USAID Land Tenure Project Objectives Support broad based economic development Improve livelihoods in rural communities Encourage sustainable land use management Assist resilient community development

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How the Land Tenure Project’s Participatory
Mapping Manual Provides Land Open Data to
Promote Responsible Investment
Emiko Guthe
Country Coordinator
28 February 2017
UNgweThein
10 March 2017

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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

4. • 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
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PILOT SITES
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5. • 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
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DEVELOPMENT OF A PARTICIPATORY MAPPING
MANUAL

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KHINMYATMOE
PARTICIPATORY MAPPING MANUAL

7. 1. Land Tenure Assessment
2. Mapping Activities
3. Stakeholder Engagement
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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
KHINMYATMOE
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

12. NEXT STEPS AND OPEN
DATA
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KHINMYATMOE

13. • 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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EMIKO GUTHE
emiko.guthe@tetratech.com