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Displaying 2011 - 2020 of 6947JRAS/GROW Program Development OAU-SLK
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JRAS Theme 1 Strategy was developed for the period 2013-2015 with the input from South Asia Economic Justice Working Group (SAEJWG)and the Country Leadership Teams (CLTs). Oxfam South Asia Programme Governance Group (PGG) approved the Strategy in October 2012. The priority within JRAS Theme 1 is for the work that adds value in a demonstrable way to the existing country level work, global strategies, and increases coherence between Affiliates# work at regional level through linking and learning amongst Oxfams, partners and allies. The work around approved strategy is a regional window of opportunity for influencing key policies related with climate change, land right and food security at the country and regional levels. The goal of JRAS Theme 1 is:#Men and women in South Asia are enjoying enough nutritious food and are exercising their right to access, own and control the land, water and forest resources important for their food and livelihood security.# In order to achieve the goal, various strategies have been used throughout the Programme. As per Programme Trajectory, we focused more on research and alliance building in the first two years; and more on advocacy, popular mobilisation and linking and learning the last years. At Oxfam Novib, the programme was funded by Dutch government funds (MFS) while both Oxfam OGB Regional Center and Oxfam Australia supported financially the overhead costs of the Coordinator. Oxfam Novib is embarking on a process of Programme Development with the final aim ofexternal fundraising for national and regional GROW work. The South Asia regional programme costs were mainly paid by the Dutch government (MFS) funds, which will be no longer available from next year. In the view of this and with the support of ONL HQ,aprogramme development process has been started in January 2014 aimed to prepare further proposals for fundraising. The proposals are meant to support better existing country level GROW work and future plans in the themes of (1) climate change, (2) right tofood and (3) land rights and to be linked to the current JRAS Theme 1 programme in order to ensure smooth transition for a possible next phase. This process has been shared and agreed with the South Asia Economic Justice Working Group during the annual Face to face planning meeting (7-8 March 2015 Dhaka). The programme development process will include partnership assessment, donor engagement and management, proposal development within Thematic Working Groups, research and data collection, some small initial projects with identified partners, etc. As it is labour intensive process we would suggest engaging extra capacity (for example, a consultant, etc) who will support the Grow CTs in this work (preferably a seconded staff from an identified partner whowill be partnering in this work).
Burundi - Agriculture and Livestock Value Chains Sustainable Development Support Project (PADCAE-B)
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The Agriculture and Livestock Value Chains Development Support Project in Burundi (PADCAE-B) is in line with the PND (2018- 2027) which aims to promote intensive and modernised agriculture to ensure food security and foster market agriculture. The project is in line with the ADF-15 operational and strategic priorities which aim to create a conducive environment for inclusive and sustainable transformation, decent jobs and stronger resilience. It will be implemented in Gitega, Kirundo and Muyinga Provinces in northern Burundi, with a total population estimated at 2,956,784 people (24% of the national population), a land area of 1,671 ha (or 18% of the national total) and a population density of 553 inhab/km². Project interventions will focus on a limited number of value chains (rice, maize, goats, pigs and fish) identified by beneficiaries, articulated around 4 components: (i) land development, integrated land management, land restoration and security; (ii) development of climate-resilient agriculture and support for nutrition (iii) institutional, capacity building and agricultural entrepreneurship support; and (iv) project management and coordination. PADCAE-B will be implemented over a period of 5 years (2020-2025) for a total cost of UA 16.39 million. When implemented, the project will help to fight food and nutrition insecurity, promote youth employment and gender, boost agricultural output through resilient and sustainable agriculture, encourage the structuring, organization and capacity and building of cooperatives, private sector stakeholders and operational State structures, and improve land management.
Objectives
The sector objective is to help to sustainably strengthen food and nutrition security and build the resilience of the rural populations of Ngozi, Kirundo and Muyinga Provinces. The specific objectives are: (i) land development, integrated land management, land restoration and security, (ii) development of climate-resilient agriculture and livestock value chains and support to nutrition and (iii) institutional, capacity building and agricultural entrepreneurship support.
Target Groups
The project area (PA) covers Kirundo, Muyinga and Ngozi Provinces situated in northern Burundi with a total estimated population of 2,743,366 people, making 24% of the national population, and covering a land area of 1,671 ha (or 18% of the total land area of the country). The project has several beneficiaries at the central and decentralised levels. It will benefit directly 138,060 people, 56% of them women, and indirectly all 2,743,366 inhabitants of the 3 provinces. At central level, the key beneficiaries are the Ministry in charge of Agriculture and its technical departments and allied structures such as R&D and training institutions. At the devolved and communal level, project implementation will benefit provincial departments of agriculture and livestock, sector cooperatives and value chains stakeholders’ organisations, agricultural households, particularly very vulnerable groups including young people and women, hill-agriculture supervisors/monitors, animal health workers as well as private enterprises.
