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The “Capacity development programme on the VGGT applied for and with indigenous peoples” in Central America was conducted with the Centro para la Autonomia y Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indigenas (CADPI). It brought together Indigenous Peoples Representatives and Experts from different countries in the Central America Region (Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama), including representatives of the national/regional/local governments. The VGGT were translated into Miskitu (indigenous language from Nicaragua), and specifically designed training material was prepared, which is currently being collated with funding support from the MUL project. Good practices and major challenges related to governance of tenure in each country involved were identified and shared; the participants carried out studies comparing the respective national legal and policy framework on Indigenous Peoples'tenure rights and the international one, using the VGGT as a reference. These studies also addressed specific aspects of the VGGT in their own indigenous communities. A final programme report was prepared which included: an analysis of workshop series results and key messages; the participants' studies; and the participants' evaluation of the training programme.

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The grants contribute to the development and integration of pro-poor tools and approaches for securing land and natural resource rights into development programmes in 15 selected countries within East and Southern Africa (ESA). The main objective of the grants has been to identify common issues and to enhance lesson sharing and knowledge management on land‐related tools and approaches amongst the various projects, country stakeholders and partners. The principal target group is poor women and men involved in 22 IFAD supported projects and programmes in ESA. They will benefit from tenure security measures that better enable them to invest in land and agriculture and to access credit. It also provides support for mapping, land and water rights, group rights, and inclusive business.

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The project aims to improve the livelihoods and incomes of 18,000 extremely poor forest households in Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca located in the southern states of Mexico. Special attention is given to strengthen the capacity of the communities to better manage their natural resources, enhance conservation practices such as promoting increase of vegetation cover and put in place mechanisms to cope with impact of climate change. Land and natural resource governance related interventions included territorial planning and the generation of legal documentation giving more land tenure security to the agrarian public through workshops, courses and technical assistance.

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The project includes poor smallholders who cultivate less than two ha of land and rely on subsistence farming, as well as households headed by women, young people, war-wounded and disabled people among 15,000 households in the Lofa county. It aims to increase the quantity sold and the price received by poor farmers for cocoa and coffee by rehabilitating plantations, improving access to markets and by strengthening the Ministry of Agriculture and/or private extension services as well as Farmers-based Organisations. The rehabilitation of 315 km of farm-to-market roads and 15,000 ha of cocoa/coffee plantations, using a value chain model, aim at generating employment opportunities, mainly benefitting youth and women. The project aims at improving land tenure security, as the two partners for tree crop rehabilitation (Bio United and cooperatives) will be in charge of formalizing the farmers’ ownership over their plots. A memorandum of understanding with the project coordination unit (PCU) will be approved and signed by the farmer, the traditional authorities, and the district agricultural officers (DAOs) and county agricultural coordinator (CAC).

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The 5-year B+WISER Program in the Philippines aims to (1) conserve biodiversity in forest areas, (2) reduce forest degradation in seven priority sites, (3) build capacity to conserve biodiversity, manage forests and support low emissions development, and (4) contribute to disaster risk reduction at sub-national levels. Activities related to land tenure and property rights focus on enhancing inclusion of indigenous peoples, upland farmers, and women in natural resources management. Illustrative activities include development of studies on costs and benefits of different land uses, co-management options for overlapping management regimes (e.g. protected areas within ancestral domains), payments for ecosystems services; forest land use planning and/or implementation; and support for land tenure and dispute resolution initiatives.

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The Forest&Farm Facility is a mechanism for funding and capacity building to stimulate and strengthen farmers organizations and active multi-stakeholder participation in forest and farm-related policy dialogues. A development of the former NFP-Facility and Growing Forest Partnerships, it's more oriented towards cross-sectoral cooperation, local rights holders, gender equity and income creation.

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The completed Kenya Justice Project piloted an approach for improving women’s access to customary justice, particularly related to women’s land rights, by enhancing the customary justice system in one target area. The work also resulted in a clearer understanding of the relationships between customary and statutory institutions and laws, and the development of a model to promote the integration of informal and formal justice systems. This follow-on project seeks to share the Kenya Justice Project approach as well as results and lessons learned from the Project evaluation to explore opportunities and support for broader sustainable application throughout Kenya, particularly focused on formalizing and institutionalizing linkages and processes between the formal and informal justice sectors, consistent with Article 159 of Kenya’s Constitution.

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Framework support to RRI, a global coalition of international, regional and community organizations dedicated to raising global awareness on forest policy and tenure reforms to achieve goals of poverty alleviation, biodiversity and forest-based economic growth. The overall objective of the project is to reduce poverty, enhance well-being and strengthen democratic governance and development in forest areas of developing countries.

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This project aims to increase investment in land and rural productivity through improved land tenure security and land management. Expected results include greater security of land rights and improved access to more efficient land institutions, which together contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction in rural areas. Specific activities include: - Legal and Procedural Change and Communication, to support the Government of Burkina Faso’s efforts to develop and implement improved rural land legislation and other legal and procedural frameworks; - Institutional Development and Capacity Building, to improve institutional capacity to deliver land services in rural area; - Site-Specific Land Tenure Interventions, including participatory land use management planning and clarifying and securing land rights, to ensure that the institutional development and legal and procedural change activities yield their intended benefits across targeted municipalities and agricultural development zones.

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Donor's contribution: European Union: US$ 6.00 million World Food Programme: US$ 4.66 million Other funding: US$ 2.50 million The project was designed in a post-crisis context, and it aims to contribute to the fight against poverty among the 30,000 most vulnerable households, in the six provinces north and east of the capital Bujumbura: Cibitoke, Kayanza, Karusi, Bubanza, Muramvya, Gitega and to develop organized and sustainable family farming to allow small-scale rural producers to increase their incomes. Measures will be taken to combat erosion and integrate crops and livestock, the use of pesticides and agricultural intensification. Land and natural resource governance related activities aim to strengthen the land tenure security owned or held by household; to strengthen the security of land tenure of individuals and groups who have access to State-owned marsh lands. The project aims to spread the relevant provisions of the Land Code, the Environmental Code and the law on public water resources. Women will have priority access to rehabilitated wetlands and those developed by the project.

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The project aims to reduce significantly the current levels of poverty and extreme poverty of 6,600 households in 66 municipalities of the Central and Paracentral region through participative, community-driven, micro-watershed-centred, social and economic processes, following a deliberate action strategy of gender and intercultural equity, environmental sustainability and organisational and institutional strengthening. Land and natural resource governance interventions aim to support the achievement of cooperation agreements between land owners and land tenants, and territorial consolidation of indigenous communities.

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The objective of the financial cooperation measure is: smallholders who are organized in user groups are able to manage erosion protection facilities and large-scale afforestation to generate household energy based on formalized land rights. Key achievements include helping program communities to develop land use plans (LNPs), build functioning land use certification, and support user groups in implementing large-scale forest and erosion control measures.