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Cape Town informal settlements inundated by floods
14 June 2022
In photos: Cape of floods City residents battle cold and rain as a heavy storm hits Cape Town The Kuilsriver gushes along Covid informal settlement in Mfuleni, Cape Town, flooding the bordering houses. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks Cape Town has been hit a by a huge storm. Our journalists photographed…
In Indonesian Borneo, a succession of extractive industries multiplies impacts, social fractures
13 June 2022
Much of the landscape of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province has been transformed, its formerly vast forests razed for logging, monocrop agriculture and open-cast coal mining. A recently published study analyzes how waves of extractive industries have affected the inhabitants of one village in the…
6,000 health and environmental ‘time bombs’ still to be defused –South African Govt decades behind schedule
9 June 2022
So little money has been allocated to cleaning up the legacy of the South African mining industry that it will take another 70 years to clean up just a fraction of the country’s more than 6,000 abandoned mines. There are roughly 6,100 “derelict or ownerless” mines scattered across South Africa,…
Projects
Biodiversity Conservation of Public Lands in the Brazilian Amazon
Duration: January 2011 - January 2013
Value: $5,958,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The Biodiversity Conservation of Public Lands in the Brazilian Amazon project will support the development and implementation of capacity building and technical assistance activities to strengthen conservation and management of biologically significant target areas, representing diverse terrestrial
Ecuador Sustainable Forests and Coasts
Duration: January 2009 - January 2014
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The Ecuador Sustainable Forests and Coasts project aims to improve income for local communities, the project helps increase their productivity and the sale of products that depend on conservation (such as organic cocoa, vegetable ivory nuts, and crabmeat). For example: helping communities meet requi
Evaluation Research and Communication: Global
Duration: January 2013 - January 2018
Value: $18,800,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The purpose of the Evaluation, Research and Communication (ERC) project is to create, expand, and communicate the results of evidence-based knowledge around best land tenure and property rights practices in order to enhance internal USAID and external USG learning, guide program design and implemen
Ethno-Environment Corridors in the Brazilian Amazon
Duration: January 2009 - January 2012
Value: $5,188,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
This project aimed to promote and improve biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resources management in public lands, through the development of “ethno-environmental corridors”, i.e. conservation regions comprised of a mosaic of officially recognized protected areas and indigenous lands,
Governance in Environment Frontiers: Brazil
Duration: January 2010 - January 2013
Value: $500,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The Governance in Environment Frontiers project seeks to improve sustainable environmental resource management of farm producers under the responsible sourcing chain of soy and beef production, in private properties on the Amazon fringe and in the Xingu region in the state of Mato Grosso. The projec
Indonesia Marine and Climate Support
Duration: January 2010 - January 2014
Value: $17,600,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The Indonesia Marine and Climate Support (IMACS) is a four-year project that is aimed to improve marine resources management in Indonesia. IMACS is working to strengthen the management capacity of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) and local government, enhance local communities and
No Climate Transition Without Securing Land Rights
2 June 2022
The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is taking place in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire, from 9 to 20 May 2022. The theme: “Land, Life. Legacy: From scarcity to prosperity.” “We are faced with a crucial choice,” Deputy…
Post COP26 Reflections: A Focus on Opportunities for Customary Land Rights
19 May 2022
May 19th 2022 at 9:00AM-10:30AM EST (15:00 PM– 16:30 PM CEST) 2021 was a year of big promises concerning tenure rights. At COP26, an unprecedented 1.7 billion dollar pledge was made in support of ancestral community land rights, aiming to place IPLCs rights central to global policy-making and…
