• Contact: Vorasone Dengkayaphichith
  • Address: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Laos, Unit 15, House No.143, Phonthan Neua Village Saysettha District, Vientiane Capital, LAW PDR
  • Phone: +856 30 981 5657
  • Email: info@laolandinfo.org
  • Web: laolandinfo.org/en/
  • Members:
    LIWG

LIWG

Land Information Working Group

Member since: 2024

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
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Equal land rights for women

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Mission

Support and facilitate CSOs and development partners to work on land issues, and promote cooperation through dialogue and engagement on land, governance research, policy and practice. Provide a platform for members to exchange expertise, experiences, facilitate information sharing and policy influencing at regional and central level and between partners/members.

Objectives

1: Build connections and trust, develop spaces and channels of communication, share knowledge for dialogue and engagement in land governance issues.
2: Mainstream grassroots implementation of land rights through mobilization of members and other stakeholders
3: Promote policy dialogue among multiple stakeholders to improve land tenure security

Constituencies

LIWG is a civil society network with over 90 core and supporting organisational members and 300 individual members.
LIWG has existed in the Lao PDR since 2007 with a Secretariat established in 2011.It maintains a semi-formal status in Laos, and has an established governance structure and constitution.

  • Contact: Vorasone Dengkayaphichith
  • Address: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Laos, Unit 15, House No.143, Phonthan Neua Village Saysettha District, Vientiane Capital, LAW PDR
  • Phone: +856 30 981 5657
  • Email: info@laolandinfo.org
  • Web: laolandinfo.org/en/
  • Members:
    LIWG