Showing posts with label Land reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Land reform. Show all posts
Friday, September 14, 2012
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Monday, March 26, 2012
EU assists land reform
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| Boeung Kak protesters surround scarecrows representing corrupt officials in the capital last week. Photo by Meng Kimlong |
Monday, 26 March 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
The European Union had provided more than US$265,000 to a land reform project that aimed to shift political will and opinion towards land and human rights in Cambodia, development partners said yesterday.
The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights will spearhead the Cambodian Land Law Reform Project, which aims to make land rights an election issue for the 2012 commune and the 2013 national assembly elections.
“The failure of the existing laws, institutions and procedures to protect the rights of ordinary Cambodians is the biggest problem in Cambodia today,” project co-ordinator Ouch Leng said by telephone yesterday.
Ouch Leng said a key part of the project was to raise awareness with media campaigns and civil society meetings.
In a press release published yesterday, CCHR said an online map detailing land conflicts around the country would also be published.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Monday, August 30, 2010
Berlin notes land rights in aid statement [Berlin setting up the example?]
Monday, 30 August 2010
Will Baxter and Sun Narin
The Phnom Penh Post
Will Baxter and Sun Narin
The Phnom Penh Post
GERMANY has said that up to €4 million (about US$5.1 million) earmarked for technical assistance to land sector reforms in 2011 and 2012 “will be contingent upon further strengthening the implementation of human rights”.
A statement issued by the German embassy on Friday said that “Germany’s future contribution in the land sector” in Cambodia would address relevant human rights issues that include “supporting indigenous communities in securing their land rights” and supporting the government “in progressively solving urban informal settlement issues in accordance with Cambodian law”.
But although the wording of the statement would appear to imply that Germany might decide to withhold funding should Cambodia fail to improve its human rights record in the land sector, an embassy official said yesterday that the statement was somewhat misleading, and noted instead that Germany’s “future support will focus on human rights issues”.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, declined to elaborate.
Nonn Pheany, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Land Management, said Germany’s pledge marked a significant increase from its previous contribution of $3,823,200 from 2008 to 2010, which focused on land registration, training and legal tools.
The next step, she said, is for the ministry to compile a list of land-reform issues it wants to address, and to present the list to the German government for consideration. “We do not know specifically what points will be chosen by the German side,” she added.
David Pred, executive director of Bridges Across Borders Cambodia, said yesterday that Germany should press the government to meet “specific human rights benchmarks”.
Chhith Sam Ath, executive director of the NGO Forum on Cambodia, said he welcomed Germany’s “continued support in the land-reform sector”.
But he said that it was essential for donors to “look carefully” at projects involving “urban resettlement” or displacement of “vulnerable groups” such as ethnic minorities.
A statement issued by the German embassy on Friday said that “Germany’s future contribution in the land sector” in Cambodia would address relevant human rights issues that include “supporting indigenous communities in securing their land rights” and supporting the government “in progressively solving urban informal settlement issues in accordance with Cambodian law”.
But although the wording of the statement would appear to imply that Germany might decide to withhold funding should Cambodia fail to improve its human rights record in the land sector, an embassy official said yesterday that the statement was somewhat misleading, and noted instead that Germany’s “future support will focus on human rights issues”.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, declined to elaborate.
Nonn Pheany, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Land Management, said Germany’s pledge marked a significant increase from its previous contribution of $3,823,200 from 2008 to 2010, which focused on land registration, training and legal tools.
The next step, she said, is for the ministry to compile a list of land-reform issues it wants to address, and to present the list to the German government for consideration. “We do not know specifically what points will be chosen by the German side,” she added.
David Pred, executive director of Bridges Across Borders Cambodia, said yesterday that Germany should press the government to meet “specific human rights benchmarks”.
Chhith Sam Ath, executive director of the NGO Forum on Cambodia, said he welcomed Germany’s “continued support in the land-reform sector”.
But he said that it was essential for donors to “look carefully” at projects involving “urban resettlement” or displacement of “vulnerable groups” such as ethnic minorities.
Monday, August 31, 2009
World Bank in talks with Cambodia over evictions
Monday, August 31, 2009
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A senior World Bank official held talks with the Cambodian government over the forced eviction of people from their homes and said the development bank would continue to work with it on land reform to tackle the problem.
Land ownership is a controversial issue in Cambodia, where legal documents were destroyed and state institutions collapsed under the Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s and the civil war that followed.
The World Bank joined with other aid donors in July to ask the government to halt forced evictions and the problem was raised again by its vice-president for East Asia and the Pacific Region, James Adams, during a visit last week.
"A major focus of the visit was Cambodia's urban land sector and the increasing numbers of disputes and evictions of poor people in urban settlements," the bank said in a statement.
"The discussions on land reform were constructive and it was agreed to continue these discussions over the coming week to agree next steps," it said.
The bank has provided funding of $24.3 million for a land management and administration project from 2002 to 2009, and an estimated 1.1 million land titles were issued, said Bou Saroeun, a spokesman for the World Bank in Phnom Penh.
Other donors such as Germany, Finland and Canada have together provided more than $14 million to support the land title project, Saroeun added.
(Reporting by Ek Madra; Editing by Alan Raybould)
Land ownership is a controversial issue in Cambodia, where legal documents were destroyed and state institutions collapsed under the Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s and the civil war that followed.
The World Bank joined with other aid donors in July to ask the government to halt forced evictions and the problem was raised again by its vice-president for East Asia and the Pacific Region, James Adams, during a visit last week.
"A major focus of the visit was Cambodia's urban land sector and the increasing numbers of disputes and evictions of poor people in urban settlements," the bank said in a statement.
"The discussions on land reform were constructive and it was agreed to continue these discussions over the coming week to agree next steps," it said.
The bank has provided funding of $24.3 million for a land management and administration project from 2002 to 2009, and an estimated 1.1 million land titles were issued, said Bou Saroeun, a spokesman for the World Bank in Phnom Penh.
Other donors such as Germany, Finland and Canada have together provided more than $14 million to support the land title project, Saroeun added.
(Reporting by Ek Madra; Editing by Alan Raybould)
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