Awareness and Coordination

  • To solve land issues, we support local people, indigenous peoples, women, and stakeholders to raise awareness and capacity.
  • Aim – Our aim for these processes is to increase the knowledge and capacity of affected local women, men, vulnerable groups, and indigenous peoples to strengthen their land rights and conservation and access to legal aid.
  • The process includes educating local people, indigenous peoples, vulnerable people, and women. In addition, it includes listening to the voices of residents, providing necessary information, and providing access to legal assistance.

Main activities

Conducting awareness about land

Locals from the project area must be selected for awareness raising and legal assistance activities, and systematic training must be done to become legal assistants. The trainers/teachers and legal assistants taught by our organization conduct trainings to inform residents about land ownership rights and rights under the existing law and community norms and perform capacity building to properly implement rights. In addition, discussions are held on cooperation in local land conservation activities with customary land systems. To further develop and assist in outreach activities, educational pamphlets on land are also published.

Preparing to assist land ownership rights, use rights, and conservation rights

The GPI organization addresses regionally diverse land use and ownership issues to assist with our legal assistance methods. Discussions are carried out on steps to identify and support the needs for conservation of natural resources through customary land systems maintained by residents. In doing so, legal aid workers prepare to collaborate and support better ways of land ownership rights, use rights, and conservation rights.

Discussing ways to collaborate

We discuss ways to help and improve land ownership, rights, and conservation rights. In addition, land ownership rights, rights, and maintenance rights include women’s land rights, and the discussions to strengthen the role of women in the land systems collectively maintained by residents are a key aspect.

As well as raising knowledge and capacity through training, promoting access to land justice with legal assistants

The GPI organization provides Land Law Land Rights awareness training and legal assistance programs that are very helpful to residents. Awareness training was conducted in many areas of Myanmar. Legal aid projects are implemented in Irrawaddy, Southern Rakhine, and Southern Shan State. The courses not only gained knowledge and skills for the individual trainees, but also benefited their families and the environment. The paralegal related to land has been able to provide long-term assistance for local people and indigenous people in the areas where the project has been carried out. Gaining awareness of land laws and land rights is beneficial for both individuals and the entire local community. It also leads to better performance in multi participatory decision-making. The creation of legal assistants is the creation of long-term development for strengthening the rule of law and justice related to land.