Usaid experience securing land and resource rights for forest landscapes
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Presentation at the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
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Usaid experience securing land and resource rights for forest landscapes
- 1. LandTenure & Resource Management USAID Experience Securing land and resource rights for forest landscapes 6 December 2015
- 3. WHY DOESTENURE SECURITY ENTER THE REDD+ DISCUSSION? “Current land use and customary and legal property rights including community property … identifying ongoing or unresolved conflicts… disputes over land tenure that were resolved during the last ten years.” -CCB Land tenure and resource rights… identify rights- holders, guide the design of the ER Program, benefit sharing plans, and demonstrate ability to transfer Title to ERs. - CF Method Framework. A description of legal title to the land, rights of access to the sequestered carbon, current land tenure and land use. - CDM
- 4. WHERE DOESTENURE SECURITY ENTERTHE REDD+ DISCUSSION? • Contextual Basis for Program Design (Enabling Environment) • Strengthened Land and Resource Rights as a Program Activity (Intervention) • Strengthened Land and Resource Rights as an Outcome (Benefit)
- 5. Too Expensive Too Political Too Complicated Too M uchT im e Too Many Stakeholders
- 6. PROGRAM DESIGN • What are the current tenure systems, stakeholders and incentives governing forest? • Are there legitimate stakeholders who are missing out? • Procedural Rights: • Consultation, Consent,Active Decisions, Benefit • USAID-supported Resource Rights Assessments in Nepal, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras
- 7. “In two years, companies have used a legal loophole to parcel logging contracts covering a quarter of the country’s land” TENURE AS A POLICY INTERVENTION Recognizing customary rights at same level as statutory rights (USAID Liberia LRCFP and PROSPER)
- 8. TENURE AS A POLICY INTERVENTION Tree tenure reform: devolving tree rights with land rights Regreening of the Sahel (USAID West Africa) Photo: Darren Jacobson, 2005 from Stickler, M 2012
- 9. TENURE AS AN POLICY INTERVENTION Supporting development of integrated land policy Coastal forest policy (USAID Forest and Deltas Project, Vietnam)
- 10. TENURE AS AN INTERVENTION Clear tenure rights unlocked the ability to engage on management & enforcement responsibilities
- 11. TENURE AS AN INTERVENTION Piloting land and resource rights documentation to inform legislation (USAID Zambia – Tenure and Global Climate Change)
- 12. TENURE AS AN INTERVENTION Piloting policy through registration of land and resource rights (USAID Indonesia – IFACS and LESTARI)
- 13. USAID ANALYTICAL AND IMPLEMENTATIONTOOLS
- 14. POLICY INTERVENTIONS Recognize customary rights at the same level at statutory rights Devolve rights to trees to flow with land rights Develop integrated/holistic land policy (not sector driven policy) FIELD INTERVENTIONS Focus on management and enforcement once legal rights clarified Document household and community resource rights to: • Inform policy development; and • Demonstrate progressive policy.
Editor's Notes
- Ownership is Bundle of Rights: Rarely is the full bundle of rights devolved to any one authority . No change, no additionality Impact peoples’ land and resource rights Where this equation does not make sense for practical or . Apply a tenure intervention. Tenure Rights = Carrots No Tenure Rights = Stick <number>
- Community Rights Law of 2008 (applying to forest lands) Benefited from having their customary land rights recognized that allowed them to negotiate with the concessionaires because the land was considered government lands. Nimba with Arcelor Mittal – Ba Community Sinoe with Golden Veruleum Even though the rights were weak… the rights were legitimized. But when it comes to legislation without the reach out to help people understand their rights. 2006 National Forest Reform legislation – private use permit (private ownership) Danger is that once mechanisms are opened Up to 2.3 million hectares could have been exploited, but in District 4 in Grand Bassa legislature aligned with timber concessaires aligned with communities to submit… one on behalf of the communities by elite to recognize, vs. one provided by elite. There are over 100 applications for Community Forest Management Agreements – it is elite <number>
- Decades of support to regreening the sahel. <number>
- Rodonia & Matto Grosso states in Brazil 248,147 ha protected Surui territory demarcated in 1983 and signed by the President giving them legal rights Carbon finance and enterprise development based on NTFP have helped to stem pressure <number>
- Supporting local institutions that are working in an area of active legal reform to consider whether documenting customary rights through traditional authorities will lead to adoption of sustainable land use practices. <number>
- Implementation of Hutan Desa status to allow communities to register the rights to manage the use of their forests. Piloting the legislation that allows for registration of rights <number>
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