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Displaying 1571 - 1580 of 6947International conference on women and access to information
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Access to information, entrenched in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is critical to exercising basic civil, political, social, and economic rights. It is also instrumental to improving governance, transparency, and accountability. A genuine right of access to information is particularly important for women, as it allows women to make effective decisions regarding education, land ownership, crop production, and the promotion and protection of other rights. It enables women to participate in public life, have a meaningful voice, and hold governments and service providers accountable. Access to information is an important tool that can bridge gender gaps, encourage gender-responsive changes to law and policy, facilitate women’s access to justice, and support improved service delivery. Yet, in many countries, women are limited in their full enjoyment of the right of access to information and the myriad benefits, including the economic empowerment and meaningful public participation that it can provide. There is little discussion of the specific information needs of women, the unique obstacles women face, or the means for reaching women with meaningful information. There is little scholarship on the issue and a limited understanding of how enabling women’s meaningful exercise of the right to information can advance the goal of gender equality and build effective and accountable institutions that work for all individuals at all levels. This project will support an international conference convened by The Carter Centre, a US-based non-governmental organization founded to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering. This conference’s aim is to undertake a critical examination of the realities facing women in the right of access to information. The conference will develop a broader community of practice to highlight the obstacles facing women in exercising this right, raise awareness regarding the need to advance this right, build a strong network of advocates, and devise actionable strategies and recommendations to address the challenges.
Second Land Administration Project CoFinancing Trust fund
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The DO is to improve the design and implementation of the land registration system in the Project Area. (Details are in the attached Project Appraisal Document).
COVID-19 UN-Habitat 2020-2025 - UN-Habitat 2020-2023 covid-19
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New/additional funds to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 This is a cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlement Programme. UN-Habitat was established in 1978 as an outcome of the First UN Conference on Human Settlements and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat I) in 1976. It is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to promote socially-, environmentally- and economically- sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. It is a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG), a consortium of 36 UN funds, programs, specialized agencies, departments and offices that play a role in development. The normative-operational mandate of UN-Habitat derives from the Habitat Agenda, adopted by the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in 1996 and renewed in 2016 (Habitat III). The twin goals of the Habitat Agenda are adequate shelter for all and the development of sustainable human settlements in an urbanizing world. UN-Habitat's mission is to advance sustainable urbanization as a driver of development and peace to improve living conditions for all. The agency is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with four main regional offices covering Africa, the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. UN-Habitat also has liaison and information offices in New York, Brussels, Beijing, Moscow and Geneva and project offices in 76 countries across the world. As part of its comparative advantage, UN-Habitat is able to directly engage and sign agreements with sub-national entities (cities, local and regional governments), not just national governments which is the usual case for UN entities. Through this Program Cooperation Agreement (PCA), Sida will continue to focus its support on UN-Habitat's core programmatic mandate by aligning to the agency's 4-year Strategic Plan 2020-2025 and ongoing institutional reform initiatives. This PCA has a total budget of SEK 277 million, and is proposed to be organised into 3 components where funds will be soft-earmarked as follows: Component 1: Soft-earmarked funding to selected domains of change/subprogrammes and result areas of the Strategic Plan 2020-2025, and the implementation of UN-Habitat's organisational reform. These domains of change are: 1. Reduced spatial inequality and poverty in communities across the urban-rural continuum. 2. Enhanced shared prosperity for cities and regions. 3. Strengthened climate action and improved urban environment. 4. Effective urban crisis prevention and response. Component 2: Funding to the area of land ownership and tenure rights in least-developed countries, including post-conflict. This allocation to be managed through the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), a program of UN-Habitat. Component 3: Funding to UN-Habitat's COVID-response and rehabilitation strategy during June 2020 to May 2021.
