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The aim of the project was to improve the institutional and infrastructure environment for farmers and herders, with a strong emphasis on the livestock sector. Specifically, the project intended to increase the productivity of 61,000 farmers' households nationwide, particularly targeting livestock farmers, and reduce animal diseases that have a public health impact (e.g. brucellosis). With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project facilitated the development and adoption of the Pasture Law in 2009 by raising the awareness of decision makers and advising on legislative reforms. It further supported activities related to sustainable pasture management.

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The programme aims to ensure food security and income for 17,000 rural poor households in 225 villages among nine districts in the Sayabouly and Oudomxay. Specifically by strengthening farmer's organisations to be able to promote the community-based natural resource management and through the adoption of the proposed technologies and improved access to water. With regard to land and natural resource governance, the programme intended to provide support for increasing ethic villagers' entitlements, for the management of communal lands and to help in implementing secure tenure rights for the communities to protect them against land grabbing.

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In 2005, following a participatory and consultative process, the Malagasy Government adopted a Letter of Land Policy setting the strategic directions of the Malagasy Land Policy, which revolves around four strategic axes: the restructuring, modernization and computerization of land services; improving the implementation of decentralized land management; updating the national and land regulations;the implementation of a national training plan for careers in land, new skills and communication.

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The objective of the Land Tenure Services Project is to establish more efficient and secure access to land by improving the policy framework, upgrading land information systems and services, helping beneficiaries meet immediate needs for registered land rights, and supporting better access to land for investment. This project comprises three mutually reinforcing activity areas: •Policy Monitoring Pillar: Improve the policy environment by addressing implementation problems with the existing land law, conducting regulatory reviews to improve upon it, and supporting training for predictable, speedy resolution of disputes; •Capacity Building Pillar: Build the institutional capacity to implement policies and to provide quality public land-related services by investing in human and information resources; and •Site-specific Pillar: Facilitate access to land by helping individuals and businesses with clear information on land rights and access and with registering their grants-of-land use.

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The MCC Threshold Program for land rights and access seeks to: 1) increase clarity and public understanding of property rights issues in order to inform the land policy and law reform process; 2) rebuild management and public and private surveying capacity to improve future land administration; and 3) increase efficiency in deed registration, and restore, and improve deed records and procedures.

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The programme aims to build the capacity of 75,000 poor households and their institutions, in the region of South-western Orissa, so that vulnerable groups, particularly women, can plan and manage their own development and negotiate improved entitlements. With regard to land and natural resource governance the key objectives of the programme include the promotion of a more efficient, equitable, self-managed and sustainable exploitation of natural resources at people's disposal and the development of non-farm enterprises for landless people. The programme supports the allocation of 0.10 acre of revenue land and titles for homestead to households and the recording of rights for all ST households up to 4 ha per household of forest land occupied by them under the Forest Rights Act.

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The programme fosters economic development and poverty reduction through improved land use, management and governance. The expected outcome is to facilitate the implementation of the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa via enhanced capacity of the AU-ECA-AfDB LPI, RECs, African governments, civil society and other stakeholders in land policy development as well as improved land information systems, increased networking, lesson learning and knowledge sharing among practitioners in land policy and increased monitoring of progress in land policy development and implementation.

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The Land Tenure Security Activity is part of the Irrigation and Water Resource Management Project. It provide support to identify and secure land rights, including existing rights and those of farmers benefiting from the project, and to mitigate conflicts that might arise from ambiguities regarding property rights, increasing land values, and increased demand for land. The project will assist in the development of community-based land allocation procedures to assure community participation and equitable allocation of land in the project area. The capacity of local institutions responsible for allocating and managing land rights will also be strengthened.

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FAO with funding of a sister project conducted two multi-stakeholder workshops in Mongolia, in October 2014 and November 2015. The workshops re-launched dialogue on tenure in the country, raised awareness on the VGGT and served to develop an action plan and assess progress made in the implementation of the VGGT. As a result, a National Multi-stakeholder Platform (advisory role) and a Working Group (coordination and conduct of activities) were established in support of national VGGT implementation. The groups serve as a foundation for collectively addressing a broad range of activities to implement the VGGT and are coordinated by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the People Centered Conservation in Mongolia (PCC), a local NGO. The VGGT Working Group was formalized through an Order of the State Secretary of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which collectively reviewed the translation of the VGGT and officially presented it during the second workshop in November 2015. Resulting from the momentum created through these activities, and the priority areas for action identified during the first workshop, the Government of Mongolia requested FAO technical support in work related to the drafting of a pasture land law and a forest tenure assessment. Project funding offered the opportunity to respond to both requests.

