Research Training at
the National University of Laos (NUOL)
The first phase of the NUOL (National University of Laos) research-training
project commenced with introductory research formulation sessions at the
beginning of 2000. The project took 12 staff in four departments at NUOL
through the research process, from formulating research questions, through
designing a proposal, carrying out fieldwork to analysis and writing.
Each of three teams designed a proposal in several stages and carried
out fieldwork on aspects of local resource management and resource tenure,
punctuated by training sessions run in Vientiane by AMRC director Phil
Hirsch and colleagues at York University in Canada, Chiengmai University
in Thailand and the East-West Centre in Hawaii. Research themes included
the impacts of irrigation development on resource tenure and access; the
implications of forest land allocation on food security; and links between
forest land allocation and changing agricultural patterns. This phase
concluded with an open policy workshop on the Land and Forest Allocation
Program, held at NUOL in December 2002. The second phase of the project
involves a research training component, research management capacity building
and the establishment of an outreach centre on community-based natural
resource management at NUOL.
Duration: 1999 - 2002
Partners: York University, Canada; NUOL; Chiang Mai University; East-West
Centre, Hawaii
Funding bodies: International Development Research Centre
Detailed Information: Laos
Resource Tenure Studies Project website 
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