Objectives
UN-Habitat är FN:s organ för boende, bebyggelse och hållbar stadsutveckling och ska på uppdrag från FN:s Generalförsamling främja socialt, ekonomisk och miljömässigt hållbara städer med målet att tillhandahålla adekvat boende för alla. UN-Habitats vision är "En bättre livskvalitet för alla i en urbaniserad värld. UN-Habitat har ett normativt mandat men är också en organisation med operativ verksamhet som genomför program och projekt. UN-Habitat är exempelvis ansvarig för stadsfrågorna inom FN-systemet och arbetar för att göra städer och bosättningar inkluderande, säkra, motståndskraftiga och hållbara, bland annat som förvaltare av det globala målet om hållbara städer och samhällen (SDG11) samt som fokalt organ för genomförandet av New Urban Agenda (NUA). Det övergripande syftet med insatsen är att stödja genomförandet av UN-Habitats strategiska plan (SP) 2020-2023. SP ger en detaljerad analys av hur hållbar urbanisering kopplar till och bidrar till att uppnå en övergripande hållbar utveckling. SP tydliggör också UN-Habitats åtagande och strategi för hur organisationen, med hjälp av sitt normativa/operativa mandat och sin roll inom FN-systemet, ska bidra till Agenda 2030 och målen för hållbar utveckling, Parisavtalet, Sendai-ramverket och andra globala utvecklingsagendor såsom genomförandet av "New Urban Agenda" (NUA). SP tar särskilt upp löftet i Agenda 2030 "att inte lämna någon utanför". Det övergripande målet för UN-Habitats strategiska plan 2020-2023 är att främja hållbar urbanisering som en drivkraft för utveckling och fred för att förbättra levnadsvillkoren för alla (Sustainable urbanisation is advanced as a driver of development and peace, to improve living conditions for all in line with the SDGs.). För att uppnå huvudmålet har UN-Habitat formulerat fyra sammanlänkade resultatområden (Domains of Change); 1. Minskad ojämlikhet och fattigdom i samhällen och städer. (Reduced spatial inequality and poverty in communities across the urban-rural continuum) - Ökad och lika tillgång till grundläggande tjänster, hållbar mobilitet och till offentliga platser. - Ökad och säker tillgång till mark samt säkra och ekonomiskt överkomliga bostäder. - Effektiv bosättningstillväxt och förnyelse. 2. Ökad fördelning av välstånd i städer och regioner.(Enhanced shared prosperity of cities and regions) - Förbättrade förbindelser och produktivitet i städer och regioner. - Ökade och rättvist fördelade lokalt genererade intäkter. - Utökad användning av ny teknik och innovationer för stadsutveckling. 3. Stärkt hantering av klimatförändringar och förbättrad stadsmiljö. (Strengthened climate action and improved urban environment) - Minskade utsläpp av växthusgaser och förbättrad luftkvalitet. - Förbättrad resurseffektivitet och skydd av ekologiska tillgångar. - Effektiv anpassning av samhällen och infrastruktur till klimatförändringar. 4. Effektivt förebyggande och hantering av kriser och katastrofer i urbana områden. (Effective urban crisis prevention and response) - Ökad social sammanhållning och inkluderande planering för konfliktförebyggande och återuppbyggnad. - Förbättrad levnadsstandard och inkludering av migranter, flyktingar, internflyktingar och återvändande genom effektiv krishantering och återuppbyggnad. - Ökad resiliens av bebyggd miljö och infrastruktur. Under UN-Habitatstödet ingår också en komponent med specifikt stöd till Global Land Tool Network (GLTN). Komponenten finansieras och handläggs av enheten för global ekonomisk hållbar utveckling (GLOBEC). En kort analys av GLTN-komponenten kommer att ingå under denna sammanfattande resultatuppdatering, som görs av ansvarig handläggare från GLOBEC. GLTN rapporterar resultat under fyra övergripande målområden: 1. En accelerad marksektorsreform i organisationer, regioner och länder ("Reform of the land sector accelerated across organizations regions and countries") - Stärkta internationella och nationella markpolicyer, program och praxis -Stärkt internationell och nationell koordinering av marksektorn - Ökad kunskap hos internationella och nationella markaktörer om viktiga markrättighetsfrågor och möjlig lösningar, och deras koppling till bredare utvecklingsresultat 2. Inkluderande, jämställda och ändamålsenliga markrättighetsmetoder och tillvägagångssätt som institutionaliserats av internationella och nationella markaktörer för att stärka och ytterliga skydda markrättigheter ("Inclusive, gender responsive and fit-for-purpuse land tools and approaches instituzionalised by international and national land actors to scale up tenure security interventions") - Prioriterade markrättighetsmetoder för kvinnor, unga och sårbara grupper utvecklas och implementeras - Ökad kapacitet hos internationella och nationella markaktörer för att främja och implementera ändmålsenliga markrättighetsmetoder 3. Förbättrad uppföljning av åtaganden kopplade till markrättigheter för ändamålsenlig planering och politiska beslut("Improved monitoring of land-related commitments for planning and policy decisions") - Förbättrade metoder för uppföljning av markrättigheter på nationell nivå - Förbättrad kapacitet för att samla in och analysera data för relevanta nationella och internationella landorgansationer - Etablering av en globala mekanism för säkrade markrättigheter 4. Kapacitet, kunskap och resurser om marksäkerhet delas och utvecklas mellan internationella och nationella aktörer Capacities, knowledge and resources on land tenure security shared and developed among international and national actors ("Capacities, knowledge and resources on land tenure security shared and developed among international and national actors") - Etablering av effektiva samarbetsmekanismer för program utveckling och implementering - Etabelerade och förbättrade kunskapsplattformar -Stärkt partnerkapacitet för att sprida kunskap och medvetenhet om GLTNs arbete till andra internationella och nationella partners. 