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The compact’s $332.5 million Green Prosperity Project is designed to increase productivity and reduce reliance on fossil fuels by expanding renewable energy, and to increase productivity and reduce land-based greenhouse gas emissions by improving land use practices and management of natural resources. The Green Prosperity Project includes a $43.1 million Participatory Land Use Planning (PLUP) activity to support participatory land use planning - administrative boundary setting, updating/integration of land use inventories and enhancing of spatial plans at the district and provincial level to support investment in renewable energy and sustainable management of natural resources. In general, the PLUP Activty is designed to: (i) put in place the foundational spatial (land use) planning elements needed to enable and sustain the specific investments in renewal energy and natural resource management funded by the GP Investment Facility; (ii) improve land use certainty for communities within the districts selected for GP investments; and (iii) support compliance with environmental and social performance standards and safeguards. Specifically, the PLUP is expected to: (i) enhance the technical capacity of provincial and district governments in spatial (land use) analysis, planning and enforcement; (ii) identify and, when possible, reduce land use and land tenure disputes as a means to improve the investment climate for renewal energy and natural resource management projects; and (iii) empower communities by providing spatial (locational) certainty through participatory geo-location and demarcation of village boundaries and the mapping of critical natural and cultural resource areas within these villages. Compact funding will finance the completion of the following technical activities. 1) Participatory village boundary setting and community mapping (VBS/CM), including: (i) the development of district level guidelines for participatory setting of village boundaries using established Government processes combined with international best practices, modern survey and mapping technology and including participation of the community, in particular women and disadvantaged groups; (ii) the participatory determination, geographic delineation and physical demarcation of village boundaries in targeted sub-districts (kecamatan) of selected districts; (iii) identification and resolution, as possible, of land use and tenure disputes; and (iv) the collection of geo-spatial data and mapping of critical natural and cultural resource areas within the mapped villages. 2) Creation of sub-district (kecamatan) level land use inventories and integration of land and other natural resource information, including: (i) compilation of and georeferencing of existing and pending licenses and permits for land and natural resource use, other use rights, community claims, and select biophysical data and creation of sub-district level land use inventories; (ii) technical assistance to relevant provincial and district government agencies to support integration, management and exchange of geo-spatial data and to make land information widely available to the public . 3) Capacity building for spatial planning and resource management at the provincial and district government level enhancement of district spatial plans, including: (i) investments in computer and mapping equipment, GIS software, training and technical assistance for provincial and district Bappeda offices and the office of the Bupati, to improve spatial analysis and the use, updating and enforcement of spatial plans; and improve effectiveness and transparency in licensing, permitting and decisions on land use.

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The project goal is to reduce rural poverty and increase food security and incomes for about 20,000 households in Dindir, Abu Hujar, and Dali and Mazmoum. The objective is to successfully disseminate appropriate technology in soil and water conservation, range development, livestock nutrition and post-harvest technology to 16,000 small scale producers. Land and natural resource governance activities support awareness campaigns for the rationale use of natural resources, the development of a land use and investment map which will help the drafting of a a bill for Land Use and Natural Resource Management. The establishment of a lobby group will help smallholder farmers to influence decisions in formal and informal institutions, which are usually dominated by large farmers.

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The Land Management for Investment Project is expected to improve Cape Verde’s investment climate by refining the legal, institutional and procedural environment to create conditions for increased reliability of land information, greater efficiency in land administration transactions, and strengthened protection of land rights; developing and implementing a new land information management system; and clarifying parcel rights and boundaries on targeted islands with high investment potential. The project supports the Government of Cape Verde in creating a single reliable and easily accessible source of land rights and land boundaries information, which is expected to strengthen Cape Verde’s investment climate for large and small investors and reduce land registration time and costs. The project is comprised of two activities: •Legal and Institutional Foundations Activity •Rights and Boundaries Activity