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UNDP Peru. Support to Phase II of the Peru, Norway, Germany DoI. Del 2
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Peru approved in 2019 the implementation plan for how to reduce deforestation under the political agreement with Norway. The project will help Peru execute the implementation plan. The project builds on a former project: PER-16/0002, and will advance titling of indigenous community lands, zoning unassigned forest land and help protect national parks.
GEF GOLD+ Bolivia: Enhancing the formalization and mercury reduction in artisanal and small-scale gold mining
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To reduce the use of mercury and increase incomes in the ASGM sector in Bolivia through a holistic, multisectoral integrated formalization approach, and increasing access to finance leading to the adoption of sustainable mercury-free technologies and access to traceable gold supply chains
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495. Mercury reduction is the project's main objective and key benefit for both the environment and human health. Considering that Bolivia is currently one of the main mercury-importing hubs where the use of this chemical is high and widespread, the contribution of the project in terms of global environmental benefits will be significant as well as the contribution to the country’s obligations under the Minamata Convention on Mercury. 496. In addition, the project will contribute to economic, social, and environmental benefits supporting sustainable development in the country. 497. Gold mining is an essential source of economic income and job opportunities, especially considering that most of the cooperative members and personnel linked to the ASGM activities come from rural areas. However, due to the lack of control on trade and exports, inefficient gold recovery technologies and reduced formalization of the operations, considerable revenues are not being ripped and benefitting the state, producers, and society in general. By strengthening national and local authorities' technical and institutional capacities, policies, regulations, and measures for greater control and monitoring of gold producing and trading activities could be implemented. This will reduce gold smuggling, tax evasion and illicit trade resulting in increased revenues at the central, regional, and municipal levels. 498. The project will promote a scenario in which the ASGM sector can increase its economic incident and impact at the local and national level for the thousands of families that depend primarily, secondarily, or temporarily on this activity. Additional economic gains will be achieved through more efficient technologies and consequent higher gold recovery and responsible supply chains that will ensure access to formal markets and better prices. The economic gains can then translate to social well-being and livelihood security. 499. Specific to women miners, the project will improve their access to finance, savings, and entrepreneurship, which will lead to economic empowerment that contributes to their well-being and their families. Gender mainstreaming activities will reduce gender inequalities among project beneficiaries. 500. The transition towards more efficient and/or cleaner recovery technologies and the introduction of better practices will improve the working and living conditions of the miners including women and vulnerable population, leading to a better health for all. Better mining practices will also improve the quality of water, and therefore host communities will have access to cleaner water. 501. The miners and communities will increase their skills and knowledge, leading to improved education in mining areas. Furthermore, promoting formalization processes will also allow miners to access social and financial services. Proper development of the ASGM sector can reduce conflicts over land use or linked to environmental pollution.502. Finally, and in line with the innovative approach followed by the GOLD+ programme, apart from mercury reduction, the project will allow for better land management and proper handling and disposal of mine tailings, which will benefit biodiversity and will make communities more resilient to climate change.
Improved water allocation and irrigation efficiency in Ziway-Shalla basin
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Based on a systematic approach, the project aims to address the key problems causing the decline in water quantity and quality in the Ziway-Shalla basin, namely: - Unchecked and inefficient use of irrigation water by smallholder horticultural farmers;- Lack of transparent and fair water allocation and sharing model;- Limited institutional framework and capacity for basin management;- Poor watershed management causing erosion and sedimentation.The partners simultaneously engage in four groups of activities. Work Package 2 focuses on supporting smallholder farmers to improve their productivity and water use efficiency. Demonstration fields will be established at 150 lead farmers at multiple locations; another 650 farmers will participate in the pilot. Through training and field days, partners aim to broadly demonstrate a business case for improved farming practices with efficient irrigation, reaching the majority of irrigation farmers in the area.The local public authority responsible for the basin management – RVLBA – will be supported to develop, in a participatory way, a Water Allocation Plan (WAP) based on water permits and tariffs, and ensure that this plan is endorsed by stakeholders. Water meters will be introduced at the pilot group by the end of the project (Work Package 3). Furthermore, Dutch expert partners will engage in institutional strengthening of RVLBA, aiming to enhance the organisation with the right infrastructure and capacities to manage the basin resources responsibly, based on real-time data and clear internal procedures, while covering its operational costs from water revenues (Work package 4).Finally, in Work package 5, the project will undertake a range of watershed interventions at the most critical sites, generating on-farm benefits for upland farmers while increasing their awareness with regard to unsustainable land management, subsequent erosion and long-term consequences of such practices.By the end of the project, results will be achieved in terms of decreased water abstraction and sedimentation, with improved income for smallholder farmers. Conditions will be in place for broad rollout of the Water Allocation Plan, including the introduction of water meters at irrigated farms, which is the precondition for sustainable management of the water resources in the area.
