Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development

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The objective of the Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project for Cambodia is to improve the process for identification and use of state lands transferred to eligible, poor and formerly landless or land-poor recipients selected through a transparent and well-targeted process as indicated by: (a) the adoption rates of improved land management and agricultural production systems in Social Land Concession (SLC) sub-projects; (b) proportion of land recipients which meet poverty criteria and were landless or land-poor prior to project interventions; and (c) the effective implementation of dispute resolution procedures under the project, related to challenges to the land recipient selection process. There are four components to the project. The first component concerns commune based social land concession planning and land allocation. This component will provide training, incremental operating costs, goods, and contracted technical services to commune councils to prepare plans for SLC sub-projects. The second component concerns rural development services and investments. This component will provide subproject grants for the commune councils, working with the Land Recipients (LRs), to contract civil works, goods, technical assistance and training services identified in approved SLC sub-project plans. The third component concerns sustainable and transparent program development and will provide funding for technical assistance, salary incentives, training, incremental operating costs, small civil works, and vehicles and goods. At the national level, the component will support the General Secretariat for Social Land Concessions (GSSLC) for nationwide activities of information dissemination, technical and policy backstopping for provinces and evaluation of Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project (LASED) and SLC experiences to inform additional policy and institutional development in support of SLCs and potential program expansion. Finally, the fourth component concerns project administration and will support the national committee for the management of decentralization and deconcentration reform secretariat and Provincial Rural Development Committee-Provincial Executive Committee (PRDC-ExCom) to strengthen fiduciary and administrative capacity and reporting.