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Displaying 2001 - 2010 of 6947LAND-at-scale Rwanda: Towards a fair and robust land use management and governance system connecting people fo
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The Rwanda Land Tenure Reform programme, launched in 2009, gained international attention by regularizing land tenure at an unparalleled scale. Over eleven million land parcels were demarcated, and eight million land titles were issued to their rightful owners. Despite this, the land tenure system still faces challenges. The land administration and information system (LAIS) does not yet sufficiently address social aspects, such as incorporating informal transactions and safeguards for women, or reducing high costs of participating. Land disputes remain common, and pressure on the courts to resolve these conflicts need to be decreased. These challenges undermine the legitimacy and proper functioning of land governance. This situation is further hampered by the effects of climate change on the country.The objective of this LAND-at-scale project is to improve and ensure sustainability of land registration and management systems and their implementing institutions for enhanced perceived and actual tenure security for the people of Rwanda. This will be done through the following project strategies:1) Institutionalize a (financially) sustainable land administration information and management system.2) Implement sustainable, climate-resilient land use planning at national level.3) Implement a more just decision-making process by local mediators.4) Strengthen academic capacity to assist in the further development of a fair and just land governance system.Kadaster International is coordinator of the project and is responsible to implement strategies 1, 2 and 4. The International Development Law Organization (IDLO) is responsible for implementing strategy 3.This project is being managed by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, on behalf of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Sustainable Land Information Management in Vietnam (Part I)
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The current system of land use and land rights in Vietnam does not utilise the full potential of the available land. Therefore, Vietnam is in the process of revising the Land Law. One of the main envisaged changes is that bigger plots are allowed through land consolidation. Then farmers can develop from being barely subsistence to agricultural entrepreneurs. The Vietnamese government has requested the advice and support from Kadaster. This mission will further analyse the request for support as input for an actual project plan.
CO-506696
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The programme will empower precarious workers in the highly informal agri-food sector - mostly micro, small and medium enterprises - in 3 ASEAN member-states (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) with the aim of addressing their rights, needs and vulnerabilities through the promotion of three pillars of the JSF Decent Work: labour rights at work, social protection and social dialogue for all. Climate change impacts, economic insecurity and occupational safety and health of these workers will be addressed by more adequate and shock-responsive social protection measures. Labour law enforcement will be enhanced to upgrade their livelihoods. These workers will be heard by employers and relevant government structures through dialogue and negotiation mechanisms. A particular focus is put on women workers who are impacted differently due to prevalent gender norms constituting additional obstacles to their empowerment, including gender-based violence and time scarcity due to long hours of unpaid care and domestic work.Without gender justice, decent work cannot be achieved. Following a rights-based and gender-transformative approach, 16 local partners jointly cover the target groups in the3 countries. They will cooperate to empower local groups and their leaders to influence powerholders more effectively. 3 regional partners will add value through learning and knowledge building, tapping from experiences in the ASEAN region, while leveraging the relevant ASEAN policy frameworks, in particular those promoting decentwork, social protection and gender equality. 9 collaborators, including the local Oxfam offices, will support the partners through capacity strengthening, knowledge sharing and brokering cooperation. At the end of the programme, these women workers will become more resilient to shocks and risks, have more agency and voice, and work and live on more equal footing in society. Other beneficiaries include male workers, network members and staff of partners and stakeholders
CO-OiC Hosting Service
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PEM III is the final phase of MACP funded project implementing in the Mekong and trans-boundary 3S region shared Cambodia and Vietnam border. The project builds on the successes of PEM I and II where the increasing non-sustainable development projects such as mining, economic land concession, large-scale hydropower and agroindustry plantation put more pressures on natural resources and ecosystems in the region. Illegal fishing, logging, water pollution and climate change are the facing issues of local community. Communitycapacity and engagement to protect and manage those resources are critical issues to natural resource governance. Community#s interests and voices to inform planning and decision-making is critical to the sustainable management of the Mekong and the 3S. A number of government-led transboundary initiatives are underway to better assess and manage the Mekong and the 3S. This includes but is notlimited to: joint fisheries management plan for the Sekong and Mekong (Laos and Cambodia), the establishment of a coordination mechanism and joint action plan to better manage shared resources of the Sesan and Srepok (Cambodia and Vietnam); and a cumulative impact assessment of energy interventions, including hydro, in the Sekong Basin, supported by the International Finance Corporation. In Vietnam, Srepok River (Vietnam called Dak Krong) is one of major tributaries of the Mekong flowing from ##k L#k province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam through Ratanakiri and Stung Treng provinces of Cambodia. Srepok basin spans over 12,030 square kilometersin Vietnam and a mainstream total length of 290 kilometers. 