GROW Campagn - Mozambique - CTV
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This Project is part of the CTV #Land and Forest# program, in the component of monitoring of public institutions# procedures of land rights allocation to external investors. Through the monitoring of public institutions# procedures of land rights allocation linked with the LNG project in Palma, CTV aims to: - Protect communities# rights and ensure their participation in local development - Advocate for an adequacy between political speech and real practices of private and public institutions, based on the three pillars of sustainable development (economical, social and environmental). CTV is working in several provinces with a network of legal community workers, which will be active in this monitoring process, providing assistance to the affectedcommunities, and establishing thelink with CTV#s juridical specialists at a provincial and national level. CTV is currently assuming the secretary of the Mozambican civil society platform on natural resources and extractive industry. At a national level, as well as in Palma district, CTV collaborates closely with the other members of the platform, and plans to include journalists from various social communication Medias, inthe field visits for the monitoring of the licensing process of LNG in Palma district.
Sustainable Cities Impact Program Global Platform (SCIP-GP)
Objectives
cities pursue integrated urban planning and implementation and increase their ambitions, to deliver impactful sustainable development outcomes with global environmental benefits (GEBs)
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Target Groups
The Project aims strengthen integrated urban planning approaches through learning material and opportunities for city officials to improve sustainable, inclusive, and integrated planning approaches. Integrated planning relates to the transformation of existing practices and processes to enable multi-sector collaboration to allow cities to take advantage of the co-benefits to operate as systems (transportation, land use, housing, conservation, business, etc.) influencing one another, and increase efficiencies both in terms of land and resource use, ultimately benefitting biodiversity and ecosystems and the services they provide, climate mitigation and adaptation as well as pollution and health. Integrated planning for sustainable urban development aims to facilitate and articulate political decisions and actions to transform cities and neighborhoods. Integrated planning efforts also emphasize participatory approaches, in which women, minorities and vulnerable groups are part of the dialogues and influence decisions. Cities are natural places for integrated solutions and offer fertile ground to integrate interdependent operations. Traditionally, urban systems have been integrated with varying degrees of effectiveness through urban governance and land use planning. The integration of human systems and natural systems provides strong environmental, social and economic benefits. For instance, the development of and management of watershed ecosystems, forests as urban and peri-urban agriculture as elements of green infrastructure in and around cities, offer compounding benefits for global climate change mitigation and local urban adaptation, resilience, diminishing air and water pollution, and increasing quality of life. Moreover, in this century, problem solving is co-created, powered by multi-level governments, multi-sector networks and individuals and entities with knowledge and capacity that cut across disciplines (New localism, 2019). Cities must prioritize work across multiple sectors (e.g. land use, housing, transport, economic development water, waste, sanitation, public safety, education, and energy) and must align multiple strategies (e.g. planning, budget, staff skills, regulatory frameworks, civic engagement) to be able to have an enduring impact on the ground. Evidence-based and integrated urban planning provide this opportunity. When cities utilize integrated approaches for planning, the impact of the sectoral actions is higher than the sum of the parts. A study by the International Resource Panel (IRP) shows how parallel actions in urban spatial restructuring, human-scale sustainable design, resource-efficient urban components, urban infrastructure planning for cross-sector efficiency and the promotion of sustainable behaviors, leads to improvements in well-being for all, while reducing resource consumption and GHG emissions. According to the “Weight of cities” by the IRP, cities can achieve some 30-55% reduction of GHG emissions, water and metal consumption and land use compared to baseline projections, by leveraging connections and resource sharing across urban systems such as green buildings, district energy systems, bus rapid transport, and transition to renewables combined with strategic densification (IRP, 2018). Utilizing integrated urban planning approaches provides multiple benefits to cities. It allows cities to formulate cross-sectoral goals and to develop monitoring systems for cross-cutting policy fields. They enable cities to develop strategies and projects that involve the knowledge and perspectives of different disciplines and actors from civil and private sector. They help cities with limited budgets and capacities to implement their goals more efficiently by joining capacities and funds, and by reducing trade-offs between sectors and neighboring municipalities (Eisenbeiß, 2016). Integrated sectoral approaches include multiple benefits generated by looking at the connections between sectors. Examples include low-carbon transit-oriented development; circular economy and resource flow driven planning. The same thinking, area-based investments (integrated approaches at the neighborhood level) should use approaches to capture multiple environmental and livability benefits, such as combining green spaces with low emission zones to regulate temperature, air quality and noise for healthier living and a more sustainable environment. Not only does inclusive, integrated urban planning incorporate gender and vulnerable processes into decision making and participatory processes, the GP aims to mainstream gender in all its activities to ensure gender is considered robustly in project design and implementation. For instance, the Project will collect sex-disaggregated data for all events. The Project Team will staff a Gender Lead and will have the support of WRI’s Gender Specialist (as co-finance) through the duration of the project to advise on the design and implementation of the gender action plan.
