Sangthong District Land Management

Authorities (DLMA)

Sustainable Women Empowerment Project, Sangthong District

Lounthong Bounemany, Chief of DLMA

Towards Communal Land Titles

in Sangthong District

Overview of Sangthong

• Sangthong district is one of nine districts of Vientiane prefecture

and it was the 8th district established on 23 November 1993.

Located is 55 Km along the Mekong River to the north.

In the north bordering Mead, Feuang and HinHeap districts,

Vientiane province

In the south bordering Sikottabong, Vientiane Capital.

In the east bordering Phouphanang National Park (Phonehong

and Naxaythong districts)

to the west bordering with Mekong River

General information: 37 villages divided into 5 clusters and 461

units; 5,484 HH and population: 28,266, women 13,946; Lao

loum 92,96%, Kamu 7%, Hmong 0.02%

Agriculture based: 95.5 %; public service 2.52 %; trade and

services 1.98%.

Land Use Planning:

Between

-0

to

-

-

DLMA implemented

land use planning in village and cluster level by

collaborating with concerned stakeholders, chief of

villages and village land committee.

DLMA divided into 5 teams collected information and

processed data into data base

Using the pictures from (Quick bird) and Landsat-7 as

well as Indian satellite picture for identified areas

Picture from Quickbird

Sangthong and Village clusters

Cluster number

Name of cluster

Area (ha)

Percentage %

1

Ban Kuappeang

10,866.635

14.30

2

Ban Kok Hae

15,902.004

20.09

3

Ban Phialath

8,367.724

11.01

4

Ban Nalath

14,936.975

19.66

5

Ban Kouay

25,908.091

34.10

Total

75,981.430

100 %

The area of village cluster

Map of Land use in Sangthong

Types of Land Use

The area of land used in Sangthong

No Type of Land Area in hectare Percentage

1 Construction land 1687.21 2.22

2 Agriculture land 29916.63 39.37

3 Forest land 38782.97 51.04

4 Culture land 237.62 0.3

5 Wet land 4238.7 5.58

6 Industrial land 485.48 0.64

7 Transport land (road) 534.53 0.7

8 Defense land 35.628 0.05

9 Other 73.3 0.1

Total 75992.068 100

Management plan regulations

Formal agreement village boundaries

Drafted village regulations.

Nominated two volunteers to manage

village land.

Form for following up village land use

Selecting the good unit model.

Characteristic and potentials of Sangthong

Located along the Mekong River and trading and services with Thai border and VTE Capital

Has high potential for food production, livestock raising and handicrafts

Potential in term of minerals

Important issues required to register communal land

tiltles in 4 villages

1. People need to see the benefits of bamboo

before it can become an incentive to manage

forest

2. Land use planning

3. Identification forest types (Production

forest)

4. Inventory (bamboo, rattan)

5. Forest management plan

Prepare to registration communal land tilting deeds

See 5 steps

Public hearing (village consultation meeting)

Collecting information with chief of village and villagers for

investigation history of the land

Boundary milestone (boundary marking) only production forest

Measuring by using GPS and drawing map koh-1 and ask private

land owners with shared borders to “finger print” (slide 13)

Use the data from koh-1 to draw the map in koh-2 form

certificated by chief of village (slide 13)

Request temporary communal land titling deeds from DLMA

(samnouan khamhong form, 5 pages, slide 14-16)

After 90 days if no comments and feedback from villagers or other

stakeholders in the district the permanent communal land tiling

deed is issued to the village (see slide 17)

After 3 years need the permanent tile needs to be reviewed to get

re-approval

Results to date

Village Village

area (ha)

Selected

management

area (ha)

(2010)

Bamboo

(%)

Proposed

communal land

(ha) by DLMA

(2011)

Ban Na Po 2,591.16 50 60 43.77

Ban Vang

Mar

7,981.34 85 85 38.39

Ban

Kouay

6,035 60 80 138.48

Ban Xor 8,281.5 337 95 1,887.01

Total 24,889 532 2,107.65

1

2

Mapping and certifying communal land

samnouan khamhong form

samnouan khamhong form

samnouan khamhong form

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02.09.2011 ມາຈຉາສວຌ:

ຌະຬຌຫລວຄວຽຄຌ

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ກຂ 197 ມ ຂ 186 ມ ຄ 131 ມ

ຄ 239 ມ ສ 71 ມ ສຆ 144 ມ

ຆງ 232 ມ ງຈ 32 ມ ຈຉ 145 ມ

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Example Communal land title