Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG)
Switzerland with its longstanding engagement and experience in land and natural resource management will support a last phase of the “Mekong Region Land Governance” project. This Swiss flagship project will continue to support Alliances of Reform-Actors, including policy-makers and civil society, to improve policy-making environment and implementation toward improved land tenure security for vulnerable family farmers in the Mekong region, particularly in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam.
| Paese/Regione | Tema | Periodo | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
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Mekong |
Agricoltura e sicurezza alimentare Governance nothemedefined
Politica agricola
Decentralizzazione |
01.01.2023
- 31.12.2025 |
CHF 8’875’000
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- 65 Alliance member institutions
- 30,000 smallholder farmers, of which 50% are women and 50% are ethnic minorities
- About 9 million people in CLMV, of which 50% are women and 50% are ethnic minorities will indirectly benefit from improved implementation of policies and practice in terms of tenure security
- Alliances have up-to-date strategies and work plans that strategically support smallholder tenure security
- Alliance members demonstrate improved capacities for policy and practice influence
- Alliances are broadly inclusive of key stakeholder groups, including women and ethnic minorities, and are engaged in policy dialogue and processes
- Knowledge products explaining and justifying improved policy options are developed, documented, and shared with target audiences
- Improved policy options are developed and documented
- Improved policy or practice options are consulted and communicated through policy processes and learning exchanges with decision-makers
- Improved policies or practices are implemented or scaled
- 16,700 smallholders (45% women and 53% ethnic minorities) were recipient of awareness raising about their tenure rights and/or had their tenure secured in pilot sites
- Legal backing for 1.5 million ethnic people in Lao PDR living in forest lands to assure their tenure rights
- 9 Alliances workstreams formed with strategic Workplans to engage in policy & practice improvement
- 6 evidence based-options for improved policy and practice related to Customary Tenure recognition and Responsible Agricultural Investment, have been developed, shared with targeted policy makers, and contributed to inform key national legislations
- 10 effective channel/platforms for contributions into Policy & Practice processes in CLMV and at regional level identified and used
- Alliances of Reform actors engaged in 9 cross-border networking events and learning platform
- 5 students graduated with Master’s Degree on land specialization
- SDC Field Office
- Land Equity International – LEI, mandate with direct award approved. Third party financing: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
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Settore in base alle categorie del Comitato di Aiuto allo sviluppo (DAC) dell'OCSE AGRICOLTURA
GOVERNO E SOCIETÀ CIVILE
Sotto-Settore in base alle categorie del Comitato di Aiuto allo sviluppo (DAC) dell'OCSE Politica agricola e gestione amministrativa
Decentralizzazione / governance locale / democratizzazione (obbligo di responsabilità incluso)
Temi trasversali Diminuizone dei conflitti
Il progetto sostiene anche miglioramenti nell'organizzazione partner
Tipo di aiuto Mandato con fondo fiduciario
Numero del progetto 7F08757
| Contesto | In an effort to boost economic development and alleviate rural poverty, the governments in the Mekong Region granted large-scale land concessions, to foreign and domestic companies. These investments accelerated in 2008 in response to the global financial crisis. By and large, the lands acquired for these land concessions were previously used by smallholder farmers who lost their land with little or no compensation. In recent years, governments increasingly recognised that large-scale concession policy, including weak regulation and oversight of these investments, has resulted in negative social and environmental costs and the erosion of public confidence in the political administration. In this context, SDC launched in 2014, the “Mekong Region Land Governance Project” (MRLG), which aims at improving tenure security of female and male smallholder farmers through improved land policy and practices. The project, which mainly works as a binding platform for strategic reform actors, has significantly contributed to a change in mind-set and policy making in the region. Since 2020, land-based investments appear to be ramping up again, and increasing commodity prices have led to growing interest in alternative forms in agriculture, such as through contract farming and in integrating Responsible Agriculture Investment in investment policies. This provide a relevant and strategic opportunity for the MRLG to continue engaging in the sector. Switzerland, Luxembourg and Germany have agreed to fund a third and last phase of MRLG to consolidate and sustain the achievements during and beyond the project period. |
| Obiettivi | Smallholder women and men farmers have secured and equitable access to and control over agriculture land and forest in the Mekong Region. |
| Gruppi target |
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| Effetti a medio termine |
Objective: Improved land policies and practices are approved and implemented in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam, and supported through regional platforms. Outcome 1: Reform actor alliances are inclusive and capacitated to engage strategically and sustainably in improving policy and practices. Outcome 2: Evidence based options for improved policy and practice and/or scaled implementation are strategically employed in change processes. Outcome 3: Public, private and civil society actors implement improved policies and practices. |
| Risultati |
Risultati principali attesi: Risultati fasi precedenti: |
| Direzione/Ufficio responsabile |
DSC |
| Partner del progetto |
Partner contrattuale ONG internazionale o straniera |
| Coordinamento con altri progetti e attori | MRLG Alliance members, including International NGOs working in land governance. Like-minded Development Partners such as Germany. Global, regional and bilateral projects engaged in land governance reform processes, particular those funded by Switzerland and Germany. |
| Budget | Fase in corso Budget Svizzera CHF 8’875’000 Budget svizzero attualmente già speso CHF 6’295’000 |
| Fasi del progetto | Fase 3 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025 (Fase in corso) Fase 2 01.07.2018 - 31.12.2022 (Active) Fase 1 01.05.2013 - 31.12.2018 (Active) |
