main priorities cross cutting at regional and country level Focus on alliance building instead of single activities and events, and creating more regional exchange opportunities. Preliminary focal group discussion and requesting alignment and defintion of the policy direction Develop issue depth and analysis Workshop seeks a Plan of Action (up to 2018) And endeavours to plan with sustainability in mind. The PIU has a coordination and facilitation unit for the preparation and support of the L&A activities at country level. This unit also addresses capacity assessment and needs identification. We envisage jointly preparing activities with project stakeholders throughout the year flexibly in response to ‘smart offers’ addressing technical and core competency support of reform actors. It is therefore important for everyone participating today to share their activities, and identify gaps that MRLG can fill. In addition but linked closely to the Learning and Alliance Building component of MRLG year 3 will see a Regional Information Platform established. The design is near completion after 8 months of consultation to ensure it is not duplicating existing efforts in attempts to document solutions (learnt through the MRLG L&A, QDF and IF activities and identified examples by others), provide some regional sense making from existing data sources, and provide a platform for online and face to face dialogue, linking as much as possible partners across the region to each other and broader international initiatives. Phouttasin one of the design team members will explain this information platform concept. ,
- The Mekong Land Information Knowledge and Engagement Platform (M-LIKE) is dedicated to bringing together communities, private sector, government officials and civil society organizations to dialogue around new knowledge and solutions so as to ensure the secure land tenure of small holders in Lao, Cambodia, Viet Nam and Myanmar.
- Response to critical tenure security issues involving vulnerable smallholder farmers. Response to windows of opportunity to influence policy development processes
- Open call proponents asked to meet critieria: innovative / pilot project contributions to helping farming families in CLMV countries, especially those belonging to ethnic minorities, have secure and equitable access to and control over agricultural land, forest and fisheries.