The project “Enhancing sustainable access of ethnic minority communities, especially women and the poor, to forestland and forests through a transparent and participatory process of reallocation of land from State Forest Enterprises in Hoa Binh Province” implemented by the Research Center for Initiatives of Community Development (RIC) from March 2017 to August 2018 with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) through the Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) Project, has generated a number of results that have contributed to the reallocation of land from local agricultural and forestry enterprises to the localities. The project has assisted the local authorities and the people in developing pilot land use plans for reallocated land from agricultural and forestry enterprises and establishing the procedures for developing land reallocation plans derived from agricultural and forestry enterprises.
Based on the results and lessons learned from the implementation of the project, “Handbook on guidance in the development of land use plans for land areas derived from agricultural and forestry enterprises” was compiled as a reference material to provide useful and easy-to-use tools for local authorities and people to use in the development of land use plans for land areas derived from agricultural and forestry enterprises, ensuring the compliance with laws, accountability, transparency, efficiency and people’s participation.
We would like to express our sincere thanks to the MRLG project, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Hoa Binh Province, the authorities, the people in the project areas and the experts who have given consultation to, commented and co-operated with the project in recent time.
This is a pilot product, so there will definitely be some shortcomings. We look forward to receiving feedback from you so that the Handbook can be finalized to create a premise for the practical application in other localities.
Le Van Hai
Director of RIC
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