34 fish species of high economic value have been identified, constituting 17.4 percent of total fish species found in the river providing daily food and employment to thousands local households. However,they are facing challenges including water pollution and shortages due to releases from upstream factories, changed flow regimes that cause extreme flood/drought patterns as a result of dams, and the loss of fish in cages and the river. Natural species and aquatic resources are overexploited. Agriculture activities are condensed in the rivers and the lakes. The livelihoods of some riverine communities are at risk because of reduced income from fisheries, the absence of new or alternative livelihood models and limited market access. Fishery associations were formed 10 years ago but they are not well functioning due to lack of finances and support from local government. The provincial government issued decision number 676/Q#-UBND dated 11/3/2016 for protecting fishery resources in inland water bodies in ##k L#k province up to 2020 and the vision up to 2030, has not been effectively implemented. In Rattanakiri of Cambodia, Srepok river flowdownstream from Vietnam, is one of the most vulnerable provinces with 41.2% poverty rate partly attributed to inequitable access to natural resources and to the negative impacts of climate change. In the downstream of Mekong in Kratie province, two large-scale hydropower projects (2600 and 900MW) have been planned which is the most concerned of local community for potential impacts on ecosystems and aquatic resources for livelihoods. Over exploitation and poor fishery governance lead to decreased fisherycaptures that affect income communities. Illegal fishing and logging are still the issues to be addressed through improve governance. PEM III will focus on the linkage of its community development work more closely to conservation efforts by bringing together partner organizations, conservation NGO partners and targeted communities to share, learn and network and sustain their activities to conserve aquatic resources and river ecosystems. The purpose of the project is #to contribute to the conservation of aquatic resources and river ecosystems in the Mekong, Sesan and Srepok and facilitate a sustainable project exit plan/strategy.# 1) Oxfamwill continue building the capacity of water resource dependent communities to manage their freshwater ecosystems, including community fisheries and other water resources management communities to participate in fishery/water resource management and conservation decision making. The project delivers series of training workshops related to water/fishery resource related laws and regulations and skills including leadership management and sustainable financing. Youth engagement will be one of key priority of the project. 2) Oxfam will deepen partnerships with local and international conservation organizations likeCI/Sci-Cap, WorldFish, and WWF and will strengthen key alliances/network to strengthen Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in key target areas in the Mekong and the 3S. 3) Oxfam will focus on exit/sustainability strategy to ensure sustainability of PEM I and PEM II supported communities. The project will document lessons learned from PEM (I, II, III) on how natural/water resource dependent communities are empowered toprotect and manage their natural resources to inform future projects. This includes evaluations, reports, and outcome harvesting that Oxfam and partners can share with potential donors for fundraising efforts. Oxfam in Vietnam and its partner, CSRD, PEM project aims to support the rights and voices of vulnerable communities in the Lower Mekong Basin, whose livelihoods are, or may be affected by, large-scale developments. Oxfam in Vietnam and its partner will focus on enhancing local capacity and increased their engagementin water quality monitoring, networking, fishery resource protection and co-management model, sustainable aquaculture (environmentally friendly aquaculture practice) to reduce dependence on water resources. In Cambodia, SCW is working with 14 Fishery Communitiesin Rattanakiri province in 5 districts, 18 communes and 68 villages to develop their capacity, network and develop sustainability strategy of 14 PEM supported fishery communities. The expected outcome of the project is that #Fishery resource dependent communitiesin the 3S regions have sustainableaccess to fisheries resources.# NRD is building capacity and develops sustainability strategy for 11 Fishery Communities in the Mekong, Sambour district, Kratie province. The expected outcome of the project is that #fishery communities and Sambor YouthNetwork (SYN) in the target villages of Sambor district are better informed and assisted in making alternative livelihood and lead to improved food security, social capital and financial stability, by sustainable utilizing their protected natural resourcein their regions, particularly, the deep pools of the Mekong.