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The programme aims to increase livestock productivity in the regions of Issyk-Kul, Naryn Oblasts, Batken, Jalal-abad to enhance climate resilience reflected in improved and equitable returns to livestock farmers, directly benefiting 154,075 households. On land and natural resource governance, the programme aims to support legal and regulatory reforms as well as sustainable pasture management. It provides support for the collection of pasture user fees and for boundary demarcation. The programme has been fruitful and thus is being expanded to more regions and more households in the LMDP II.

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The project aims to enhance institutional capacity, at the provincial and national levels, to sustainably manage natural resource-based development and promote agricultural productivity in the areas of Salavan, Champasak, Attapu, Xekong and Savannakhet benefiting 11,250 households. Land and natural resource governance related activities provide support for the community based participatory land mapping and land use planning; for the land title issuance and information on rights and responsibilities related to land. It supports the Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Offices and the District Agriculture and Forestry Offices to better inform the villagers about their rights and land tenure security.

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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 Land Access and Management Activity has two sub-activities: Community-based Rangeland and Livestock Management (CBRLM), focusing on promoting sustainable land management and grazing activities; and Communal Land Support (CLS), aimed at improving tenure security and land governance. The primary objectives of CLS are: (1) to empower residents and landholders at the village/local level to actively and effectively participate in the use and management of their land resources in Namibia's Northern Communal Areas; and (2) to improve the administration and management of communal lands.

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To build on previous DFID-supported programming on promoting land tenure security for Mozambicans, so that investors, State and communities can share the benefits of Mozambique’s natural resources. The programme has a dual focus on: i) improving economic resilience of rural based livelihoods and ii) increasing public demand for better land administration at local level.

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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.