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Displaying 2101 - 2110 of 6947IS-Academy on Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development (LANDAC)
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The “IS-academy” concept was initiated in 2005 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands in order to strengthen the role of knowledge and research in the fight against poverty and for sustainable development. In 2010, the IS-academy entitled: ‘Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development’ has been launched. This IS-academy on land governance will operate as a partnership between IDS (University of Utrecht - leading partner), Agriterra, Africa Study Centre (ASC) (Leiden), Chair Disasters Studies (CDS -Wageningen University), HIVOS, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT- Amsterdam), Triodos Facet and the Department for Sustainable Development of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DDE). These collaborating partners have a broad network of local counterparts (including universities, NGOs, producer organizations and other civil society organizations, financial institutions, ministries) and embassies with whom they collaborate in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The IS academy partners will invite their southern counterparts and other organisations based in the global south that are working on land governance to participate in activities of this IS-academy from the start. Land governance today is about managing diverging interests, competing claims, and processes of inclusion and exclusion. It is also about processes of institutional change, as the rules of access to land and the nature of property regimes change, covering a wide range of topics (tenure rights, land administration, land use, systems for dispute resolution, decentralisation). Land governance choices are influenced by paradigms related to agricultural development, private sector development, public administration, law, gender equity, indigenous rights, environmental governance, etc. A range of new, often opposing pressures and interests need to be reconciled. Land governance processes needs to strike a balance between protecting rights and promoting the most productive use of land; between economic progress, sustainable land use and social justice. Although new land policies seek to secure the rights of smallholders, these policies (or other policies) promote large-scale farming and productive use of land. Other issues that influence policies related to land are the aspirations of rural inhabitants to leave for urban areas, the implications for land rights and use of rapid urban expansion, processes of speculation in the peri-urban sphere, and ‘urbanization’. The guiding question of this IS academy is how to optimize the link between land governance, sustainable development and poverty alleviation; and thus how to deal with new pressure and competing claims, while maximizing opportunities for inclusive and equitable development. null Improved coordination, agenda setting, increased understanding, knowledge brokerage, improved exchange between stakeholders, capacity development; changes in perception)
F.a: Womens Land Rights and Rescuing of Traditional Agricultural Production Systems
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Mozambiques land rights legislation and policies recognize women's equal rights, but even so women received only 20 % of land-use permits issued in 2015. Equality is hindered by patriarchal culture, traditional norms that nurture power imbalance, womens po or awareness of their rights, as well as land and natural resource use pressure threatening peasant agriculture, such as large investments to produce commodities. Also in the Ribaue and Malema regions, peasants are under pressure to abandon the biodiverse agriculture aimed at local consumption and to switch to export crops such as soybean and cotton produced by industrial inputs (seeds, pesticides, fertilizers).
F.a: Achieving 5th schedule and Forest Land Rights for Tribes in Tamil Nadu
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The project aims to obtain title deed for about 9,750 forest dependent tribal families in Tamil Nadu, India under Forest Rights Act (Forest Rights Act 2006), as well as to start the new title deed search processes. As well strengthening of landless Primiti ve tribes in the plains with the financial assistance of Tribal Sub plan and Scheduled Caste Development Fund. In Tamil Nadu recognition of indigenous land rights and enforcement of the laws has been very slow process. However, in early 2016 the Supreme Co urt decision withdrawn the lower court's decision, which was halted the implementation of the Forest Rights Act in 2008 and this is very positive for the promotion of indigenous peoples' rights. The project will speed up the process for granting land title deeds, and is thus intended to protect the rights of thousands of families in the countries from which their livelihood depends. Strengthening land rights also has a positive impact on the environment as illegal land use is decreasing and the diversity of farming will be promoted. Beneficiaries on this project are tribal communities living in 17 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu. We also involve NGOs, movements, association which are supportive to the tribal rights and their development. http://vrdp.org
F.a: From conflict to opportunity: rights-based forest conservation in Kenya
