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LAND TENURE PROJECT

MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS | NOVEMBER 2016

COMING UP NEXT Minhla Villages Receive Results of LandPicture:


MappingCSO representative explains village
Study
boundaries map to participants at Folio
MONTH
ceremony event.
• 1st Dec- Investment and CSO
Engagement Workshop
In the farming areas of Minhla
township, community
• 8th Dec-Tenure/Gender training for
CSOs offered by Landesa under Sub- representatives gathered at the Bant
contract to LTP
Bway Gone monastery to receive
•12th – 16th Dec- 1. Local Organization
Recipients of Sub-contracts, receive
the results of their participation in
training on PM approaches and tools. USAID's Land Tenure Project.
2. Meeting with MONREC-FD, DALMS
in Heho PS#2 Initiated in 2015, the study invited
the four villages in pilot site #1 to
ABOUT THE PROJECT join in land assessment and
The USAID Land Tenure participatory mapping activities.
Project supports During the activities, community
communities, civil society members from Bant Bway Gone,
organizations (CSO) and
local authorities to work
San Gyi, Yway Gone and Heingyu determined village boundaries,
together in order to increase studied land and resource use, and became familiar with property rights
transparency, undertake and new land legislation. On 8 November, each village received a folio,
dispute resolution and assist which contains all the data created including tables, land Use Policy
in the development of more book, maps and land use types. This folio remains in the village and
equitable land policy and
legislation
copies are provided to local authorities at the village tract and township
level.
LOCAL PROJECT
PARTNERS
Local Government Leaders Welcome Land Tenure
Public Network MinHla
Stakeholders
Township at PS#1 Land Tenure team members and civil society organization leaders met
with government following the event in Minhla Vilage. Government
Farmer and Land Workers
Union at PS#2
officials from GAD, the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environmental Conservation and the Department of Agricultural Land
Management and Statistics welcomed the results of the village tract
CONTACT DETAILS activities. This meeting was significant as the first time government
authorities could view the new documentation and all three government
Nick Thomas,
ministries overseeing land were present for review. The representatives
Country Coordinator
nick.thomas@tetratech.com were pleased with the results and the community involvement of the
project and eager to put it to use.
Learn more information on Land Tenure: land-links.org
View photos of these highlights here
Monthly Newsletter USAID Land Tenure Project

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