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The MCC Threshold Program for land rights and access seeks to: 1) increase clarity and public understanding of property rights issues in order to inform the land policy and law reform process; 2) rebuild management and public and private surveying capacity to improve future land administration; and 3) increase efficiency in deed registration, and restore, and improve deed records and procedures.

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The programme aims to build the capacity of 75,000 poor households and their institutions, in the region of South-western Orissa, so that vulnerable groups, particularly women, can plan and manage their own development and negotiate improved entitlements. With regard to land and natural resource governance the key objectives of the programme include the promotion of a more efficient, equitable, self-managed and sustainable exploitation of natural resources at people's disposal and the development of non-farm enterprises for landless people. The programme supports the allocation of 0.10 acre of revenue land and titles for homestead to households and the recording of rights for all ST households up to 4 ha per household of forest land occupied by them under the Forest Rights Act.

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The programme fosters economic development and poverty reduction through improved land use, management and governance. The expected outcome is to facilitate the implementation of the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa via enhanced capacity of the AU-ECA-AfDB LPI, RECs, African governments, civil society and other stakeholders in land policy development as well as improved land information systems, increased networking, lesson learning and knowledge sharing among practitioners in land policy and increased monitoring of progress in land policy development and implementation.

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The Land Tenure Security Activity is part of the Irrigation and Water Resource Management Project. It provide support to identify and secure land rights, including existing rights and those of farmers benefiting from the project, and to mitigate conflicts that might arise from ambiguities regarding property rights, increasing land values, and increased demand for land. The project will assist in the development of community-based land allocation procedures to assure community participation and equitable allocation of land in the project area. The capacity of local institutions responsible for allocating and managing land rights will also be strengthened.

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FAO with funding of a sister project conducted two multi-stakeholder workshops in Mongolia, in October 2014 and November 2015. The workshops re-launched dialogue on tenure in the country, raised awareness on the VGGT and served to develop an action plan and assess progress made in the implementation of the VGGT. As a result, a National Multi-stakeholder Platform (advisory role) and a Working Group (coordination and conduct of activities) were established in support of national VGGT implementation. The groups serve as a foundation for collectively addressing a broad range of activities to implement the VGGT and are coordinated by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the People Centered Conservation in Mongolia (PCC), a local NGO. The VGGT Working Group was formalized through an Order of the State Secretary of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which collectively reviewed the translation of the VGGT and officially presented it during the second workshop in November 2015. Resulting from the momentum created through these activities, and the priority areas for action identified during the first workshop, the Government of Mongolia requested FAO technical support in work related to the drafting of a pasture land law and a forest tenure assessment. Project funding offered the opportunity to respond to both requests.

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The FC project plans to strengthen ten terrestrial and two marine reserves as well as an eco-corridor (Corredor Ecológico Sierra Madre Oriental - CESMO) by investing in infrastructure, equipment and institutional capacities.

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The project objective is to expand farm privatization to enable more rural people to become independent farmers and take management decisions in response to market forces, by providing them secure land use rights certificates distributed in a transparent and fair manner, and providing essential complementary support services. Project components include: (i)Farm Privatization and Land Registration (i.e. privatize 300 Collective and State Farms (CSFs) in a transparent and fair manner, issue at least 75,000 secure land use certificates, and establish a uniform, parcel-based system of registration of land use rights by further supporting the central office of the State Land Committee in Dushanbe, upgrading four land offices to Regional Land Registration Offices (RLROs), establishing three new RLROs, and training staff to provide the required services). The project will finance equipment for surveying, mapping, digitization software and hardware, and training.activities include farm restructuring, reform of cadastre, surveying, titling and registration; (ii)Farm Information and Irrigation Support, to provide rural citizens with detailed information on the privatization process, including the land law, rules and regulations governing the allocations, and individual’s rights to farmland. It will train project area rural people and also support nation-wide campaigns through mass media programs, and booklet preparation and distribution, with a systematic approach to reach youth and women; and (iii)Project Management and Policy Support, by supporting the capacity development within the President’s Economic Advisor’ Office to enable Tajikistan to address national policy issues associated with scaling up the Farm Privatization Support Project approach. The policy support will include the establishment of a small policy unit, as well as technical assistance and training, to address land administration, cotton, water management, and other policy issues related to farm privatization. The policy support will also address the special issues associated with the de facto land redistribution during the civil war.

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The objectives are the sustainable management of forests and fauna, the reduction of resource degradation and the decline of carbon emissions in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the ecological, economic and social functions of Cameroon's forest ecosystems.

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Access to land gets improved as well as productive and sustainable land use.

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Te Ministry of Land Affairs and Public Domain hosted a national workshop in Brazzaville during 5-7 October 2015 that brought together 64 people from various sectors to discuss the relevance of the Voluntary Guidelines. As forests cover about 70 percent of the country, the workshop was an opportunity to improve the understanding of linkages between tenure and forestry. The participants endorsed recommendations, including the establishment of a multi-stakeholder committee and the dissemination of the Voluntary Guidelines at decentralized levels. The actions proposed include integrating the Voluntary Guidelines in national processes by improving the normative framework, conducting reforms to improve tenure governance and launching a consultation process for the development of a national land use plan. The workshop was organized with the technical and financial support of FAO.

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The regional programme promotes a participative approach and aims to empower local communities to ensure full ownership of their development. It supports initiatives by local communities in respect to capacity development, natural resource management, agriculture, livestock and forestry production and marketing as well as handicrafts. Land management is supperted in order to provide sustainable access to land as well as mitigate possible conflicts over land.

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For Vietnam and Lao PDR, which contain large areas of degraded forests the issue of forest carbon stock enhancement should be an integral part of any National REDD+ Strategy. To date, in these countries, like in most others, the focus of REDD+ efforts has been on deforestation and to a lesser extent forest degradation. Accordingly, there is a matching deficiency in guidance material and national approaches to forest carbon stock enhancement as part of the REDD+ Strategy. This project aims to advance understanding of forest carbon stock enhancement as part of any future REDD+ Agreement through exploring the technical and economic feasibility of different forest carbon stock enhancement strategies in pilot sites, across Vietnam and Lao PDR. The sites will be chosen to reflect representative forest ecosystems of the region. The results and operational guidance will feed into the National REDD+ Strategies, which will ensure their replication across the respective countries. The project also aims to better understand the economic feasibility of different options and the incentives which need to be in place to engage local communities and improve their living conditions. To bring the results to a wider audience, publications, regional and international workshops and communications platforms will be used to disseminate the lessons to the many individuals working on REDD+ and interested in advancing understanding of Forest Carbon Stock Enhancement as part of REDD+. The project has earmarked support to ensure the results can feed into the international discourse on REDD+.