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The project entails a rights based approach to conservation in which forest communities’ past and present land dispossession in the name of conservation are redressed and a new approach in which the same communities become recognised as having the rights and responsibilities that accompany their community ownership of their ancestral forest lands. Communities thereby become the pillars of long term sustainable use and protection of their natural resources with the support of conservation agencies. On nati onal level CIPDP together with its allies advocates within the legal reform process related to the forest dependent communities’ land rights. On local level the Ogiek and Sengwer capacity to participate in the decision-making concerning themselves is str engthened as well as drafting of community by-laws and ensuring their implementation. On international level CIPDP will present the Kenyan forest dependent communities’ context and objectives to the World Bank Inspection Panel and the Finnish Ministry fo r Foreign Affairs, as well as participate in the civil society activities to be organised in relation to the World Forestry Congress taking place in Durban in September as a part of wider collaboration with Siemenpuu.Chepkitale Indigenous People Developmen t Project (CIPDP) was founded by the Ogiek community of Chepkitale in 2000, and it was registered in 2003. CIPDP aims to safeguard the rights of the Ogiek community in Mt. Elgon, particularly the land and natural resource rights. Land rights are the founda tion of livelihood, culture and forests. CIPDP bases its advocacy work on the rights recognized in the Kenyan constitution of 2010.CIPDP has pushed the Mt. Elgon county governance to return the community lands under community ownership, developed the const ruction of community by-laws as well as trained community scouts who monitor that they are adhered to. Together with other forest dependent communities CIPDP has advocated for the community land right bill drafting process coordinated by the National Land Commission.On the national level CIPDP collaborates with other forest dependent communities for instance via the Forest Indigenous Peoples Network (FIPN), which it currently coordinates. On the international level one of CIPDP’s close allies is the Fores t Peoples Programme (FPP), and it is in the process of applying membership in the International Land Coalition (ILC), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the ICCA Consortium.
Support Indigenous forest protection in Borneo
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The Borneo Project works with indigenous villages to build community capacity to protect the rainforest. The upper Baram River Basin is the largest area of unprotected primary forest in Sarawak, containing dozens of species threatened with extinction. To protect the area from logging and palm oil interests, communities will survey flora and fauna, reforest logged areas, develop sustainable livelihoods, and continue advocating for land rights and forest protection.
Burundi: Research on the Effect of Land Tenure Registration on Land Disputes and Women's Land Rights
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1) To generate useful knowledge on the impact of community-based land tenure registration on land disputes and ways to enhance that impact. 2) To generate useful knowledge on how to preserve and strengthen women’s customary rights to land in land tenure registration.
Objectives
The project aimed to contribute to improved land tenure security and reduce the level of land disputes to allow for an intensification of agriculture.
Target Groups
The two municipalities of Mabanda and Vugizo in the province of Makamba.
FLC: HSHC - Further strengthening governance and forest rights through piloting of inclusive benefit sharing b
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Tanzania Agricultural Modernization Association (TAMA) intends to implement a one year Amka Mwanamke Campaign project that aims at empowering marginalized women to secure land rights in Muleba District. The project seeks to promote positive change in polic ies and customary laws those deprive women's rights to land ownership by 2018; to strengthen women's capacity to have voices and confidence to protect their rights to access own and have full control over land and other family resources; promote awareness and accountability among land owners local leaders and existing land councils on equitable distribution of land resources gender equity and equality by 2018. The need for this project is that In Tanzania laws that support women's rights to land ownership h ave been enacted but a great milestone- does not bring all women to the end - customary practices regarding marriage and inheritance continue to discriminate heavily against women. The government and other development partners have been carrying out their roles to facilitate implementation of land policy and laws to ensure women's ownership of land but such roles need other joint efforts to collaboratively increase awareness and empower more women to fight for their rights hence this project.The expected de velopment impact of this project is Women in Muleba District have access to and control over land. Project outcomes will be; increased capacity knowledge and skills among marginalized women on their rights to have access to and control over land; village a nd Ward Land Councils are accountable and ensure equitable distribution of land resources for women; increased access to information education and communication services and materials for women about land distribution registration and land rights. Main ben eficiaries in this project are women and the main implementing Agency is Tanzania Agricultural Modernization Association (TAMA). Why TAMA was chosen it's because the Land issue and particularly women's land rights is a sensitive issue which needs support s o that many women can enjoy their rights socially and economically as land is a basic resource from which human beings and almost other living creatures depend on for their living. For more information about TAMA click the following website: www.tama.or.tz .
