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The goal of the project is to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty in the Upper Tana River catchment through increased sustainable food production and incomes for 205,000 poor rural households, as well as sustainable management of natural resources. On land and natural resource governance, the project will develop and implement community action plans for livelihood improvement and sustainable NRM, it will provide support to Water-Resource Users’ Associations (WRUAs) to help them fulfil their responsibilities to protect and manage water resources, resolve water use conflicts and improve the availability/quality of water. It will also support the establishment of Community Forest Associations and support them in entering into co-management arrangements with forestry authorities for various forest reserve areas and it will support the use of participatory planning and mapping processes and develop the GIS and mapping capacity of 6 Counties.

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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 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.

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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 project objective is to ensure that there is a reliable, transparent and efficient real estate registration system supporting the real property markets and suitable systems for the management and use of State-owned immovable property. To achieve this, the project will: 1) improve the physical condition of the registration office premises and installation of automated systems and on-line services to provide more effective and efficient customer services in the registration of property rights (Activities include:(i) the development of new buildings and renovation of existing buildings; (ii)the supply of office equipment, furniture and computer systems; (iii) the development of a unified registration and cadastre system providing improved service provision, archiving and on-line access to notaries and other professionals; (iv) providing a complete real estate cadastre and building inventory; (v) improvement in the property valuation system; (vi) improving public awareness; (vii) improving the ongoing sustainability of the registration services through strategic and business planning; and (viii) pilot activities to analyze the scope and inventory illegal and unplanned development and the preparation of a Formalization Strategy for resolving these issues); 2) support improvements in the management of state property (Activities include: (i) improving the administrative systems and service delivery; and (ii) improving the automated State Property Management System); 3) provide the basic geodetic, mapping and cadastral data for the automated property registration and state property management systems (Activities include: (i) Establishing a series of 30-40 Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) to be used for current and future survey work in all disciplines; (ii) the production of a complete set of digital orthophotomaps through new satellite and aerial imagery; (iii)development of land parcel maps; and (iv) improving the ongoing sustainability of these services through strategic and business planning); and 4) coordinate joint activities relating to: (i) training; (ii) developing a joint information technology/ information management strategy; and (iii)policy and legislative development.

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(The funding amount only reflects the support from Finland= all of Finland's funding, as, if widely understood, it could be included in the support of land tenure) The major focus – and added value - of the Lao PDR Forest Investment Plan (Lao FIP) is to promote participatory sustainable forest management (PSFM) of all types of forests, with a major emphasis on promoting the capacities of villagers and other grassroots managers. SUFORD-SU is the fourth in a series of projects promoting participatory sustainable forest management. The current project covers 13 provinces, 41 of the country’s 51 PFAs, comprising 2.3 million ha and more than 1000 villages. The current project is also piloting an approach to forest landscape management in four provinces, and piloting village forestry in at least 30 villages in this area. It is supporting work on payment for environmental services (PES) and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Forest and wildlife law enforcement activities continued to be supported, as well as work on key relevant policy, legislative, and regulatory issues. The project also disseminates information on project issues, and aims to raise awareness regarding climate change and REDD+. SUFORD-SU is not only developing its own monitoring and evaluation systems for the project, but working to develop and strengthen government monitoring, reporting, evaluation, and analysis capabilities. A PFA Monitoring System (PFAMS) will be built, to complement other ongoing work such as the National Forest Information System (NFIS) under development.

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Increased capacity among policymakers in Amazonia to mobilise large-scale public/private funding through innovative financing mechanisms that enable the conservation and sustainable use of forests as natural capital (III), adaptation to climate change (II) & climate friendly economic development (I).

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The purpose of the project is to enhance food and nutrition security and incomes among smallholder producer families of 10,355 households through diversified agricultural production and market linkages in the rain-fed Middleveld and Lowveld areas of the Lubombo and Shiselweni regions. On land and natural resource governance, the Chief's Letter of Consent will be used as means to transform communal grazing land in land for commercial agriculture and as a means to give specific groups of smallholders the usufruct of such land in return for guarantees on sustainable use. In parallel to the CDC-led appraisals, the Project will prepare GIS base maps recording land use and land resources from available remote sensing information and other existing secondary sources.

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The programme goal is to foster market-driven development of Kenya's informal dairy industry, working with poor smallholder dairy producers and traders to strengthen their capacity to respond to market opportunities. It builds understanding of the market and technical knowledge of production processes, and improves organizational and enterprise skills. Dairy production improves household nutrition and provides extra income. The programme will benefit 24,000 households in the areas of Bungoma, Trans Nzoia, Kakamega, Uasin Gishu, Nandi, Nakuru, Nyamira, Kisii and Bomet. On land and natural resource governance, the programme provides support for community mobilization and capacity building for a participatory analysis and mapping with dairy groups and land access for the groups and their communities. These activities also include documenting and mapping of existing land ownership and using practices and records and sharing experiences with others.

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Communication and cooperation between actors for improving participation in governance and natural resources; Access to legal advise on land rights; knowledge and capacity of government agencies in land- and natural resource management

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PROSPER introduces, operationalizes and refines appropriate models for community management of forest resources for local self-governance and enterprise development.

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The general objective of the programme is to ameliorate the governance of tenure in the Amazonia. Specifically, the project aims to accelerate the process of allocation and registration of public lands in the targeted areas, in the framework of the initiative "Terra Legal". It targets more than 8000 families occupying public land who will be supported for the regularization of their parcels.