Land Reform Monitoring

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Land Reform Monitoring

• Presentation by
• Mr. Davlatsho Gulmahmadov
• Head of State Land Committee

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Land Reform in Tajikistan

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CHAIRMAN
FIRST DEPUTY
DEPUTY
DEPUTY
State Land Control Department
Land Works Registration, Planning and Financing
Department
Cadastre, Monitoring and registration department
Administration
Project Institute on Land Management
Tojikzaminsoz
Department on Economic Assessment Unit and
Payments
State Enterprise Markaz-Zamin
Sughd Oblast and District Land Committees
GBAO Oblast and District Land Committees
Khatlon Oblast and District Land Committees
District (DRD) (city) Land Committees
Land Managers at Jamoats
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Reorganization process of the agricultural
enterprises in Tajikistan

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Basic documents necessary for project drawing up
on agricultural enterprises reorganization and
maintenance of the land use right

• Balance on debts and credit information, in
  particular debts to future companies
• Information on available assets, machinery,
  buildings etc.
• Information on water, gas, electricity and
  communication utilities as well as available
  cultural and social infrastructure (canteens,
  cinemas, libraries etc.)
• Decisions of General Assembly on farm
  reorganization (Establishment of new dekhan
  farm/s, identification and confirmation of
  shareholders list, assignment of land plots,
  including land to be distributed and reserve
  fund)
• Agreement on area for new created dehkan farm
• Definition of border lines of newly created
  dehkan farm
• Land balance sheet of all land users, resulted
  from enterprise reorganization
• Land assignment plan to new reorganized dehkan
  enterprise, jamoat, (reserved land for village,
  individual and other land users sub farms
  development
• Land share definition of each member of the
  dekhan enterprise
• Jamoats decision on a (authorized) enterprises
  general assembly appointment
• Rayon LC decision declaration on a land
  assignment to the new formed land users
• Rayon commissions decision on a agricultural
  enterprises reorganization,
• A plan of the project borders, of the dehkan
  enterprises and other land users, transfer in the
  field.
• Project transfer minutes and land assignment in
  the field.

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Diagram of agricultural enterprises land
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Dehkan farms in Tajikistan
As of 01.12.2003
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Debts of agricultural enterprises in Tajikistan
as of 01.01.03
(in thousand Somoni)
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Basic factors, hampering dehkan farms

• Farm debts to various organizations, future
  enterprices and local budget, in most cases made
  without Government guarantees
• Slow reform process in other sectors (irrigation,
  road, etc.)
• Lack of information among population on the land
  reform process
• New forms of production and management are slowly
  introduced in agricultural sector. Lack on
  motivation to produce
• Interference by local administration, Creation of
  artificial barriers to expand independent
  production of enterprises and households farms
• Lack of efficient payment and banking mechanisms
• Absence of agricultural extensions service and
  marketing systems
• Lack of credit systems and risk insurances for
  dehkan farms
• Weak mechanisms of self-financing (credit unions,
  societies of mutual insurance and other)

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PLAN OF COORDINATION AMONG SLC, INTERNATIONAL AND
LOCAL NGOs
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PLAN OF COORDINATION AMONG SLC, INTERNATIONAL AND
LOCAL NGOs
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Presidents decrees
Land Code
Governmental decrees
Law on Land
Law on Land Reform
Decrees of central executive bodies
Law on Land Evaluation
Law on Dehkan Farms
Inter-departmental
Law on Production Cooperatives
Departmental
Law on Rent
Tax Code
Civil Code
Decrees of local authorities
Law on Environmental Protection
Criminal Code
Decrees of self-governance bodies
Administrative Code
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Monitoring of farms to be reorganized
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Monitoring group (SLC, Intl and natl NGOs)
Awareness campaign
General Assembly (Reform commission)
State farms
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SLC (Registration and issue of certificates)
Working group meeting
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Hukumat Decision (Reform commission)
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SLC Representative/s of Intl NGO
Representatives of Working groups, SLC, intl
and natl NGOs