2021: The overall aim of the intervention is to support the implementation of UN-Habitat's Strategic Plan for 2020-2023, which was approved and adopted by Member States in May 2019 during the first session of the UN-Habitat Assembly, the organization's main decision-making body. This document provides a detailed analysis of how sustainable urbanization links directly to, and helps achieve, overall sustainable development. It is also a commitment and strategy for how the agency, using its normative/operational mandate and focal point role, will contribute to Agenda 2030 and SDGs, the Paris Agreement, the Sendai framework and other global development agendas, and will accelerated progress in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA). It particularly addresses the pledge in the 2030 Agenda "to leave no one behind". The overall vision is "A better quality of life for all in an urbanizing world". The mission is that "UN-Habitat promotes transformative change in cities and human settlements through knowledge, policy advice, technical assistance and collaborative action to leave no one and no place behind." The overall strategic objective is "Sustainable urbanization is advanced as a driver of development and peace , to improve living conditions for all." A host of persistent and new development problems have been identified by this intervention, including extreme poverty, socioeconomic inequality, slums, social exclusion and marginalization, gender-based discrimination, humanitarian crises, conflict, air pollution, climate change and high unemployment, all of which are increasingly concentrated in urban areas. At the end of the intervention, UN-Habitat intends to realise the following changes: 1. Reduced spatial inequality and poverty in communities across the urban-rural continuum (Domain of Change 1) through - Increased and equal access to basic services, sustainable mobility, and public space; - Increased and secure access to land, and adequate and affordable housing; and - Effective settlements growth and regeneration. 2. Enhanced shared prosperity for cities and regions (Domain of Change 2) through - Improved spatial connectivity and productivity of cities and regions; - Increased and equitably distributed locally generated revenues; and - Expanded deployment of frontier technologies and innovations for urban development. 3. Strengthened climate action and improved urban environment (Domain of Change 3) through - Reduced greenhouse emissions and improved air quality; - Improved resource efficiency and protection of ecological assets; and - Effective adaptation of communities and infrastructure to climate change. 4. Effective urban crisis prevention and response (Domain of Change 4) through - Enhanced social cohesion and inclusive planning for conflict prevention and recovery; - Improved living standards and inclusion of migrants, refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees through effective crisis response and recovery; and - Enhanced resilience of the built environment and infrastructure. The cross-cutting thematic areas are: Resilience and Safety. The social inclusion issues are: Human rights; Gender; Children, youth, and older persons; and Disability. An additional organisational outcome is UN-Habitat as a global Centre of Excellence and Innovation for urbanisation issues. UN-Habitat aspires to increase its presence as a global actor in "setting the global discourse and agenda on sustainable urban development, driving political discussion, generating specialised and cutting-edge knowledge, shaping technical norms, principles and standards, and acting as a multiplier in the exchange of knowledge, experience and best practice in getting cities and other human settlements right". Working through the urban spectrum assumes that UN-Habitat will engage with, affect and impact on a very broad range of actors. UN-Habitat has what is known as Habitat Agenda Partners (HAPs) which groups stakeholders around 15 different partner constituency groups and facilitate engagement at policy, strategy, program and project levels. In a sense, all will benefit from the successful implementation of the strategic plan. However, the main stakeholders whose situation will improve for the better if the program outcomes are achieved, and who will benefit from access to norms, tools and increased capacity development are primarily: national governments, local and sub-national authorities, civil society organisations, grassroot organisations (including organised groups of the urban poor), and urban communities, particularly their women, children and youth. In addition to the support to the Strategic Plan, the Sida PCA will have two more specific components: Support to land rights and secure tenure issues, implemented through the Global Land Tool Network program GLTN was formed by UN-Habitat and a network of partners in 2006, with seed and development funding from Sweden and Norway. The objective is to overcome the challenges and obstacles in delivering land tenure security at scale and to fill critical gaps in land governance and administration approaches, tools and systems. Today, GLTN is a UN-Habitat program that provides a dynamic multi-stakeholder alliance of more than 85 land institutions and actors committed to increasing access to land and tenure security for all, with a focus on the poor and women. GLTN uses an inclusive approach to the development of land tools, builds knowledge on land tenure and