F.a: Rights of Paliyan Adivasis for using and re-generating natural resources
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The Paliyan are Adivasi people living in the South Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and about 6000 families belong for those communities. They are traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, living on the forest and commercial world is strange for them. S till some of them are living on the forest, but most of them had to change their traditional way of living and move away from the forest. Their culture is changing rapidly and their traditional way of living is threatened. The Government of India doesn’t allow Paliyan people to collect forest products for their own use, but at the same time they allow commercial use of those same products. The Adivasi community people are very vulnerable and do not have any political voice for protect their community peop le. They are very badly oppressed, exploited and discriminated in all forms of social system. They are not realized and aware about this current social system. This project aims to empower the Paliyan community people to ensure and practice their tradition al, customary, democratic rights for dignity and sustainable life by ensuring their rights on forest land. It is also important to empower the Paliyar Adivasi community through mobilizing them into a movement for improving their social, economical and cult ural status to lead a self-esteemed, dignity and sustainability life. The Paliyan Adivasi community people are the beneficiaries. They are involved in all levels of implementation of the project. Humane Trust, MMS and ARUDES accomplish this project and all of them are members of CAFAT. www.humanetrust.org.in
F.a: Promoting Indigenous Peoples´ Land Rights in Nepal
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Due to state policies in Nepal the IPs are losing ownership and control of lands that resulted displacement and threat to continue their existence and identity. Non recognition of customary lands , land acquisition, lack of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), compensation to the affected, displacement, land dispossessions, full disclosure on projects, ignorance of religious, sacred site and pasture lands are some of the crucial issues pertaining to the land rights of IPs in Nepal. Often indigenous peop les and local communities have been confronting with the aforementioned issues in relation to lands caused by the development projects implemented by the government and private sectors. There are hundreds of hydropower development projects operated in the lands of IPs. The project is intended to enhance capacity of the IPs and local communities to defend their rights. Furthermore, this project also contributes in policy reformation with the engagement of the state and non-state actors, particularly private sectors. In the course of implementation of the project indigenous and local communities are supported in raising their human rights issues at the local level to international levels. For that LAHURNIP will organise capacity development activities and supp ort them to file cases to the courts, complaints to the international mechanisms such as the ILO, UN Special Rapporteurs, grievance mechanisms of the World Bank (Inspection Panel, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman-CAO) and Asian Development Banks to make th e State and private sectors accountable for protecting and respecting human rights of the indigenous and local communities. The project will also contribute to enhance partnership and coordination with the national and international human rights institute s working in the areas of human rights to support in defending the rights of indigenous and local communities. Apart from that the propose project also contribute to initiate facilitated dialogue with the projects and state to resolve dispute in amicable m anners. www.lahurnip.org
Conservation of the tiger in buffer zone of Melghat Tiger Reserve
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The purpose of this project is to conserve tigers in the buffer zone outside the protected area. The project objectives are as follows: (1) Monitor tigers in the project area by camera trap sampling, provide these results to the Forest Department, and support the Forest Department in line transect monitoring for prey species; (2) Strengthen wildlife protection, prevention of wildlife crime and improved law enforcement by building the capacity of Forest Department field staff with the assistance of expert trainers; (3) Reduce the pressures on forests for firewood and fodder, prevent and control forest fires, implement sustainable utilization practices and address community issues related to wildlife conservation, initiate a dialogue with the community to control livestock grazing on forest land and implement sustainable forest management practices, and mitigate human-wildlife conflict; and (4) Develop livelihood options for the local community, such as providing market links for bamboo products, and other non-timber forest products (NTFP) that utilize the forest in sustainable ways as opposed to overexploitation.