HO-The Hague Staff & Activity costs RRI
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Land rights Now was conceived as a campaign project with a clear time frame from 2016-2020. The three convening organizations recognize the important added value of Land Rights Now and have confirmed their interest in the campaign continuing for a secondphase 2021-2024. In 2020, the Advisory Board and co-conveners decided to strengthen the governance of LandRightsNow, with its Advisory Board – which currently consists of 5 renewed experts and activists, i.e., Joan Carling, Silas Siakor, Janene Yazzie, Peter Peacock and Miriam Miranda – formally becoming a decision-making body. This decision further strengthened LandRightsNow as a platform where right-holders steer. New members will bring in further outreach, political wisdom, and campaign strategy advice – possibly beyond land rights. The process of recruiting new members, and new co-conveners is still undergoing and will be a major part of coordination’s workfor the coming months. As LandRightsNow has been further strengthening its governance and concretely acting as a platform, in line with a principle of nothing about us, without us, it shows a good model for concrete way for INGOs to support movements. In this second phase LandRightsNow will focus on supporting national campaigns proposed by participants and will not deliver global mobilisation. Still, it will use its worldwide network to mobilise globally around specific national campaigns. Oxfam, the International Land Coalition, and the Rights and Resources Initiative have funded the (very small) LandRightsNow budget in the first phase, playing a major role in making actions happen – also through in-kind contribution. With the aim to further fulfil the idea of campaign to be open and collaborative, a decision has been taken to look for additional entities and organizations to strengthen this group of “co-conveners” who can bring either further resources, outreach, or campaign capacity (as movement, or media companies, or NGOs), to expandLandRightsNow. Delivering campaigns to advance Indigenous and Community Land Rights in 2021-2022 During the proposed period Land Rights Now will continue its core activity of providing global campaign support to national campaigns lead by Indigenous People and local communities, by responding to campaign opportunities and requests by participants. In this period, the LandRightsNow coordination with mostly focus on one or more global digital actions to advance the relevance of Indigenous and Community land rights, and by supporting 2 / 3 national campaigns across the globe. The campaigns will be decided by the new Board, upon proposal of the Coordinator and the co-conveners. Keeping amplify the work of co-conveners and participants The coordination of LandRightsNow will keep supporting the work of co-conveners in the area of Indigenous and community land rights, by: amplifying stories coming from the RRI, ILCand Oxfam, as well as other participant’s networks to reach a broader and different audience and raise the awareness on the link between secure land rights, climate change and food systems. issue action alerts around specific cases of land rights defenders at risk because of their peaceful actions or major global relevant policy opportunities. providing visibility to any update on the RRI‘baseline’, which also constitutes the underlying data justification for the LandRightsNow campaign. The new data may imply the need to develop an updated narrative from the one developed by co-conveners through the ‘Common Ground’ report. The LandRightsNowcoordination will support the process of including any revised context analysis into the second phase of LandRightsNow (e.g., the new dataof the Land Inequality research of the ILC). These actions will be done with the ‘supporter journey’ of LandRightsNowsupporters, making sure they are kept updated, they feel engaged and active, but not overwhelmed. It is also expected that – through LandRightsNow– co-conveners and other participants will continue to share information on the status of Indigenous and community lands worldwide,which in turn increase coherence of actions.
