Guiding Principles:
Land Tenure in Development Cooperation

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Orientierungsrahmen:
Bodenrecht und Bodenordnung

 
Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Technische Zusammenarbeit
Abt. 45 / Div. 45

 

Michael Kirk (1996):
Land Tenure Development and Divestiture in Lao P.D.R.

Table of Contents:

Abbreviations
Executive Summary
I. Introduction
1. Issues and Objectives
2. Overview of the Transformation Process in Lao PDR
II. Land Policy and Resource Tenure Related Legislation
1. Land Policy as a Component of Development Guidelines: Recent Development and Cornerstones
2. Land, Forestry and Water Legislation
3. Resource Legislation within a Broader Legal and Regulatory Framework
4. Land Titling and Recording of Land for Land Tax Purposes: Interactions and Contradictions
5. Administration of Land and Related Resources
6. Customary Rights and Statutory Law: Integration, Interaction and Contradictions
7. Gender-related Issues and Problems
8. Access to Land, Land Tenure Regimes and Conditions of Land Use
III. Land Markets and the Privatization of Land Rights
1. Driving forces for the re-emergence of land markets in Laos
2. Urban Land Markets
3. Peri-urban Land Markets
4. Rural Land Markets
IV. Resource Tenure and the Role of Political and Economic Interest Groups
1. About the Dynamics of Interest Groups in Lao PDR
2. The State Party
3. The Military
4. Bureaucracy at Different Regional Levels
5. Smallholders
6. Village Communities
7. National Entrepreneurs
8. International Capital
9. International Donors
V. Land Conflicts and Conflict Resolution
VI. Resource Tenure and the role of Donors and NGO's
1. Donors and NGO's: Catalysts or secret shadow governments?
2. Multilateral Donors
3. Bilateral Donors
4. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's)
VII. Recommendations for Future Development Cooperation
1. Specific Requirements for Countries in the Process of Transformation
2. Possible Fields of Action
3. Organizational Development within Agencies of Development Cooperation
References
Annex 1
Annex 2 (Contents)