# Overall Outcome 1: Resource dependent communities in the Mekong and 3S have realized their legal rights to natural resources and increased the knowledge, skills, and networks to sustainablymanage riverine ecosystems and are able to respond to external power interests to protect and preserve their ecosystems. Objective 1: By 2021, 30 communities in Cambodia and Vietnam are recognized as community fisheries and have the skills and knowledge to promote the conservation of freshwater ecosystems in the Mekong and 3S rivers. Objective 2: Communities are networked among themselvesand with other concerned stakeholders to improve conservation outcomes of riverine resources and to support thesustainability of community institutions to continue protecting their resources. Objective 3: The level of illegal activities in 10 Fisheries Communities in Cambodia is subsequently reduced by 70% because of the ability to take on time-action; 10 communities in Vietnam are able to monitor water quality and inform daily access and consumption of water and are able to hold polluters accountable. Objective 4: 200 families in the 30 PEM supported communities will have adopted alternative, more sustainable livelihood options. Overall Outcome 2: Exiting PEM partners are successfully accessing funding and their support to selected communities continues sustainably Objective 5:By 2021, all PEM supported communities will have access to alternative sources offunding to ensure communities are properly supported. PEM III Project Management Unit (PMU) is based in Oxfam in Cambodia. PEM III builds on the experiences and lessons learned from PEM phase 1 and 2 and from other Oxfam natural resource managementprojects and focuses more in-dept on integrating Oxfam#s community development related to conservation efforts in the targeted areas. Sustainability of the project lies in a comprehensive phasing out strategy development and implementation and active engagement of diverse community groups, especially youths in water/fishery resource governance. PEM PMU pays coordinating role in collaboration with focal points in OiC and OiV and its partners will discuss with community to identify key lessons learned, issues and challenges to inform exit strategy and identify funding opportunities to ensure community and partners are integrated into the relevant networks and alliances needed for them to continue with their conservation efforts. Oxfam will coordinate with other MACP grantees (ForumSyd, WorldFish) and other like-minded organizations like WWF to strengthen networking of communities, thus creating a landscape approach to the conservation of fishery and riverine ecosystem, whichalso fosters learning and collaboration. In addition, the project will equip skills to community to enable them to monitor aquatic resources and protect riverine resources and ecosystems by bringing in technical expertise from conservation NGOs and connecting these NGOS to train targeted communities. The most important thing to sustain fishery/river resources is governance # this means that community shall be empowered through skill training, confidence building and encouragement and given opportunities for engagement and voicingandconvince their government to allocate budget for natural resource management.
CO-506696
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The programme will empower precarious workers in the highly informal agri-food sector - mostly micro, small and medium enterprises - in 3 ASEAN member-states (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) with the aim of addressing their rights, needs and vulnerabilities through the promotion of 3 pillars of the JSF Decent Work: labour rights at work, social protection and social dialogue for all. Climate change impacts, economic insecurity and occupational safety and health of these workers will be addressed by more adequate and shock-responsive social protection measures. Labour law enforcement will be enhanced to upgrade their livelihoods. These workers will be heard by employers and relevant government structures through dialogue and negotiation mechanisms. A particular focus is put on women workers who are impacted differently due to prevalent gender norms constituting additional obstacles to their empowerment, including gender-based violence and time scarcity due to long hours of unpaid care and domestic work. Without gender justice, decent work cannot be achieved. Following a rights-based and gender transformative approach, 16 local partners jointly cover the target groups in the 3 countries. They will cooperate to empower local groups and their leaders to influence power holders more effectively. 3 regional partners will add value through learning and knowledge building, tapping from experiences in the ASEAN region, while leveraging the relevant ASEAN policy frameworks, in particular those promoting decent work, social protection and gender equality. 9 collaborators, including the local Oxfam offices, will support the partners through capacity strengthening, knowledge sharing and brokering cooperation. At the end of the programme, these women workers will become more resilient to shocks and risks, have more agency and voice, and work and live on more equal footing in society. Other beneficiaries include male workers, network members and staff of partners and stakeholders. By 2026, 69.200 women workers in the agri-food sector, including small holder farmers, in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, exercise their right and have access to adequate labour and social protection contributing to gender equality and (shock) resilience, through better representation, policy and practice changes.
