Professional education program for land management and land administration in Cambodia
Sopha, Soun, Jan-Peter Mund and Vung Setha
Land Management and Land Administration is defined as a system of planning, management and administration methods and techniques that aims to integrate ecological with social, economic and legal principles in the management of land for urban and rural development purposes. The main objective is to meet changing and developing human needs, while simultaneously ensuring long-term productive potential of natural resources together with maintenance of inherent environmental and cultural functions. Therefore, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries initiate a long term capacity building process for Land Management in Cambodia. Subsequently the Royal University of Agriculture in Phnom Penh got the task in 2002 to set up a Bachelor program and a short-course training to obtain a Diploma degree for continuous education of ministry staff. In Cambodia, no such education was ever offered until the establishment of the new Faculty of Land Management and Land Administration within the Royal University of Agriculture. Consequently there was a deficient in human resources to develop the new curriculum and to establish the faculty on national level. The initiative is academically supervised by the Technical University of Munich and financially supported by a loan from the World Bank with technical assistance from the German Government. Since 2003 Royal University of Agriculture has been implementing the program in close collaboration with Component 2 of the Land Management and Administration Project on national level. Continuously the LMAP project will provide support to improve, organize and manage the new education program on land management and administration within a long-established Cambodian university.
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