broader development outcomes, and develops the capacity of land actors to use the tools. GLTN has a program strategy for 2018-2030 and is implementing its 3rd phase during 2019-2023. The program objective - "improved tenure security" - directly contributes to all domains of change in the UN-Habitat strategic plan, and specifically the outcome area on "Increased and secure access to land and adequate and affordable housing". Through this PCA, Sida intends to continue to support GLTN core program activities which will help enable scaling up its work at country level. In addition to delivering improved land tenure in countries such as Zambia, Uganda, DRC, Nepal, etc., GLTN has contributed to greater consistency in the use of land tenure concepts and approaches by the international land community. It is contributing to monitoring 12 indicators of the SDGs related to land, land indicators of the NUA, and in pursuance of the guidance note of the UN Secretary-General on land and conflict. Support to UN-Habitat's COVID-19 Response Plan UN-Habitat recently shared its COVID-19 Response Plan with Member States and a range of partners as well as launched its COVID-19 Campaign. The response plan focuses on three main thematic areas of action: i) supporting local governments and community-driven solutions in informal settlements; ii) providing urban data mapping and knowledge for informed, evidence-based, decision-making, and iii) mitigating economic impact and initiating recovery and longer term policy change to build greater resilience. Sida assesses that UN-Habitat's planning and development approach will complement the humanitarian activities of other actors. At the moment, many humanitarian actors are unable to reach slum settlements or work with slum communities. UN-Habitat, together with its local networks, will facilitate the inclusion of slums in city-level responses. The PCA with UN-Habitat is relevant to the Swedish strategy for globally sustainable environment, climate and oceans 2018-2022. It will contribute to the specific outcome areas on "Environmentally sustainable cities and communities" and "Increased access to basic social services and housing for people living in poverty in urban areas". The PCA is also relevant to the Swedish strategy for global development cooperation on sustainable economic development 2018 2022, specifically the outcome areas on "Strengthened ownership and tenure rights for land and natural resources", "Strengthened women's economic empowerment"and "More effective domestic resource mobilization, increased financial stability and counteracting corruption".
LAND-at-scale Mozambique: Scaling community legal literacy, land rights certification and climate resilience
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Poverty in Mozambique is concentrated in rural areas and thus associated with a high dependency on agriculture and natural resources, including land. Mozambique has a legal framework recognizing this dependency through a progressive Land Law. However, main obstacles to the proper implementation of the law include the communities’ lack of formalized land tenure, limited knowledge regarding land rights, low participation in decision-making among community members, and a lack of capacity among local government officials. The situation is further hampered by severe impacts from climate change. The main objective of the current intervention is to increase community legal awareness and strengthen security of land tenure rights, creating capacity at local level to implement and leverage the progressive provisions of the Mozambican legal framework. The programme will contribute to community preparation to intervene in an informed manner in the land sector and will also contribute to the delimitation of community and individual land-use rights based on good faith occupation and customary rights, and their integration into the formal land system. To achieve these objectives, a large-scale campaign will be rolled out, across selected districts from all three regions of the national territory, with two main and interlinked interventions, namely social preparation & legal literacy; and community land rights registration and certification.
Pérou - Impulsons des systèmes alimentaires durables selon une approche basée sur les droits humains
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L'objectif est que les populations vulnérables des zones rurales et périurbaines du Pérou renforcent leurs droits. Contribuant au CSC Pérou et aux ODD 1, 2, 5, 12, 13, 15 et 17 en mettant l'accent sur 3 droits : - Droits environnementaux : protection de l'environnement, gestion des ressources naturelles (dont l’eau), accès à la terre, résilience face au changement climatique. - Droit à l'alimentation et aux ressources productives, en promouvant des systèmes alimentaires durables (SAD) : production agroécologique, commercialisation locale avec valeur ajoutée, entreprenariats agricoles et non agricoles verts. - Droits des femmes : autonomisation, réduction de la violence et des inégalités de genre dans l'exercice des droits. Nous prévoyons des actions territoriales de développement d'alternatives locales et des actions plus globales de niveau national. Nos principales stratégies : - Renforcement institutionnel de nos partenaires péruviens pour qu'ils exercent leu...(+24 characters extra in FundHub text)
Objectives
Les familles rurales et périurbaines (femmes, hommes, jeunes, enfants) des zones d’intervention et les organisations de la société civile exercent et promeuvent leurs droits d’accès à l’alimentation, aux ressources naturelles, productives et environnementales, à la terre et au territoire.
