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Displaying 1341 - 1350 of 6947Support to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme in the Caribbean
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UNOPS supports the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme that helps protect poor, remote villages from the serious effects of climate change and environmental degradation. In an effort to support community-led initiatives, UNOPS efficiently channels direct grants to help communities cope with climate change, conserve biodiversity, protect international waters, reduce the impact of persistent organic pollutants, prevent land degradation, and adopt sustainable forest management practices.
FAO efforts in Afghanistan, 2021
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Contributing to meeting the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s objectives of the Country Programming Framework (CPF 2017-2021). This un-earmarked funding contributes towards meeting the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s objectives of the Country Programming Framework 2017-2021 that intends to improve capacity for policy planning, land reform, decentralization, management of common natural resource; foster expansion of irrigation and field water management; and support intensive agriculture for commercialization, value chains development, and job creation. Due to its nature as a response to a humanitarian appeal operational results are general and highly aggregated and the MFA contribution is thus reflected in the overall results reporting by the partner. Please refer to the hyperlink below. https://www.fao.org/publications/en/
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Contributing to meeting the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s objectives of the Country Programming Framework (CPF 2017-2021).
GEF 7 (2018-2021)
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The Danish contribution to the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) 7th replenishment amounts to 450 million DKK out of a total replenishment of 4.1 billion USD. making Denmark the 11th largest donor to GEF for this replenishment. GEF is the financial mechanism for a number of key international environmental conventions and agreements (climate change, international Waters, land degradation, ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants, sustainable forest management and the convention on Mercury). GEF provides grants and concessional Funding to cover the incremental or additional costs Associated with transforming a projekt with national benefits into one with global environmental benefits thereby promoting environmental sustainable development. As of today GEF is a global partnership among 183 countries, international institutions, NGOs and the private sector. The GEF leadership is keen to place GEF prominently in the new environmental and Financial landscape including the process on developing sustainable development goals. The activities under GEF is currently implemented by 18 international institutions comprising multilateral banks, major UN organisations plus international non-governmental organizations.
GEF 6 Core Funding 2014-2017
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The Danish contribution to the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) 6th replenishment amounts to 435 million DKK out of a total replenishment of 4.2 billion USD. Denmark is the 13th largest donor to GEF. GEF is the financial mechanism for a number of key international environmental conventions and agreements (climate change, international Waters, land degradation, ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants, sustainable forest management and the convention on Mercury). GEF privdes grants and concessional Funding to cover the incremental or additional costs Associated with transforming a projekt with national benefits into one with global environmental benefits thereby promoting environmental sustainable development. As of today GEF is a global partnership among 183 countries, international institutions, NGOøs and the private sector. The GEF leadership is keen to place GEF prominently in the new environmental and Financial landscape including the process on developing sustainable development goals. For the same reason the GEF Council has adopted the new GEF 2020 strategy with a focus on the drivers behind environmental degradations and on synergies between activities under various conventions and agreements. The activities under GEF is currently implemented by 15 international institutions comprising multilateral banks, major UN organisations plus international non-governmental organizations.
Enhancing the resilience of alternative food systems in informal settings in Latin America and the Caribbean t
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In Latin America and the Caribbean, as elsewhere, low-income and marginalized communities have seen their vulnerability exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. They are experiencing greater food insecurity and are suffering more from the cascading impacts of natural hazards and climate change. Yet every day, they produce informal, bottom-up solutions to these problems, transforming public spaces, housing, and urban conditions at the margins of the authorities’ influences and plans. These bottom-up solutions are still not fully understood, and little is known about how conditions of urban informality — where infrastructure and services are scarce, land tenure is disputed, governance structures are fragile, and housing conditions are poor — influence the emergence, sustainability, and scaling of alternative food systems. These are food systems that are local, healthy, equitable, inclusive, and culturally relevant. This project seeks to explore: (a) how bottom-up informal solutions interact with food systems and contribute to making them more resilient to shocks such as climate change and pandemics; (b) how urban systems such as infrastructure and housing in informal settlements influence the resilience and vulnerability of alternative food systems and, by doing so, how they influence people’s capacity to deal with climate change impacts; and (c) the conditions for scaling impact, transferring results, and overcoming implementation barriers towards resilient alternative food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The aim is to use such knowledge to support on-the-ground, locally specific efforts to strengthen alternative food systems, as well as to generate and practice lessons related to the food system, with a view to reducing vulnerabilities and building resilience. The project will involve research, training, and implementation activities in four countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, and Cuba. It will also include networking and sharing of activities among the four countries as well as other countries of the Dry Corridor of Central America. It will produce new knowledge and yield policy changes through innovative explorations that combine empirical research, action research, and design. These activities will help enhance local capacity and interaction among community leaders, public officials, and academic partners, and better equip communities and institutions to address the challenges of food insecurity and natural hazards in the coming years.
