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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+.

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The FC contribution aims at the establishment of an efficient park management and at an economically as well as ecologically sustainable development of the Limpopo National Park (LNP). The objective is to create a stable environment for private investment in tourism.

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The programme is building on the positive experience of LMDP I and expanding the activities to increase livestock productivity in the regions of Issyk-Kul, Naryn Oblasts, Batken, Jalal-abad and Osh region of Osh to enhance climate resilience reflected in improved and equitable returns to livestock farmers, directly benefiting 304,000 households. On land and natural resource governance, the programme provides support for legal and regulatory reforms as well as sustainable pasture management. It aims to collect pasture user fees and support boundary demarcation. One of the efforts was the support of the development of the new Pasture Law which provides the legal basis for community-based pasture management. The project supports the preparation of Community Pasture Management Plans (CPMPs) by Pasture Committees (PCs) which set out a five-year plan of pasture management, improvement and investment. The aim is to help achieve maximum pasture utilization rates based on improved methods of pasture health assessment and monitoring.

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The project's main aim is to support private and decentralised forestry development in Kosovo and, for relevant issues, also at regional level. The Dutch organisation SNV will implement the programme by providing advisory services and working closely with the actors involved in private and decentralised forestry.

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To improve spatial plan processes and implementation to prevent deforestation and land degradation in Papua and West Papua provinces and help Indonesia deliver its emission reduction commitment through shifting development paradigm towards lower carbon pathways.

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The overall goal of the grant is to enable smallholder and marginalized farmers, especially women, to achieve secure and equitable access to land. The programme’s objectives are aligned with the pillars of the 2011-2015 ILC Strategic Framework: (i) influence the formulation and implementation of national land policy for the benefit of poor rural women and men; (ii) influence global and regional land-related processes and systems in favour of pro-poor land policies and governance; and (iii) build a leading knowledge network on land governance, contributing to substantive improvements in the monitoring, sharing and uptake of land-related knowledge.

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The project, built on the first phase, has the goal to improve the livelihood of vulnerable groups in a sustainable manner through improved management of their natural resource base. It aims to address the existing issues of inefficient government service mechanism in the livelihood sector and the absence of ideal development projects in the north-east region of India benefiting 23,000 households. Land related activities describe the bottom-up model as the project emphasizes on active community participation in the planning and implementation processes. The formation of community building organisations are a key to implementation - Natural Resource Management Groups and Self Help Groups, predominantly of women members, are formed in the project villages for this purpose.

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This project is intended to form part of the overall support programme specifically envisaged to provide targeted support for the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) at country level over a period of 30 months. Relevant components under this proposal focus on i) building awareness and supporting the development of multi-stakeholder national forums in selected countries. Component 1, which focuses on Liberia, Mongolia and Sierra Leone will focus on delivering country level workshops for a total of USD 300.000 to raise awareness on the Voluntary Guidelines, increasing the ability of governments and citizens to understand and administer tenure rights and the processes involved in providing access to and transferring such rights, supporting multi-stakeholder national forums and the development of plans for mainstreaming the Voluntary Guidelines in participating countries.

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The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to provide beneficiaries in selected municipalities with: (a) updated and integrated cadastral and property registry information; and (b) improved land administration services.

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Four main result areas: i) strengthened regional cooperation and integration, ii) strengthened water resources management, iii) strengthened water resources development, and iv) strengthened stakeholder engagement and coordination.