Target Groups
2.533 femmes et 2.132 hommes de familles vulnérables de zones rurales et périurbaines du Pérou qui se consacrent totalement ou partiellement à l’agriculture familiale ; avec un accent particulier envers les femmes (entrepreneuriats, participation aux décisions, etc.) et les jeunes. 25 organisations communautaires et de producteurs, en ce inclus 4 organisations de femmes et 3 organisations/réseaux de jeunes qui représentent ou collaborent avec les personnes susmentionnées.
Transition agro-écologique au sein d’un territoire rural par une approche basée sur les droits
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Ensemble avec trois ONG sénégalaises, Solidagro œuvre pour une transition agro-écologique à l’échelle de l’arrondissement de Toubacouta (région de Fatick) afin d’assurer le droit à l’alimentation et à l’eau pour tous. L’outcome est basé sur une approche basée sur les droits, en impliquant autant les porteurs d’obligations (les collectivités locales et les services techniques de l’État) que les détenteurs de droits (les producteurs et les productrices agricoles de l’agriculture familiale). Pour atteindre l’outcome, des collaborations sont menées avec huit types d’acteurs principaux : (1) les Organisations Communautaires de Base (OCB), (2) les Comités de gestion Eau-Hygiène-Assainissement (COGES EHA), (3) les comités de gestion des forêts et comités de gestion foncière, (4) les conseils communaux, (5) les services techniques, (6) les clubs scolaires et cantines scolaires, (7) les commerçants-distributeurs, et (8) les consommateurs. Les résultats qui mèneront à l’outcome sont les suivants : 1/ Les capacités des détenteurs de droit à faire respecter leurs droits en matière de gouvernance des ressources naturelles et foncières sont renforcées avec une attention particulière aux droits des femmes et des enfants. 2/ La mise en pratique des principes et techniques agro-écologiques est intégrée dans le cadre institutionnel des communes. 3/ Les pratiques agro-écologiques ont augmenté la disponibilité des et l’accès aux groupes alimentaires critiques (poulet, œufs, fruits, légumes). Les activités concernent : (1) Le renforcement de capacités notamment sur la gouvernance foncière, les codes de l’EHA et de l’Environnement, les techniques et pratiques agro-écologiques, les bonnes pratiques en EHA et sur le genre. (2) L’appui à la réalisation de périmètres maraîchers agro-écologiques et des infrastructures d’assainissement (3) Le plaidoyer.
Objectives
Le niveau de sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnel des détenteurs de droit dans l’arrondissement de Toubacouta à l’horizon 2026 a été amélioré par l’émergence d’une agroécologie paysanne viable et d’une bonne gouvernance territoriale. Le droit à l’alimentation et à l’eau potable est promu par une participation citoyenne de qualité ayant les femmes et les jeunes au centre de l’action, et inspirant les collectivités territoriales, qui prennent des décisions politiques majeures favorables.
Target Groups
Les groupes cibles sont : 64 Organisations Communautaires de Base (OCB), 64 Comités de gestion Eau-Hygiène-Assainissement (COGES EHA), les comités de gestion des forêts et comités de gestion foncière, les 4 conseils communaux, les services techniques, les clubs scolaires et cantines scolaires, les commerçants-distributeurs, et les consommateurs.
