Social Policy Ecology Research Institute SPERI

Key comments for the Draft Land Law 2013

Land acquisition for socio-economic development and removal of commune-level land use planning as the Draft Land Law 2013 infringes the 1992 Constitution!? The Land Law must be born after the amendment 1992 Constitution as the Law is being renovated from the administrative and subsidized mechanisms to property governance (monetization) by the market means ...

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Evaluation of the continued proposal on Mekong Community Networking and Ecological Trading (MECO-ECOTRA 2010-2013)

The current program - MECO-ECOTRA for the period of 2010-2013 is the second three-years phase of the MECO-ECOTRA program. This phase is co-funded by ICCO, BftW, CCFD and NPA ...

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Criticism of the Draft Land Law 2013: Submission made to Land Law Drafting Team

We, as local Community Development Organizations working in partnership with the MECO-ECOTRA network and as senior experts in ethnic minority issues, would like to comment on the proposed Land Law Revision 2013 as ...

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Analysis of the inconsistencies for recommendations to the revision of articles 9, 26, 35,43 and 154 of the revised law on land in 2013

Pursuit to the plan No. 239/QD-TTg dated 28/01/2013 of the Prime Minister to consult opinions and feedbacks of the people to the draft revised law on land, we are Scientific Technology Organizations including Social Policy Ecology Research Institute (SPERI, Consultancy Institute on Development (CODE) and Culture Identity and Resource Use Management (CIRUM) and Center for Indigenous Knowledge Research and Development (CIRD) since 1995 have conducted surveys, studies and assessment about the management, protection and utilization of forest and land ...

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Fragile future of ethnic minorities - accidentally or intentionally inconsistent policies!

The nature of process of working closely paralleled in directing the comprehensive, thoroughly and urgently implementation between: "the Resolution 539/NQ-UBTVQH13 dated 30.10.2012 of the Standing Committee of the Vietnam National Assembly on the results of monitoring the implementation of policies and laws on residential and productive land for ethnic minorities" and "the Resolution of the VI Congress of the Party Central Committee term XIth on continuity to innovate policies and law on land in the period of accelerating the comprehensive the reform, laying foundations for ...

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The thirty steps of supervising and recovering land for the indigenous and ethnic minority people in Vietnam and Lao by SPERI methodologies

Here are the thirty steps of supervising and recovering land for the indigenous and ethnic minority people in Vietnam and Lao. These methodological steps have been developed by SPERI over nearly 20 years ago ...

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Land and forest for ethnic minorities

Some main discrepancies are that ethnic minorities do not have efficient productive and residential land; ethnic minorities are capable of planting, tending and protecting forest, but are limited in accessing to forest land rights. So, they disgruntled and requested why do not they have forest land to escape the poverty ...

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The Legal Position of Community Forest in Vietnam

The Vietnam Law on Forest Protection and Development in 2004 legalizes that the community is only allocated the natural forest for management, but not entitled to have rights of the ownership ...

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