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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

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The Rights and Resources Initiative is catalyzing a new International Land and Forest Tenure Facility in response to growing global demand for land and forest tenure reform. Sida has committed USD 15.0 million over a 4-year period to support the final assessments and consultations needed to finalize design of the Facility, establishment and launch of Facility structures and governance, and support implementation of community tenure reform projects in a first set of countries.

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Technical assistancy at the MEPATE for the implementation of the Programme National Foncier (PNF) The technical expert supports the Programme National Foncier. He works in close collaboration with the Cellule de Coordination de la réforme foncière.

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Forest protection as climate protection: Among other measures for forest protection policies and activities in the area of land law regulation as well as forest monitoring and deforestation control are supported to reduce deforestation.

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The programme is building on the positive experience of LMDP I and expanding the activities to increase livestock productivity in the regions of Issyk-Kul, Naryn Oblasts, Batken, Jalal-abad and Osh region of Osh to enhance climate resilience reflected in improved and equitable returns to livestock farmers, directly benefiting 304,000 households. On land and natural resource governance, the programme provides support for legal and regulatory reforms as well as sustainable pasture management. It aims to collect pasture user fees and support boundary demarcation. One of the efforts was the support of the development of the new Pasture Law which provides the legal basis for community-based pasture management. The project supports the preparation of Community Pasture Management Plans (CPMPs) by Pasture Committees (PCs) which set out a five-year plan of pasture management, improvement and investment. The aim is to help achieve maximum pasture utilization rates based on improved methods of pasture health assessment and monitoring.

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A national workshop on harmonizing legal instruments of tenure took place in Bangui in July 2015, where 75 participants discussed the value and use of the Voluntary Guidelines in Central African Republic and identified legal actions to improve governance of tenure. The participants included representatives from academia, civil society, indigenous peoples and the private sector. A comprehensive legal review served as a base to establish principles for future legal reforms and from which to propose a framework law on tenure rights. Wide consultation with local communities and civil society was recommended as a next step towards the adoption of a framework law by government institutions. The workshop closing was chaired by the Prime Minister accompanied by seven ministers. The workshop was organized by the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing with the technical and financial support of FAO.

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The project supports policy-makers and civil society organizations in the SADC Region evidence-based information for policy-decision-making in order to promote good land governance and to protect people from dispossession. In the framework of the project, land deals are analyzed and their impacts on livelihoods assessed. This is combined with capacity development and empowerment to inform the different stakeholders and to make evidence-based decisions.

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Sweden identified itself as a resource partner to support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT). In 2014, Sweden financed a technical workshop in Malawi, which took place during 14-16 July, 2014 in collaboration with the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi. The workshop brought together a wide range of participants from land, agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors from governments, district administration officials, civil society organizations and the private sector. A multi-stakeholder national platform was created to support and track VGGT implementation in Malawi.

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The FC project plans to strengthen ten terrestrial and two marine reserves as well as an eco-corridor (Corredor Ecológico Sierra Madre Oriental - CESMO) by investing in infrastructure, equipment and institutional capacities.

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The project objective is to expand farm privatization to enable more rural people to become independent farmers and take management decisions in response to market forces, by providing them secure land use rights certificates distributed in a transparent and fair manner, and providing essential complementary support services. Project components include: (i)Farm Privatization and Land Registration (i.e. privatize 300 Collective and State Farms (CSFs) in a transparent and fair manner, issue at least 75,000 secure land use certificates, and establish a uniform, parcel-based system of registration of land use rights by further supporting the central office of the State Land Committee in Dushanbe, upgrading four land offices to Regional Land Registration Offices (RLROs), establishing three new RLROs, and training staff to provide the required services). The project will finance equipment for surveying, mapping, digitization software and hardware, and training.activities include farm restructuring, reform of cadastre, surveying, titling and registration; (ii)Farm Information and Irrigation Support, to provide rural citizens with detailed information on the privatization process, including the land law, rules and regulations governing the allocations, and individual’s rights to farmland. It will train project area rural people and also support nation-wide campaigns through mass media programs, and booklet preparation and distribution, with a systematic approach to reach youth and women; and (iii)Project Management and Policy Support, by supporting the capacity development within the President’s Economic Advisor’ Office to enable Tajikistan to address national policy issues associated with scaling up the Farm Privatization Support Project approach. The policy support will include the establishment of a small policy unit, as well as technical assistance and training, to address land administration, cotton, water management, and other policy issues related to farm privatization. The policy support will also address the special issues associated with the de facto land redistribution during the civil war.

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The objectives are the sustainable management of forests and fauna, the reduction of resource degradation and the decline of carbon emissions in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the ecological, economic and social functions of Cameroon's forest ecosystems.