SCI Integrated ,Health , WASH, NFI and Protection Flood Response in River Nile Sep. 2021 for the affected po
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Between 06 and 09 August 2021, heavy rains and riverine flooding led to the sudden damage and destruction of homes, property and other infrastructure across multiple parts of River Nile state, directly impacting over 39,000 people. This project is planned and designed to provide multi-sectoral response across the NFI, WASH, Health and Protection clusters to meet the immediate life-saving needs of the affected population, mitigate against significant increases in morbidity and mortality from disease, rehabilitate affected WASH infrastructure and Health Facilities, and provide additional support to the most vulnerable individuals. Following destruction of thousands of homes, families are living without adequate shelter. An immediate need therefore is for emergency shelter and NFIs for those displaced and who have lost property, including for mosquito nets to prevent vector-borne disease transmission. Save the Children with local partner Alla Ahub Atbara (A3CO) will procure and distribute 500 NFI kits to households that have had their homes completely destroyed. Lack of access to clean water in affected areas, with water points damaged and contaminated, creates a serious risk of increased disease as well as of water-borne and vector-borne diseases. There is a strong need for general hygiene materials across the flood-affected population with specific needs for menstrual hygiene and dignity kits for women and adolescent girls. Solid waste management clean-up campaigns and vector control are required in the flood-affected areas to manage the debris from the flooding and treat stagnant pools of water. SCI will rehabilitate and improve three emergency mini water yards, providing clean water to thousands of households, and will provide water treatment and quality monitoring supplies. SCI with local partner A3CO will procure and distribute 250 family hygiene kits including jerry cans for safe water storage, and 250 female dignity kits for women and girls of menstrual age. SCI will provide tools for solid waste management and will train health facility staff, as well as supporting Ministry of Health conduct vector control campaign across two localities whilst local partner A3CO will train hygiene promoters, lead hygiene promotion activities, and set up community committees to manage WASH infrastructure. With many health facilities directly impacted by damage of flooding, and with increased demand for health services caused by direct injury during flooding and by increased disease due to unhygienic and unsanitary living conditions, mobile clinics are needed to provide services temporarily to the affected population, especially those displaced, and meet the increased demand, whilst existing static facilities are restocked. SCI will operate a mobile health clinic for 3 months visiting the most-affected locations to provide essential primary health services, and will support pregnant women with clean delivery kits and wassist patients who need referral for secondary services, as well as providing essential supplies, equipment and furniture to existing Health Facilities to ensure ongoing quality care. There is greater risk of negative coping mechanisms due to economic insecurity following the loss of property, productive assets and livelihoods, and additional risks from lack of privacy whilst displaced. Two Community-based Child Protection Networks (CBCPNs) will be established and trained to share information on key protection risks, especially to children and risk reduction measures and the CBCPNs will support with the identification and referral of particularly vulnerable or at-risk individuals, for additional material support. SCI will also provide recreational materials and equipment for a multi-purpose community centre affected by the flooding, so that children are provided with a safe space in which to play.
Provision of Improve Shelter Materials and INFIs for Returnee in Um Baru locality - North Darfur
Objectives
On the line of The Sudan integrated response planning framework to promote sustainable return and reintegration (This framework for an integrated response, developed by the RRR (Recovery, Return and Reintegration) Sector, brings together efforts and expertise of humanitarian and development actors in selected areas of return. The protracted nature of Sudan’s displacement has demonstrated that it is not sufficient nor efficient to implement humanitarian and development activities in isolation, but that a sustainable response in support of return and reintegration requires closer cooperation between all stakeholders.).The framework have six outputs,this project is designed to achieve the output three (: Returnees are provided with NFIs on arrival, and where needed with transitional and more permanent shelters advocacy for adequate land management) The selected area for these pilot projects is Um Baru locality - North Darfur State about 180 km north west El Fasher city Based on Inter - Agency Mission in Um Baru locality conducted 21 - 24 March 2016 three main areas are identified as high returnees areas in Um Baru locality:(Um Baru is a local name of locality in North Darfur State) 1 - Orchi (name of a village) Villages area located 32 kilometers southeast Um Baru town with 9,300 individuals,7660 adult over 18, 60% are women, the project will serve 500 HHs (household) (2500 individual500 men, 700 women, 600 boys and 700 girls) by providing them with improve shelter materials and NFIs. 2 - Anabagi (name of a village) Villages area located 56 kilometers southeast Um Baru with 4,300 individual the project will serve 500 HHs (2500 individual 500 men, 700 women, 600 boys and 700 girls) by providing one kit of improve shelter materials and one kit of NFIs for each HH. 3 - Abu Leha (name of a village) Villages area located 21.6 KM northeast Ana Bagi with 6500 adult over 18 and 3500 children the project