A/HRC/33/39 and by company, and briefings on relevant thematic issues, such as the rights of indigenous peoples.4 59. From October 2015 to February 2016, OHCHR carried out preliminary research on six social land concessions. According to a subdecree on social land concessions issued in 2003, a social land concession is “a legal mechanism to transfer private state land for social purposes to the poor who lack land for residential and/or family farming purposes”. Few official sources of information, including on the process and outcomes of the mechanism, are actually available. To assist the Government in improving its implementation of the concessions, addressing shortcomings, and disseminating and replicating positive experiences, research focused on the processes and outcomes in land distribution through social land concessions in rural areas in five provinces. It entailed interviews with more than 640 households, local authorities and other stakeholders. The research data are being analysed for discussion with the Government; the final results are expected to be published by the end of 2016. 60. OHCHR continued to expand its focus on business and human rights, working directly with national and subnational authorities, civil society organizations, community representatives and business actors to increase their understanding of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and their application in Cambodia. In partnership with nongovernmental organizations, selected business people, and professional institutions, such as the Lawyers Training Centre of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia, OHCHR organized and delivered a number of seminars, training sessions and consultations that were attended by more than 400 representatives of targeted professional groups (such as lawyers and members of the media), government agencies, private businesses and civil society organizations (including youth groups). In addition, OHCHR aired six live interactive radio talk shows on related themes, with a variety of guest speakers, including from grass-roots associations, national and international non-governmental organizations, government, United Nations agencies, businesses, and individual experts. 61. In Mondulkiri province, in October 2015, OHCHR initiated a pilot project to support negotiations between indigenous communities affected by an economic land concession and the company to which it had been granted. A tripartite committee comprising representatives of the local authorities, the company and the indigenous villagers was set up at the initiative of local stakeholders. OHCHR was invited to support the process. With the negotiation skills of the indigenous representatives strengthened by OHCHR-organized training, as at June 2016, compensation agreements were being finalized concerning one sacred site, and clear and time-bound commitments had been made by the company to review all pending land claims. Two multi-stakeholder meetings for indigenous representatives, local authorities, land concession representatives, non-governmental organizations, the United Nations and development agencies were organized to review the progress made. 62. OHCHR continued to work with the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Construction and Planning, local authorities and civil society organizations to support efforts by indigenous peoples to apply for collective land titles, and to provide legal aid to communities that had been subjected to land rights violations. In Cambodia, securing a collective land title is a complex, three-step process: first, communities must be identified by the Ministry of Rural Development as “indigenous communities”; second, communities must be legally registered with the Ministry of the Interior as a “legal entity”; third, they must apply to have their land registered communally with the Ministry of Land Management. As at June 2016, 162 indigenous communities were in the process of 4 12 See Open Development Cambodia at https://cambodia.opendevelopmentmekong.net.