2022-25 DEV Uganda - CIDI
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Overall objective of the country programme 2022-25: Strengthen the resilience, social cohesion and living conditions of the populations in Uganda confronted with the effects of the multifaceted crisis by enhancing sustainable food production, increased income, and their capacity to act as change agents of own and community welfare. The long-term changes (outcomes) of the country engagement 2022-2025: 1. Farmer cooperatives, local partners and national advocacy platforms are voicing interests of small-scale farmers, refugees, and youths on issues of relevance to them, including climate change adaptation, land rights and access of women and refugees, youth employment and easy market certification of value-added produce 2. Small-scale farmers have increased sustainable production and sale of produce through organised farming and climate smart techniques 3. Increased access and use of innovative green technology solutions reducing deforestation and wood fuel dependence among refugee, host, and vulnerable households 4. Youth and women are empowered and have gained increased influence through leadership positions, school peace clubs, the national youth-led advocacy platform (NYAP) and promotion of gender equity 5. All direct local partners (incl. at diocesan level) comply with CIMS and /or CHS 6. Local partners take lead and have increased influence at the international sphere
Institute for Law and Environmental Governance - Stregthening Local Communities Participation in Forest Govern
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The Constitution presents considerable challenges for the forest sector. The most critical issue is how forest management obligations will be shared between the national and county governments. At the county level counties are required to be largely self-s ustaining. This demand is already making communities and county leaders lay strong claims over natural resources which they target as source of revenue. Many new issues with important links to local forest governance are emerging in the global arena. There are emerging trends towards large land acquisitions by foreign firms for biofuel and agriculture. There is a lot of misconception misinformation and concern about these issues at national and local level. Most local communities do not understand what thes e means for their livelihoods and the sustainability of their forest resources.This project is premised on the need to empower local communities to actively and effectively participate in the implementation of Kenya?s Constitution 2010. It aims at empoweri ng communities to realize the host of constitutional provisions and rights on environment and natural resources.Project Objective: - to build capacity of local communities to participate effectively in forest governance by strengthening community institut ions (CFAs and CFA networks)- support implementation of the Constitution at county level by fostering participatory forest governance influencing the development of county legislation on forest management benefit sharing and forest concessions
Promoting sustainable bush-processing value chains in Namibia
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Bush encroachment is a serious problem in Namibia, it hampers agricultural productivity and therewith threatens the livelihood of the local population. Currently, 26-30 million hectares of Namibian rangeland are affected by high densities of Acacia bush that grows at the expense of grass. Bush encroachment occurs in many arid regions and is attributed to factors such as the suppression of veld fires, the absence of browsers, overgrazing and poor management of livestock. Furthermore, the land degradation in the form of bush encroachment reduces the carrying capacity for livestock.
Strengthening peoples organisations and local leadership for civic participation and legal defense in land con
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Unterstützung von Basisorganisationen und lokalen Führungskräften für die friedliche Lösung territorialer Konflikte
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Unterstützung von Basisorganisationen und lokalen Führungskräften für die friedliche Lösung territorialer Konflikte
Empowering indigenous peoples to exercise their rights, self-determination and sustainable development of thei
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Stärkung Indigener zur Wahrnehmung ihrer Rechte, Selbstbestimmung und nachhaltigen Entwicklung ihrer Territorien
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Die Zielgruppen werden in ihren Landrechten, ihrem Recht auf Nahrung, ihrer Selbstbestimmung und ihrer Organisationsentwicklung gestärkt. Dies ist insbesondere im Kontext der Zuspitzung von Landkonflikten und gewaltsamer Vertreibung durch Akteure der Agarindusstrie sowie den Auswirkungen der Klimakrise von zentraler Bedeutung. Durch die Stärkung indigener Führungskräfte und Eigenorganisationen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Frauen soll die Eigenverantwortung für die Prozesse der nachhaltigen Entwicklung zunehmend von den indigenen selbst übernommen werden.
Using action research to improve land rights and governance in Africa – Cohort inception support
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This project will support the launch of a new cohort of projects in Africa entitled “Using Action Research to Improve Land Rights and Governance for Communities, Women and Vulnerable Groups”. This new research builds on findings from a first phase of IDRC-supported research, “Building Accountability around Large Scale Land Acquisitions in sub-Saharan Africa”. This body of work addresses the growing pressures on rural lands and communities’ land rights and access to land resulting from increased investments in agricultural lands in developing countries in recent years. For this round of projects, IDRC launched a targeted call for proposals in May 2017. Four proposals were selected for support that together will cover Cameroon, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. In complementary ways, the new three-year research projects aim to identify what works and what can be scaled up to improve land rights and governance for communities, women, and vulnerable groups in sub-Saharan Africa. An additional cluster of projects is anticipated for support in early 2018, drawing from the pool of proposals submitted through the call. This cohort inception support project aims to expand the reach and impact of those projects. It will support a joint inception workshop that will bring together the four research teams’ leads, candidates for the second cluster of projects, and additional experts. Teams will discuss common questions of research and methodology, and will plan joint activities across projects, such as a shared communication strategy. This approach builds on lessons learned on supporting cohorts, particularly the need to plan cross-project activities from the outset. Additional funds are also included for publication of a background report prepared earlier in 2017, “Commercial investments, pressures on land and legal empowerment in low and middle-income countries”, that informed the design of this body of research. Communications support will also be included for this body of work.