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Displaying 1561 - 1570 of 6947Asserting the land rights of the marginalized communities
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Sicherung und Institutionalisierung von Landrechten marginalisierter Gemeinschaften, Fortführung
Objectives
Sicherung und Institutionalisierung von Landrechten marginalisierter Gemeinschaften, Fortführung
Organizing the Urban Poor to Deal with Evictions and Gain Land Tenure Security, Philippines
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Organizing the Urban Poor to Deal with Evictions and Gain Land Tenure Security, Philippines
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Organizing the Urban Poor to Deal with Evictions and Gain Land Tenure Security, Philippines
Support of the UN Con-vention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
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1.5 billion people in more than 100 countries are affected by desertification and 42% of the world’s poor live in these areas. 12 million hectares of land are lost by desertification every year. The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) links sustainable land management to social and economic development to achieve its goal of combating desertification/land degradation and mitigating the effects of drought.
PROG2017-2021-DGD: Local communities utilize ecosystem services thanks to restoration of forest relics and exc
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The overall aim is to improve the livelihoods of rural communities in Northern Tanzania, by promoting and facilitating community-based forest management (SO1) and sustainable and climate-smart land use practices (agro-forestry) (SO2). We focus on one region: Arusha. In both specific objectives the interventions focus on three aspects: (1) capacity building courses of community promotors and staff of farmers associations in community forestry and sustainable agriculture (including women and youth particularly) ; (2) field actions in terms of participatory forest management and agroforestry (with special attention for water and soil conservation); (3) promotion of good practices by authorities and institutions. After five years, the farmers associations with which we work will be able to gain a triple win out of their natural capital: socio-economic advantages, resilience towards climate change and a richer biodiversity. This way they can break the vicious circle of land degradation and poverty that threatens rural communities in Tanzania and reduce their vulnerability for climate change.
Multinational - Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Programme in the Horn of Africa III
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The Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Program (DRSLP) is a long term Bank Program to build communities’ resilience to drought and Climate Change, improve their livelihood and promote regional integration in the Horn of Africa. The first project under the DRSLP was approved on 12 December 2012 for a total amount (loans and grants) of UA 83.12 million, while DRSLP II for a total amount of UA 74.98 million was approved on 26 November 2014. DRSLP II was prepared for UA 99.9 million covering Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan, but this would have resulted in front loading of the Regional Operations (RO) Resources. Bank Management addressed the issue by deferring UA 20.00 million of the project resources from the RO window from 2014 to 2015. These are the resources that have been packaged to Project III with an aim to scale up the Program interventions in Djibouti and Sudan. The Project will be implemented in a period of 5 years and its total cost is UA 24 million, of which UA 21.5 is paid by the Bank and the remaining being the governments’ counterpart contributions.
Objectives
The Project is expected to develop infrastructures for: i) water mobilization and management, and ii) agriculture and livestock production, health and marketing. It will also build the capacity of the populations and Governments of the participating countries to better cope with the effects of climate change, resources scarcity and conflicts related to resources utilization.
Target Groups
An estimated 20 million agro-pastoralists affected by drought and land degradation will directly benefit from the project. Other direct beneficiaries include the Governments of the region whose capacities will be strengthened to enhance drought resilience development, natural resources management and shared benefits, and regional integration. Women and youth will particularly benefit from the project as specific activities (including value addition) will be designed to enhance their economic and social integration/empowerment. Ultimately, these outcomes are expected to contribute to fostering peace and social resilience within the project communities and countries.
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4000002531-6004352 Demand-driven, support program that strengthens the development and implementation of multi-stakeholder interventions that directly contribute to structural results at scale in developing countries where Dutch embassies recognize that land governance issues hamper just, inclusive and sustainable development.
Support sustainable tourism through safeguarding, rehabilitation and promotion of the Agro-Cultural Landscape
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After 1967, and in particular over the past two decades, this area witnessed the progressive establishment of several new settlements and their connecting infrastructure (i.e. roads, public service outputs), leading to the ‘enclavisation’ of the Battir area and surrounding villages (Hussan, Beit Jala and Wadi Fukin) and a new complex mobility system resulting from the separation of roads. Also, the recently constructed Separation Barrier that surrounds the Bethlehem urban area further isolates the Western Bethlehem Villages from the West Bank, the city of Bethlehem and even from each other. This situation has triggered a socio-economic crisis in the area characterized by agricultural livelihood decline (due to increasing transaction costs, poor market access for local products and expropriation of agricultural land), as well as reduced freshwater availability. This project has the double purpose of promoting sustainable tourism in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Battir through the rehabilitation and protection of its unique cultural landscape with millenary terrasses and irrigation system and to strengthen the sustainable production of agro-ecological varieties typical of the area, even from an economic standpoint, thanks to the efficient use of the natural resources of the area.