will serve 500 HHs (2500 individual 500 men, 700 women, 600 boys and 700 girls) by providing one kit of improve shelter materials and one kit of NFIs for each HH. In addition 200 more permanent transitional shelter will be constructed and distributed to the above village locations as follows: Orchi 65 HHs, Anabagi 70 HHs and Abuliha 65 HHs. The catchment population in the project area Based on Inter - Agency Mission in Um Baru locality conducted 21 - 24 March 2016 is 23,900 individuals include returnees, host communities and People With Special Needs(PWSN), out of which the project will intervene to assist 8500 individual (2000 men, 2500 women, 2000 boys and 2000 girls), Due to high needs and low amount of fund to cover the total beneficiaries, the project will select most vulnerable households based on criteria of selection developed by the implementing partner in collaboration with community leaders of the beneficiary the following are the criteria of selection: * Household headed by woman * Household with more children under 5 * Household with individual of (PWSN) (People With Special Need) * Single elders Along the project cycle building capacity of beneficiaries is carried out through conducting of workshops and orientation sessions in different subjects e.g environmental conservation, natural resource management, GBV (Gender Based Violence), and HIV(Human Immiono-deficiency Virus) 00 Reply to TRC Comments: NOHS is a national organization it will receive sub- grant from the total project budget equivalent to 30,300 USD and occurs in the budget of the project in four lines: Deputy Project Coordinator,Field Officer, Volunteers and NFIs Distribution Cost. The Criteria of selection for 200 Transitional Shelters is different of that for Improve Shelter Materials and NFIs, here only households with children under 5 will receive the transitional shelters because of limited shelters compare to high number of target beneficiaries.
Housing, Land and Property support for displacement affected communities including internally displaced person
Objectives
This multi-cluster project seeks to strengthen the Housing, Land and Property rights of the displaced affected communities including internally displaced person, returnees and vulnerable community in Jonglei state through preventative and remedial mechanisms and to provide Emergency School Feeding for children in schools in hard to reach areas of Duk through multi-sectoral emergency interventions to increase students’ attendance and nutrition, encourage girls retention, to support local markets where possible, and to provide female and youth income-generation and spread lifesaving nutrition and hygiene practices. Insecurity of land tenure and limited access to agricultural land are some of the major obstacles to the provision of sustainable solutions for vulnerable displaced populations across South Sudan. The project will prioritise land tenure security and facilitate the development and acquisition of legal land tenure documentation for enhanced shelter and livelihoods initiatives. Capacity building for humanitarian and local actors on HLP rights will be done to ensure that this is mainstreamed within the interventions of other stakeholders. Trainings and advocacy on HLP will also help to ensure rights holders, duty bearers and decision makers are empowered to claim, promote and exercise HLP rights and subsequently address HLP violations such as land grabbing, multiple land claims, forced evictions among others. Prevention of HLP rights violations will be approached using community structures in dispute settlement, advocacy and through information, counseling and legal assistance. The project will assist displaced persons attain durable solutions through the prevention of further displacement by supporting them to overcome legal obstacles related to accessing and controlling housing, land and property rights. The project will strengthen dispute resolution for community structures through collaborative Dispute Resolution (CDR) trainings to ensure alternative dispute resolution mechanisms are used to resolve HLP specific cases in the first instance and litigation as a last resort. To further enhance collaboration and multisector responses to forced evictions, the project will work closely with the protection and shelter cluster and other humanitarian actors. As the community-based protection systems are often male dominated and often discriminate against women, NRC will prioritize female beneficiaries during information sessions and legal assistance considering their vulnerability levels. The proposed school feeding intervention will assure children’s continued access to food while continuing their learning and creating a positive pull factor which keeps boys away from fighting and enhances girls’ protection. This project will also contribute to monitoring children’s nutritional intake, guaranteeing that food intended for them is indeed consumed by them. Additionally, the proposed mechanism will create income generation for School Mothers/Grandmothers who will also be a positive female presence in school in addition to training teachers/PTA to spread lifesaving skills related to nutrition and hygiene practices. The action also includes a small youth component to encourage positive community engagement while creating income, to fill needed roles in the school feeding mechanism and to provide skills for youth. Essential life-saving messaging on hygiene, nutrition and protection will also be disseminated by the action. For the proposed project, male and female IDP, returnees and host community children, aged 6-18 in school communities in affected IPC 4/5 areas will be primarily targeted as those in need of nutritious school feeding. Teachers, PTAs members school mothers/grandmothers and youth food monitors from the community will be reached directly with training. Procurement of food will be done at Juba level, however, local bidders from Jonglei will be encourage to apply to minimize transport cost to Duk.