HO-503001
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The Global Call to Action (GCA) is a coordination and mobilisation mechanism to accelerate momentum towards the target of doubling the recognition of Indigenous Peoples# and community land rights by 2020. Co-convened by ILC, RRI and Oxfam, the GCA creates a platform and gives voice to Indigenous People and local communities while also nurturing strategic initiatives and monitoring progress towards recognition of Indigenous Peoples #and community land rights. In 2015 and 2016 Oxfam received a grant from ILC to host the GCA coordinator and provide resources for the implementation of the Land Rights Now Campaign, one of the key strategic initiatives of the GCA launched in March 2016. Building on the efforts of existing networks and organizations, the Campaign draws attention to collective actions around the world and seeks to make Indigenous Peoples and local communities land rights a global priority by unitingand amplifying existing efforts. The first year of implementation proved that there is huge support and strength in the ranks of the GCA - the next phase seeks to transform that into change on the ground. This proposal focuses on the role of the GCA coordinationof this next phase for 1 year from 1 May 2017 to 30 April 2018. The key focus is on implementation of Land Rights Now initiative with some strategic support to broader GCA coordination.
UWONET -Women's Leadership
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UWONET coordinates a number of CSO coalitions on key women#s rights issues. These coalitions include; CSO working group on the Marriage and Divorce Bill, the Women Democracy Group comprising of strategic women based organisations such as ACFODE. UWONET supported the development of the Women#s Manifesto focuses on 5 gender priorities of Women#s health, Women#s economic empowerment; Women#s land right, Women and girls# education and Women, Politics and decision making. The 2012/13 Uganda National Household Survey showed anoverall literacy rate of 71 percent among persons aged 10 years and above. Findings reveal that men are more literate than their female counter parts with literacy rates of 77 and 65 percent respectively. Overall, women still lag behind men in a number of important aspects and more needs to be done to address the numerous constraints to full gender equality. For example, there are still cultural attitudes and practices that are biased against women and which hinder women#s access to education, economic benefits, health services and decision-making. In regard to politics, Uganda has also implemented several initiatives aimed at strengthening women#s political participation in the country. Since 1986, Statistics indicate a steady rise in female participation in political leadership.In the 6th Parliament (1996#2001) there were 39 districts in Uganda, accordingly 39 women were elected as female district MPs. Whenthe 7th Parliament (2001#2006) was elected, Uganda had introduced 17 new districts, securing women with at least 56 seats in Parliament. Despite progress in the numbers of women in representation, the lack of visible transformative change in legislations, policies and programmes aimed at women raises pertinent questions regarding effective engagement and influence of women in politics. As perJuly 2014, none of the prominent political parties in Uganda has achieved a 50:50 representation of women as per the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (2004)that Ugandais signatory . In response to the above, Oxfam Uganda and UWONET with support from OIE will implement a 5 Year project that will focus on building women#s leadership through building a strong women#s movement that advances capacity building for women leaders. This project will be implemented be building on the foregoing project# Porticus that aimed at fostering women#s leadership by addressing issues of Violence against women, women#s land rights and implementation of the Maputol protocol. It will be implemented in Nebbi, Kotido and Lamwo Districts which already have good working relationships with the partner as well as District partners and the Women#s rights networks supported by the foregoing project. The project will seek to build capacity of womenleaders in governance. Specifically, the project will seek to achieve the following outcomes i) Women have increased opportunities and skills to participate in leadership positions in the targeted communities ii) Local government authorities in the targeted communities are aware of their duties to rights holders and existing policy and legislation on gender equality iii) Improved local capacity of partner marginalized groups/CSO#s to demand gender equality. iv) Strengthened partner capacity, coordination and reach in terms of national advocacy surrounding GBV The project through UWONET intends to continue working closely with local partners (women networks) based in the project area in the course of project implementation including Pachego Women#sClubin Nebbi District, WORUDET in Lamwo district, and NAKERE Rural Women#s Activists in Kotido district. UWONET will focus on enhancinginstitutional capacities of the networks to build activism for the enactment of gender laws and policy.
