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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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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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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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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.

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The programme aims to support young people in creating and managing successful agro-pastoral businesses and to promote a policy, organizational and institutional framework conducive to the creation and development of agro-pastoral businesses among young people. The programme will directly benefit 10,000 households in four regions: Centre, South, Littoral and Northwest, accounting for about 40% of the youth population living in rural areas in Cameroon. It is expected that about 4,700 agro-pastoral businesses will be created and about 350 existing businesses will be further developed. On land and natural resource governance, the programme plans to work at the local and national level to provide youth, especially young rural women, with secure access to land, and also support all beneficiaries in obtaining property titles. It will work to this end with the Ministry in charge of land affairs and with local authorities. These actions will be accompanied by consultations between landowners and local administrative institutions and by sensitization campaigns and advocacy for a more favourable framework for access to land by young people. Ideally these will result in negotiations between landowners and land users, and in the signing of a property charter recognized and respected by all stakeholders.

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The project aims to reduce extreme poverty and malnutrition for 34,000 poor rural households in Northern Laos. The objective is to increase the quality of health and life by improving agricultural production and overall household nutrition and food security. The project will address food and nutrition security needs and will include profitable investment in nutrient-sensitive, climate adapted agricultural development. Land and natural resource governance related activities aim at guaranteeing equitable access to and sustainable management of forest land.

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The project aims to support improvements to land use and forestry governance in Indonesia, through a combination of support to national and local governments, and civil society, informed by political economy analysis. It will offer capacity building and technical assistance to national and local governments, and support strategic coalitions of reformers at the local level, from civil society, government and the private sector, in demanding good governance. A research component will contribute political economy analysis of the local contexts in order to inform the approach. The programme will be carried out in four provinces in Indonesia which have abundant forest resources and complex land use and forestry problems, with the aim of improving the rule of law on land use and forestry and the recognition of community land rights.

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PASF supports the rural sector program PNSR through the Ministry of Environment. Focus is on forestry, climate change adaptation, institutional reform, institutional capacity building, capacity building of non-governmental actors as well as the set-up of the national fund "Fonds d'Intervention pour l'Environnement (FIE)".

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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