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The FAO country office in Brazil has promoted the use and dissemination of the Voluntary Guidelines at the national level. Among one of the first activities will be to translate the Voluntary Guidelines into Portuguese. This will prove extremely useful for work in other Portuguese-speaking countries and regions. The Voluntary Guidelines are being used as a reference document to enrich discussion and feed into policy and framework development in government conferences and committees (including II Conferência Nacional de Solidariedade e Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável – CONDRAF). Discussions with all stakeholders are also being facilitated on implementation strategies for the Voluntary Guidelines in Brazil.

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The programme aims at building the support system to facilitate the implementation of the VGGT and that of the AU Land Policy G&F on the African continent respectively. Synergies to facilitate the implementation of both frameworks are actively promoted in liaison with a dedicated EU-Programme

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Capacity creation with actors for sound pasture management; effective coordination among actors for good pasture governance; community organisation to reduce open-access problems in pasture management; skill development of herders

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(The funding amount only reflects the support from Finland= all of Finland's funding, as, if widely understood, it could be included in the support of land tenure) The major focus – and added value - of the Lao PDR Forest Investment Plan (Lao FIP) is to promote participatory sustainable forest management (PSFM) of all types of forests, with a major emphasis on promoting the capacities of villagers and other grassroots managers. SUFORD-SU is the fourth in a series of projects promoting participatory sustainable forest management. The current project covers 13 provinces, 41 of the country’s 51 PFAs, comprising 2.3 million ha and more than 1000 villages. The current project is also piloting an approach to forest landscape management in four provinces, and piloting village forestry in at least 30 villages in this area. It is supporting work on payment for environmental services (PES) and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Forest and wildlife law enforcement activities continued to be supported, as well as work on key relevant policy, legislative, and regulatory issues. The project also disseminates information on project issues, and aims to raise awareness regarding climate change and REDD+. SUFORD-SU is not only developing its own monitoring and evaluation systems for the project, but working to develop and strengthen government monitoring, reporting, evaluation, and analysis capabilities. A PFA Monitoring System (PFAMS) will be built, to complement other ongoing work such as the National Forest Information System (NFIS) under development.

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The aim of the national component is to ensure that successful small-scale actions (i) contribute to the improvement of biodiversity protection in selected ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHP) and their peripheral areas, and (ii) to improve the living conditions of the local population. In addition, (iii) coordination mechanisms and management capacities for Vietnamese AHPs should be strengthened at national level. The aim of the regional component is to (iv) strengthen the ACB as a regional institution for the sustainable protection of biodiversity in ASEAN member states.

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The project aims to (i) strengthen capacities of key stakeholders in establishing recognition of claims to land access and to (ii) establish legitimate and sustainable mechanisms of multi-stakeholder consultation for decision-making concerning the revision of legal frameworks, policy strategies and administrative regulations which influence the rights of access to and use of land and natural resources for rural actors in Cameroon

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The aim of the programme is to contribute to an increase in the income of 110,000 smallholder households in 13 regions through professional and vocational training, leading to higher productivity and improved marketing of agricultural products. The programme specifically aims to support vulnerable groups, with special attention to uneducated youth and young women who are heads of household. Land and natural resource governance related activities include 6 land registration committees (CRIF) constituted by 10 land offices, they include the support for the issuing of land certificates and plan to install at least 2000 ha of new irrigated areas and rehabilitate 4200 ha of existing or traditional boundaries in order to secure the control of water and/or expand the irrigated area.

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Empower coastal communities (women and marginalised people in particular)to articulate and voice their interests in tenure rights processes, to promote transparancy in the management of the fishery sector and to provide alternative livelihood options to fishers and processors affected by capacity reduction efforts.

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The project purpose is to improve tenure security and registration of communal land rights in communal areas as well as developing integrated regional land use plans and infrastructure investments in the small scale communal farming sector. Measures are for an example, zoning of grassland and construction of waterholes.

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The programme's goal is to contribute to rural poverty reduction and stimulate economic growth of 50,000 households in the regions of Matam, Tambacounda, Kedougou and Kolda, focusing on enhancing supply of agricultural production; on value addition and marketing. On land and natural resource governance, the programme intends to provide support for collective rangeland management and the capacity building of breeder organizations.

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The complementary program supports and builds the young cross-border biosphere reserve in the Prespa Ohrid region and promotes the Prespa National Park. It contributes to the protection of biodiversity and to the fight against poverty in the Albanian Prespa region.

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The program strengthens local communities to secure access to natural resources to improve food security and increase their in-come. It focuses on Kratié and Stung Treng provinces, which are rich in natural resources but where people suffer from high poverty rates. Target communities in Kratie and Stung Treng provinces shall have secure access to their natural resources and biodiversity through secured community forest (CF) and community fishery (CFi) agreements and sustainable CF and CFi practices.