LASPNET- Linking & Learning
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The CAMPAIGN FOR PRO-POOR, EFFECTIVE AND INCLUSIVE LAND REFORMS IN UGANDA is undertaken by a consortium of Legal Aid Service Providers Network (LASPNET), ActionAid Uganda (AAU) and Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Uganda taking into consideration their complementary technical competencies and experience in land rights work. The lead Applicant is Legal Aid Service Providers Network (LASPNET), a Non-Government Organization of 52 members established in 2004 and spread in 70 Districts across the Uganda. The network was established to provide a collaborative framework and strategic linkages for Legal Aid Service Providers (LASPs) to harness, strengthen and sustain synergies to complement Government of Uganda#s efforts to enhance accessto justice. The Network has aStrategic Plan 2015-2020 with a vision of #a free and just society# and mission statement to #Provide a platform for effective networking and partnership to enhance legal aid service delivery and access to justice for the most vulnerable and marginalized people. The network has also been at the forefront with Justice Law and Order Sector (JLOS) in advocating for the National Legal Aid Policy (NLAP) and other pro-poor laws such as the Children#s Amendment Act; coordinationof provision of legal aid and access to justice, promotion of human rights and rule of law. In addition, LASPNET with other CSOs has worked to influence reforms in the land sector such as through convening policy makers to discuss land related policy andlegal framework. The role of LASPNET as the lead Applicantis overall coordination of the campaign against the Constitutional Amendment of Article 26, accountability for the funding and in addition has the following technical responsibility: To generateevidence on policy, legal and institutional frameworks affecting landrights for marginalised communities by conducting research on the situation analysis utilising scholars and practitioners as well as review of reports and other related information on land governance, Launch of the research, Provide legal rapid response to the CSOs and activists. AAIU is a Ugandan national development organisation, registered with the NGO Bureau, IT works in 45 Districts with 12 field offices grouped under fiveclusters namely Gulu, Nebbi, Katakwi, Kapchorwa and Pallisa. Its current Strategy is focused on `Strengthening Struggles for Social Justice 2018 -2022# which lays out a renewed commitment to strengthening civic engagement at all levels. This project willcontribute to strategic objective three of our strategy on strengthening citizens# actions to deepen democracy and hold the state, corporations and political leaders accountable. The role of AAU broadly is to foster collective action of marginalised communities and their agencies towards influencing pro-poor land reforms at local and national level by taking lead on the strategic engagement with Members of Parliament (MPs) on land governance and reforms at national and local level and organizing nationallevel dialogue on the land campaign issues. Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Uganda. PELUM UgandaNon Government Organisation membership (NGOs) with over 57 member strong network of like-minded operating organisations in over 98districts of Uganda, reaching approximately 3,000,000 smallholder farmers, 65% of whom are women. PELUM has been working in Uganda since 1995 to improve the livelihoods of small scale farmers and the sustainability of rural communities through the fosteringof ecological land use management. It works to promote agricultural systems that address food security, promote resilience to climate change, conserve agricultural biodiversity, enhance incomes of farmers, ensure environmental sustainability, and operatein an enabling policy environment. We also uniquely reach the regional, national and local levels with our interventions. PELUM Uganda is a national network that works through empowering and strengthening the capacities of the member organisationswhothen work directly with the small holder farmers. PELUM Uganda focuses on collaborative and evidence based advocacy to influence policy processes while working with other strategic partners land rights advocacy. The role of PELUM in the campaign is takingholding grassroots meetings with marginalised groups and social movements to raise awareness on land rights, conducting regional consultative meetings with the marginalised communities on key issues affecting enjoyment of their land rightsto inform MPengagement and taking lead on building capacity of selected personalities/journalists to agenda setting on issues on land. Working in a consortium with Action Aid <(>&<)> PELLUM, and LASPNET, the partners will scale up partnerships and collaborations with like-minded state and non-state stakeholders to strengthen linkages, efficiency and effective campaign against the constitutional amendment of Article 26. In their coordination role, the partners will utilize the bottom up approach advocacy to influencepolicy and practice change and also leverage membership to engage at grassroots level to enhance the campaign for pro-poor, effective and inclusive land reforms in Uganda to improve access to justice and protection of human rights for the poor, vulnerable andmarginalized.