African Land Rights Workshop and International Land Coalition collaboration
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This project supported a workshop in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, that brought a group of five IDRC-funded projects together under a cohort of projects in Africa entitled “Using action research to improve land rights and governance for communities, women, and vulnerable groups”. The projects are at their mid-point and the workshop aimed to share findings and identify opportunities for joint dissemination of findings in the remaining period of project activities. The partners are from Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, and Sierra Leone. To amplify these efforts, the workshop was planned as part of the International Land Commission’s regional forum in Africa and immediately preceded the African Land Policy Centre’s conference, a joint initiative of the African Union Commission, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and the African Development Bank.
Strengthening Indigenous Women’s Participation in Seeking Accountability in Land Conflicts in Papua, Indonesia
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From 2013-2017, Asia Justice and Rights and the Papuan Women’s Working Group, a network of local organizations, conducted participatory action research involving 170 indigenous Papuan women to document the experiences of violence against indigenous women. One of the key findings was the lack of security related to tenure for natural resources and traditional lands, which impedes women’s empowerment and makes indigenous women vulnerable to continued violence and discrimination. A critical issue raised by Papuan women was weakening land rights and shrinking access to natural resources. Of the women involved in the research, 50% had experienced loss to their land, gardens, or forest due to land use change and government policy, or as an impact of a violent conflict. Building on the research findings, this project will develop the capacity of indigenous Papuan women in understanding their status of rights over land and natural resources. Post-conflict, Papua was granted special autonomy status in 2001, with provisions to ensure greater political and economic power to the indigenous Papuans. However, local people, especially women, have limited knowledge of mechanisms that were set up to include local voices in policymaking. This work carries the promise of systematically building capacity by developing a set of tools to assist Papuans, particularly women, to understand and assess the relevant challenges, develop appropriate strategies, and link to counterparts and institutions that can assist them. There is a clear need and demand for this work and a clear connection with national policy debates.
Strengthening Inclusion, Participation, and Good Governance using Kenya's Community Land Act
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Abstract: In the context of rising global demand for land and natural resources, there is an urgent need to strengthen community land tenure security. In Kenya, a new window of opportunity emerged to protect community land rights in 2016 when the government passed the Community Land Act. However, to date the provisions of that Act remain largely untested. Against that backdrop, this action research project will test approaches to scale-up community land protection efforts. Namati’s Community Land Protection Program deploys paralegals to support communities to use national land laws to protect their land and resources. This approach combines the legal and technical efforts to map and document lands, with community-level governance efforts to resolve land conflicts, ensure equity with the community, and promote accountable and participatory management. The project includes a specific focus on protections for women and minority populations, and will test approaches to enhancing their participation in decision-making over communal land and during negotiations with investors. A mix of research methods will investigate the following questions: (i) What are the institutional and policy barriers to securing community land tenure? (ii) How can land registration processes and community-level rules protect women and minorities against exclusion and disenfranchisement? Findings are expected to strengthen community land rights and governance. The research team will draw on evidence from its grassroots work to strengthen efforts to implement the Community Land Act at the county and national levels. A similar project is currently underway in Sierra Leone that will allow the team to generate comparative learning on these research questions. 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 Land Development Governance Institute 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.
Sustainable Low Carbon Development in Colombia's Orinoquia Region
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The Project objective is to promote representation of Orinoquia wetlands and savanna lands in land-use planning instruments and biodiversity connectivity in selected project areas.
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Namibia Integrated Landscape Approach for Enhancing Livelihoods and Environmental Governance to Eradicate Pove
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To promote an integrated landscape management approach in key agricultural and forest landscapes, reducing poverty through sustainable nature-based livelihoods, protecting and restoring forests as carbon sinks, and promoting Land Degradation Neutrality
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.