Land reform programme

The “Rights & Prosperity” organization deals with land reform sphere since 1998. The “Rights & Prosperity” considers land reform promotion in Tajikistan in three aspects:

• Law observance by land legal relationship participants.
• Improvement of the legislation and effective observance of the existing legislation.
• Participation of governmental and public institutions in land reform implementation.
• Gender aspect of land reform

At the initial stage of land reform implementation, during the process of reorganization of collective and state farms, the “Rights & Prosperity” has conducted a dekhkan farms establishment, development and protection support programme, which was supported by international organizations and local government. Legal assistance was provided to those who wanted to establish a dekhkan farm.
The next step is to implement the “Improvement of legal awareness and literacy of dekhkan farmers” programme.
The following strategies were selected for the aforementioned step: education, legal awareness, influence on government officials, legal consulting, including defense in courts.
Main spheres which impede land reform promotion were uncovered in the course of the programme:

• Law observance by the participants of land legal relationship
• Contract-based relationships
• Distribution of land
• Taxation
• Gender issue
• Internal situation in dekhkan farms
• Governmental control over activity of dekhkan farms

2. Problems of legislation

• Crediting of dekhan farms
• Social maintenance of members of dekhkan farms
• Settlement of economic and other disputes dekhkan farms face with

3. Governmental and public institutions in land reform implementation

• Associations of dekhkan farms
• Social partnership
• Mass Media
• Public monitoring
• Public protection of rights