Systematic Land registration in Rural Areas of Lao PDR – from Concept to Scale
Julian Derbidge, Viladeth Sisoulath
Low land tenure security and increasing large scale land acquisition excerpt pressure on farmers and land owners in Laos. Since the 1990s, the country has undergone certain land reform initiatives, focusing initially on the registration and title issuance of individual land in urban areas. The first Land Titling projects between 1997 and 2009 resulted in the registration of some 650,000 plots, of an estimated 2,6 Million. Since 2009, the GIZ has supported the establishment of land registration and titling in rural areas. Several successive projects have resulted in the registration of more than 40,000 plots and the establishment of a comprehensive Concept for Systematic Land Registration, which describes the requirements and principles, legal framework, technical approach, workflow and capacity development. The Concept, alongside strong political will and a foreseeable improved legal framework in Laos provide a sound foundation for a full-scale implementation.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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