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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.

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Establishing a National Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure as a basis for the Portuguese UNCLOS claim to extend the continental shelf

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The goal of the project was to enhance family food security for subsistence 15,600 farmers households, raise family incomes and improve the living conditions and development participation of small farm households, including women, in Al-Dhala through better management of their resource base. Land and natural resource governance related interventions intended to provide support for rangeland management through surveys and mapping, demarcation and the establishment of Grazing Management Groups in 30 community associations.

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The programme drawn on the achievements of the District Development Support Programme, scaled up the decentralized development approach in 13 districts (Yumbe, Oyam, Apac, Busia, Bugiri, Mayuge, Luweero, Nakaseke, Masindi, Buliisa, Bundibugyo, Kyenjojo, Kamwenge) targeting landless people, small-scale farmers and fishers, and, in particular, women and youth among 100,000 households. To accelerate decentralization, the programme worked to support local economic development and strengthen the capacity of district governments to foster community development. Activities focus on community mobilization, agriculture and land management, and the development of access roads and water infrastructure. On land and natural resource governance, the programme supported the implementation of the Land Act in selected sub-counties, taking into account different tenure situations. It implemented the household mentoring approach giving a positive impact on co-spousal registration and women’s land access; and disseminated information through 52 awareness raising events on land tenure rights and training on land tenure and management policies. Through the programme, community-based management institutions were established; individual occupier land certificates were released and community and farm-based management plans for land, soil, water and vegetation conservation were developed.