Solidarity with African Environmental
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The project aims to support indigenous peoples and local communities and their grassroots organisations in up to seven countries inAfrica (Kenya, Tanzania, DRC, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda and Madagascar) in their efforts to resist and be protected against such threats as they defend their collective lands and territories of life. The actions and forms of support will be both defensive and preventative in nature and will respond directly to their self-determined needs and priorities, including, inter alia, awareness campaigns, trainings, digital and physical security measures, legal support, and communications platforms for regional and global advocacy. The project relates most closely to the impact themes of “improved access to resources and employment” and “open up spaces for political participation and to promote citizen engagement”. For the former, the project supports indigenous peoples and local communities to remain on their customary lands and territories and continue their self-determined ways oflife and livelihoods. For the latter, the project supports indigenous peoples and communities, especially those who are routinely marginalised and discriminated againstand face multiple intersectional inequalities, to advocate for legal and political recognition for their contributions to conservation and sustainable development and for their rights and collective responsibilities to defend their lands and territories. Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment, a not-for-profit organisation registered in South Africa and Kenya with hubs in Cape Town, Nairobi and Dakar, is the project applicant and passes the online eligibility test. The project will be undertaken by grassroots organisations in up to seven countries in Africa with focused support within the region from Natural Justice and local/regional and global support from the ICCA Consortium, a non-for-profit association registered in Switzerland with more than 175 Member organisations in 80 countries, including Natural Justice. The project is based on mini proposals prepared by grassroots organisations about specific situations and priority actions of indigenous peoples’ and communities’ territories of life and their defenders under threat. These include local and national plansfor the projected 2020 global mobilisation on land and environmental defenders (2-9December 2020), which provides an important and timely opportunity to advocate for their rights through local-to-global collective action. Their plans also outline priority actions to build momentum towards this global mobilisation and address emerging threats that may arise thereafter. Importantly, whereas many campaigns on environmental and human rights defenders focus solely on individuals, this project will include astrong focus on collective community and intersectional dimensions of defenders’ work. The proposed timeline is May 2021 - April 2022 and the requested budget is EUR 200,000. The project will also build on the African Environmental Defenders Fund implemented by Natural Justice in partnership with the International Land Coalition (ILC) and the ICCA Consortium, bringing in further synergies and opportunities for collective local-regional-global action. The goal is to minimise and manage the risks faced by Environmental and Land Rights Defenders in Africa by standing with them in solidarity through increased support to enhance their resilience in terms of protection and increased visibility of the struggle of Defenders.
United for Land Rights in East Africa
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Ujamaa-Community Resource Team (UCRT). Reference: V-1730-XG-IF-54 The project aims to give voice to highly marginalised indigenous communities so that they can become one united voice, campaigning for their land rights at the regional and international level. This initiative is the result of joint efforts of six community-rooted partners in four East African Countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Rwandaand Uganda. Land rights and access to resources continue to be a major issue for Ogiek, Batwa, Maasai and Benetindigenous communities. They suffer from lack of or limited access to resources and social services due to persisting forceful eviction from ancestral land and forests in the name of creating national parks or game reserves and other touristic facilities.Not only were these lands their ancestral homes, but also valuable resources for their livelihood and cultural traditions. Through this project affected marginalised indigenous communities lead their own paths to claim justice as one united voice at community level and up. Together they strengthen their capacities, learn from one another and become the actors of change at different levels. The outcomes of this project are: a strong local/inter-community capacity building, mobilisation efforts, synergistic regional and international action effectively challenging current human and land rights abuses.