Participatory Strategies to Promote Tenure Security and Sustainable Benefits for Community Lands in Kenya
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In Kenya, communities have traditionally faced significant challenges in protecting their land rights. “Community land” forms the largest category of land in Kenya, comprising 67% of all land. Yet, those lands were granted weak recognition in law, mostly for pastoral communities, or infrequently as non-formalized trust lands which, as the name indicates, wehere held in trust by local government. In either case, protections were often poorly respected. Community lands were mismanaged, degraded from poor planning, or illegally acquired by government or private actors. Kenya’s 2010 Constitution recognized community land as a distinct category, which has since been given effect through a new Community Land Act in 2016. These protections provide crucial new openings for communities to improve their tenure security and the benefits they derive from their lands. Significant questions remain however as to how the Community Land Act – to date largely untested – can operate effectively in practice. The project will seek to answer that question head-on. Through a participatory action research process, this project will test different strategies with communities, to understand how to ensure participatory, accountable and gender equitable land governance processes. Those processes are identified as key for ensuring tenure security and the full socio-economic rights for all community members under the Community Land Act. Case studies are planned in Isiolo County, with minority Turkana communities, to understand how the Act could be adapted to their well-established informal systems of community land governance, including recognition of women’s leadership roles, and with pastoralist Borana communities in Marsabit County, to explore how the Act can help protect their ancestral claims to community lands, which they still rely on largely for their livelihoods and Marsabit counties. Findings are expected to contribute to strengthening community land rights, making internal governance mechanisms more accountable and gender equitable, and improving land use planning of communal lands and resources. The Research team will showcase successful efforts at County and national-level, to strengthen efforts to implement the Community Land Act in Kenya. This project is part of a cohort of IDRC-supported projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, entitled Using Action Research to Improve Land Rights & Governance for Communities, Women & Vulnerable Groups. In parallel to this project, the organization Namati will be leading complementary research on the Community Land Act, in an effort to build a larger body of evidence and advocacy to ensure the Act’s successful implementation.
Participatory Strategies to Promote Tenure Security and Sustainable Benefits for Community Lands in Kenya
General
In Kenya, communities have traditionally faced significant challenges in protecting their land rights. “Community land” forms the largest category of land in Kenya, comprising 67% of all land. Yet, those lands were granted weak recognition in law, mostly for pastoral communities, or infrequently as non-formalized trust lands which, as the name indicates, wehere held in trust by local government. In either case, protections were often poorly respected. Community lands were mismanaged, degraded from poor planning, or illegally acquired by government or private actors. Kenya’s 2010 Constitution recognized community land as a distinct category, which has since been given effect through a new Community Land Act in 2016. These protections provide crucial new openings for communities to improve their tenure security and the benefits they derive from their lands. Significant questions remain however as to how the Community Land Act – to date largely untested – can operate effectively in practice. The project will seek to answer that question head-on. Through a participatory action research process, this project will test different strategies with communities, to understand how to ensure participatory, accountable and gender equitable land governance processes. Those processes are identified as key for ensuring tenure security and the full socio-economic rights for all community members under the Community Land Act. Case studies are planned in Isiolo County, with minority Turkana communities, to understand how the Act could be adapted to their well-established informal systems of community land governance, including recognition of women’s leadership roles, and with pastoralist Borana communities in Marsabit County, to explore how the Act can help protect their ancestral claims to community lands, which they still rely on largely for their livelihoods and Marsabit counties. Findings are expected to contribute to strengthening community land rights, making internal governance mechanisms more accountable and gender equitable, and improving land use planning of communal lands and resources. The Research team will showcase successful efforts at County and national-level, to strengthen efforts to implement the Community Land Act in Kenya. This project is part of a cohort of IDRC-supported projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, entitled Using Action Research to Improve Land Rights & Governance for Communities, Women & Vulnerable Groups. In parallel to this project, the organization Namati will be leading complementary research on the Community Land Act, in an effort to build a larger body of evidence and advocacy to ensure the Act’s successful implementation.
Improving the quality of sexual and gender-based violence services for Haitian women and girls
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Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against girls and women is a serious health and human rights concern in Haiti. Most women who suffer from this type of violence are among the most underserved and at-risk members of society. This means they lack access to essential supports and services, including avenues to seek justice. Accessing the range of necessary services is challenged by limited resources, economic insecurity, prevalent social norms and gender power imbalances, as well as a lack of political will. This project will work with communities, government and civil society organizations to provide integrated and improved services (health, social and legal) to victims of SGBV. The project will have a specific focus on adolescent girls because they are particularly vulnerable to SGBV. Building on lessons from three years of implementing an integrated multisectoral intervention to address SGBV in the Central Plateau and Lower Artibonite departments in Haiti, this project aims to document the prevalence of SGBV through high-quality data that will be made available for decision-makers. It also focuses on improving the timeliness, quality and accessibility of multisectoral SGBV supports by examining both supply-side (providers) and demand-side (users) perspectives on the quality of services. Finally, the project will assess the validity and effectiveness of multi-sectoral approaches to addressing SGBV. Gender and costing analyses are integrated across these objectives to enrich the utility and replicability of the findings. Implemented with the collaboration of Zanmi Lasante, or Partners in Health, a Haitian non-governmental organization providing health services to the poor, this project will work alongside the community, government representatives, Haitian academe and civil society to make concrete contributions to theory and practice on how to design and evaluate a multi-pronged and multi-sectoral SGBV intervention in Haiti. Capacity strengthening activities include targeted training, as well as support to Haitian-based graduate students embarking on studies related to this project. The project will work in close collaboration with another IDRC-supported project that focuses on strengthening the enabling environment for feminist research, gender studies and addressing issues of women’s rights in Haiti.