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The project’s long term goal is to facilitate water management and reduce flood risks and impacts with increased EC INSPIRE directive compliance of data and data services needed. It will be reached with establishment of vertical component of geodetic reference frame and combined vertical/horizontal geodetic network, improvement of quality of geodetic reference frame and it’s compliance with INSPIRE requirements on coordinate reference system (CRS), with INSPIRE compliance and extension of territorial coverage of topographic data, especially on hydrography and with establishment of INSPIRE network spatial data services to provide necessary data to the processes of flood risk assessment and spatial planning.

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One of the negative impacts of uncontrolled deforestation within the Western Caucasus World Natural Heritage Site is that adjacent villages are being ever more frequently affected by flooding and landslides. The project combines protection and sustainable use of the remaining Nordmann fir forests through the designation of a buffer zone with sustainable forest management and exploitation of renewable energy sources. In addition to avoiding climate-changing emissions, this will guarantee a long-term income source for the population and reduce its exposure to impacts from climate change.

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The grant is intended to make small scale food producers familiar with the Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests (VGGTs), and build up their capacity to create synergies and develop common strategies with regional human rights organisations and institutions in order to support the implementation of VGGT, but also to monitor the implementation at national level. The aim is to organize two regional capacity development workshops in Nicaragua and six national workshops in Mozambique (national partner: UNAC), two workshops in Argentina (national partner: MNCI) and two workshops in Nepal (national partner: ANPFA) for rural communities and members of organizations of small-scale food producers on the content of the VGGTs and on strategies on how to use them.

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The purpose of the RFGI is to have representative local forest governance and responsible natural resource management improved in at least 10 country-based landscapes in Africa, supported with handbooks for the design and improvement of accountable and responsive local forest-governance processes. The expected results from phase I are mainly new knowledge, a set of forest governance handbooks, and increased analytical capacity in forest (environmental) governance in the region

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The programme, built upon the achievements of the first phase, aims to contribute to improved living conditions and rural poverty reduction, for 13,200 households in the Tataouine region, by: Improving the management and productivity of collective and private rangeland, and of rainfed and irrigated farming systems; by diversifying income sources and expanding employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups, including young people and women; and by empowering communities to take charge of their own development. On land and natural resource governance the programme is supporting the formation and networking of farmer's organization, M&E of measures to improve the management and productivity of collective and private rangeland. It further supports the communication and dissemination of knowledge regarding rangeland management activities.

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The goal of the programme is to improve the livelihoods and food and nutrition security for 32,090 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, including 14,000 tribal households and 16,356 poor households in the regions of Eastern Ghats and Northern Plateau, through capacity building and by improving agricultural practices and community infrastructure. Support for land and natural resource governance will include measures for securing land to programme beneficiaries and providing them with land and forest titles that will be issued in the names of both husband and wife engaging the services of a specialist NGO (LANDESA). The programme will facilitate granting of community rights under the Forest Rights Act.

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The programme aims to support public and private institutions, civil society and rural poor organizations to establish a good partnership in the development of two key agricultural sectors (rice and milk) and six secondary branches; it intends to build the human, physical and technical capacity of poor smallholder farmers to enable them to protect their productive assets, increase their production of rice and milk and raise their incomes. Approximately 77,500 households in the provinces of Cibitoke, Kayanza, Karusi, Bubanza, Muramvya, Gitega will benefit from the programme. With regard to land and natural resource governance, the programme aims to establish the legal status and land rights in each plot (hills and marshes) and to support the registration of newly entered in the community by strengthening the capacity of communal development centres (CDCs) and administrative authorities, agents of communal land services, local elected officials, and "bashingantahe" (council of elders). Land activities include measures that allow women to access their own plot of land. Landless women can also rent a plot of rehabilitated land.

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The project aims to ensure decision makers (in public and private sector) implement policies to support socially equitable oil palm expansion onto low- carbon degraded land and reduce conversion of forested areas. The programme will address critical governance questions around how to grant access to suitable land, how to revoke permits, how to change land status and how to involve local people in decisions where their rights are affected. On-the-ground community mapping will work with local people to evaluate what livelihood options exists in the area, and thus what is the best way to deliver a poverty-reducing forest management approach.

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Contribute to better land management and governance of state lands. It was agreed with the stakeholders to focus this intervention on the surveying of state lands based on the orthophotomaps produced under the PPCDR. This methodology, which uses the Geographic Information System (GIS), has been used in Rwanda to carry out systematic land certification at the national level. It will soon be adapted to Burundi as part of a pilot project funded by the PPCDR in two municipalities in the province of Cankuzo, aimed at using orthophotos in the context of plot reconnaissance. The desired goal of this project is to open the door to a subsequent systematic recognition of the national territory, which is why the project will emphasize the appropriation of the project by the technical ministries concerned and, above all, the services of the National Cadastre, who will be equipped and whose skills will be strengthened. In addition, the complex nature of land disputes in Burundi requires that the registration of state lands be accompanied by measures aiming at the same time to resolve any land disputes. This aspect will be taken into account in a more important way within the framework of the action. The project aims at contributing to a better management of public lands, mitigating the risk of conflict, enhancing the access to land for vulnerable parts of the population and improving production and economic development in Burundi. As agreed with various stakeholders, the project will focus its activities on creating a state-owned land cadastre system based on the orthophotoplan products in the PPCDR. With the help of Geographic Information System (GIS) methodology, systematic registration of state-owned lands will be achieved. The systematic recording of public lands is especially necessary with regards to the complex nature of land conflicts in Burundi and will be accompanied by parallel measures of conflict resolution for potential conflicts over land.

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Support through the Mali Forest Department DNEF to decentralization in the forestry sector, small-scale enterprise development, climate change adaptation and institutional reform. Support during 2014-2016 is currently (March 2014) under negotiation.

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this program relies on several components: Component 1: Increase transparency and global information on land transactions (land observatory in Senegal and African land portal hosted by LPI and Land matrix) Component 2: Articulate national land policies and the application of the VGGT (Niger and Senegal)

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The overall objective of the project is to guarantee land tenure security and access to land for all citizens, in particular for smallholder producers. The specific objective of the project is to accelerate the implementation of land laws and ensure their applicability for all layers of society. The project aims particularly to mitigate conflicts by clarifying and issuing land rights to beneficiaries.. The project is structured around three components: - Component 1 is to strengthen the capacities of the Central Administration, the Regional Directorates of Agriculture and the Districts and Sub-districts, - Component 2 concerns the devolution of responsibilities to local administrations including (awareness of the villages, organization of land delimitation, etc.) by an inter-professional agricultural organization well established in the field, - Component 3 seeks to strengthen inter-ministerial monitoring capacity, coordination and synergy, in particular between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of interior Affaires.