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May 2, 2023 1
How the Land Tenure Project’s Participatory Mapping Manual Provides Land Open Data to Promote Responsible Investment
Emiko GutheCountry Coordinator
28 February 2017
U Ng
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USAID Land Tenure Project Objectives• Support broad based economic development• Improve livelihoods in rural communities• Encourage sustainable land use management• Assist resilient community development
• How?– Strengthening community land tenure and use rights– Increasing participation of rural communities– Supporting the Government of Myanmar to implement laws associated
with NLUP
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LTP FIELD COMPONENTS• Communications and
Educational Outreach– Civil society training– Grassroots community
engagement– Awareness building with
local authorities• Pilot Site Activity Development
– Site selection– Stakeholder Engagement– Community Mapping
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• Guided by MOU with Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) – Forest Department
• Pilot Site Objectives– Evaluate technical approaches that
respond to articles of the NLUP– Engage with all local stakeholders –
communities, CSOs, private sector, and local authorities
– Generate lessons learned to inform development of land legislation
PILOT SITES
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• Methodology to document community land resources
• Fast, affordable, replicable, inclusive• Capture community claims in a
format that government and private sector can recognize
• Utilize mobile technologies to facilitate rapid, high quality data capture and management
• Civil society organizations lead the participatory mapping process
DEVELOPMENT OF A PARTICIPATORY MAPPING MANUAL
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PARTICIPATORY MAPPING MANUAL
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1. Land Tenure Assessment2. Mapping Activities3. Stakeholder Engagement
PARTICIPATORY APPROACH STAGES
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• Coordination with local authorities, especially Village Tract Administrator
• Coordination with private companies• Community members introduced to
the objectives of mapping work to build trust
• Tenure and resource assessment describes existing resources, community land administration and existing disputes
• Process led by civil society organizations
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STAGE 1: LAND TENURE AND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
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STAGE 2: MAPPING ACTIVITIES• Sketch mapping using increasing spatial
accuracy– Paper sketch– “UTM” mapping– Sketch over satellite imagery
• Boundary walk using GPS-enabled tablets– Mapping community boundaries
• Land use inventory of land types– Mapping current land use
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MAPPING OUTPUTS
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STAGE 3: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT• Tenure assessment and mapping outputs
produced• Outputs are shared with local, district and
regional authorities• Communities have maps and village folios
that document their community boundaries and land use
• Encouraging the use of maps for engagement with local authorities and private sector
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NEXT STEPS AND OPEN DATA
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• Community members generate and document their community boundaries and land use
• Tool for engagement with local authorities and private sector actors
• Mapping outputs clearly document community perceptions in format that can be consumed by modern software
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TRANSPARENT LOCALIZED OPEN DATA
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SCALING AND REPLICABILITY
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• Four civil society contractors testing participatory mapping approach
• Recognized need to develop mapping standards for interoperability
• Working at project level across CSOs to develop data standards
• Sharing lessons learned to help develop minimum participatory mapping requirements with other programs engaged in participatory mapping in Myanmar
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