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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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The grant aims to enable smallholder and marginalized farmers, especially women to achieve secure and equitable access to land with IFAD support to the implementation of VGGT. The grant aligns with IFAD's first strategic Objective of "a natural resource and economic asset base for poor rural women and men that is more resilient to climate change, environmental degradation and market transformation. It contributes to three objectives of the grant policy of IFAD: (i) strengthen partners' institutional and policy capacities; (ii) enhance advocacy and policy engagement; and (iii) generate and share knowledge for development impact.

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to produce terrain models and line maps for area of Moldova most at risk for floods, as the basis for emergency preparedness

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This grant, which complements the Artisanal Fisheries Promotion Project (ProPESCA) aims to improve the livelihoods of artisanal fishing communities along the whole coastline of Mozambique by strengthening their land tenure security and the management of natural resources. This will be achieved through the promotion of activities and approaches for securing land and natural resource rights, the promotion of awareness, advocacy and policy dialogue on land and natural resource tenure issues by, and on behalf of, the target group, strengthening the capacity of partner institutions, and the promotion of lesson learning, knowledge management and dissemination of information on land and natural resource tenure security issues among stakeholders within Eastern and Southern Africa, other regions in Africa and globally. The activities include the recognition of community-based NRM structures, community land use planning and community land delimitation, forestry co-management and the recognition of community land and natural resource use management plans; the documentation and mapping of natural resource use and the registration of communities’ rights; the documentation of local natural resource management practices and conflict management and resolution.

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Capacity building in connection with the establishment of an address register and development of related procedures for data collection and maintenance.

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The goal of the project was to improve incomes, food security and living conditions for 30,000 poor rural households in Aguié Department and the neighbouring communes of Saé Saboua and Giratawa. To that end, the project has introduced cereal and food banks run by local women to help ensure availability of food year-round. It also supported the adoption of new technologies to raise the productivity of staple crops. Land and natural resource governance related interventions provided training for local youth in the use of GPS systems, and support for mapping and demarcation exercises, land market analysis and the analysis of the legislative framework. All small properties were delimited and represented on a community map updated on a regularly basis. and maintained by the local representatives who manage the communal and individual land registers. Through the project's support 1270 land titles (2600 ha) were issued to 880 small farmers (of which 15% women), six local land commissions and three communal committees were set up and equipped and transhumance corridors have been delineated. Workshops with the religious authorities at village level address the issue of access to land by women and the question of women's rights under Islamic law.

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A workshop in Guatemala, entitled “Taller Mesoamericano sobre Gestión Territorial y el uso de Herramientas Tecnológicas en Tierras Comunales Indígenas y Campesinas”, facilitated the exchange of experiences on the management of tenure rights on natural resources and territories by indigenous communities in different countries in Central America. Different practical examples of mapping of communal land rights were shared, including success stories and challenges, and training on the use of Open Tenure was provided, using the instrument as an innovative catalyser of discussion around the management of indigenous peoples’ lands rights. The participants represented territorial indigenous organizations, indigenous leaders from different communities, network of indigenous and farmers’ communities, CSOs and universities, and representatives from government institutions.

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Improved decentralized management and better securing property for forest and pasture in target communes;2 improving income generating strategies and opportunities for forest and pasture;3 strenghtening the institutional policy and legal framework for forestry;4 Improving the manamgnet of the Nations communal forest and pasture areas through enahanced capacity and responsiveness of Local Government..

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The project aims to improve the living conditions and boost the incomes of 40,000 rural households in the area of Neer Tamba by assisting them in developing and strengthening their autonomy and ability to play an increasingly proactive role in creating a sustainable economic and social fabric. On land and natural resource governance, the project aims to strengthen land tenure security, especially for women, youth and rural landless. Land tenure security has been given critical importance in the project area, thus related interventions cut across all of the project's components. The strategy with regard to this is based on a general principle of securing user rights among the target populations, and a proactive approach to facilitating access to the developed plots. To this extent the project will contribute to the dissemination of legal and administrative texts among the key actors of the project. Further the project will support the establishment of village committees dealing with land tenure issues, in target villages. The project will organize trainings of young professionals in this area to overcome the obstacle for the construction and maintenance of facilities to secure access to land.

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The project aims to increase stakeholders knowledge on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) and promote the development, implementation and monitoring of policies, laws and practices that improve the governance of tenure. Responsible governance of tenure influence the way in which people, communities and others gain access to land, fisheries and forests. The livelihoods of people are based on secure and equitable access to and control over these resources. The project aims to promote responsible practices that will improve food security and the sustainable management of natural resources. Two workshops have been organized - one in Niger (28-30 January 2014) and one in Senegal (12-14 March 2014). These workshops have been the occasion to raise awareness on the VGGT and to participatorily realize a first assessment of the governance of tenure in the country (tacking stock study of the 20 years of existence of the Code Rural in Niger and results of the LGAF in Senegal). The workshops have been a unique occasion to gather land governance stakeholders who rarely met. Presentations on initiatives by civil society, farmers’organizations and governments enabled synergies to be found. In addition, the workshops have helped to launch partnerships (Code Rural in Niger and IPAR in Senegal) necessary to drive the process of dialogue that will be continued with the three up-coming workshops in each country under Italian funds.