Strengthening consrevation of Yellow-cheeked crested gibbon and other endangered wildlife in the Southern Anna
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This grant will: (a) identify key trade routes for wildlife, timber and other forest products flowing from Seima and the wider landscape in Vietnam towards Vietnamese markets; (b) identify key sites with remaining populations of yellow-cheeked crested gibbon and other endangered wildlife in the southern Annamites western slopes landscape in Vietnam; (c) create accurate, up-to-date land cover maps of the southern Annamites western slopes landscape; and (d) assess wildlife protection and crime prevention capacity in the southern Annamites western slopes landscape.....Specifically, the Recipient will: (1) produce, through GIS analysis, the first accurate map of land cover, land management units, transport infrastructure for areas adjacent to Seima Protected Forest and Snoul Wildlife Sanctuary; (2) carry out biological field surveys to identify key sites across the Southern Annamites Western Slopes landscape for Yellow-cheeked Gibbons and other key species (i.e. tiger prey, elephant, doucs); (3) assess enforcement capacity and effectiveness in Binh Phuoc and Dak Nong province including a training needs assessment, a review of inter-agency cooperation, a collation of provincial legislation on wildlife conservation/wildlife crimes, and a review of enforcement effort in key enforcement agencies; and (4) carry out interview surveys with local people and government staff to identify key trade routes for wildlife, timber and other forest products flowing from Cambodia into Vietnam.
Conservation and sustainable management of lakes, wetlands, and riparian corridors as pillars of a resilient a
Objectives
To enhance the resilience and sustainability of landscapes and livelihoods in the Aral basin, and progress toward Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), through integrated management of land, lake, wetland, and riparian ecosystems, with engagement of private sector and local communities.
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Target Groups
The envisaged benefits to local and national stakeholders will be interconnected with the aggregated environmental benefits enabled by the project’s features: (i) embedded integrated benefits and synergies across focal areas, (ii) mechanisms for integrated decision making and (iii) landscape-scale designed interventions. The project incentivizes local actors away from destructive behaviour through engaging them in alternative economic activities, as well as biodiversity friendly livelihoods around protected areas. Adequate awareness, technical knowledge and access to funding are key to ensuring that stakeholders will be able to adopt innovative, environmental-friendly practices. The project therefore aims at increasing capacity of 300 public sector employees and PAs staff who will be trained in integrated water-land management and biodiversity management. Approximately 50 local farmers and pastoralists will benefit from the project’s Micro-scheme support for livelihoods ( under Output 3.2.3) and it is estimated that their income will register at least 50% increase as a result of the implemented SLM measures. This is a conservative percentage, as income generation from recommended SLM measures (captured under GEF/UNDP Project Annex 24) will likely provide more benefits: e.g. according to past donor-supported projects[1], application of rotational grazing alone can provide an estimated net profit of up to $16 per sheep ( after subtracting the costs per sheep of about $8) ; similarly, planting drought resistant crops to enhance forage production and prevent erosion leads to a significant generation of profit estimated at $243-$341/ha from the third year onwards, made from selling of seeds and use of hay; whereas the income generation resulted from agroforestry measures as a land reclamation practice, varies e.g. maximal profit may be obtained from cultivation of Russian olive Eleagnus angustifolia due to annual selling of fruits (approx.. 3500 euro/ha within 7 years period); the firewood harvested from Populus euphratica can give a profit of 2300 euro/ha[2] A conservatively estimated number of up to approximately 9700 local households (benefiting 48,500 people, considering 5 family members/household) are envisaged to take up SLM measures promoted and demonstrated by the project and have their livelihoods improved. This number represents 10% of the people employed in agricultural sector in the targeted districts, that are expected to benefit from the project’s activities and the promoted SLM measures: rotational grazing, planting forest shelterbelts, innovative land restorations measures, sustainable irrigation and crop rotations to increase soil productivity. The project will further mobilize governmental funds in the form of subsidies for farmers applying SLM measures on degraded land (through amendments to the Concept “ On measures for the efficient use of land and water resources in agriculture”-June 2019) . Other forms of project support will be extended for alternative local income generating enterprises such as medicinal herb production, handicrafts workshops, green house agriculture, fodder crop agriculture- to provide some form of compensation to farmers/pastoralists who may lose an existing source of income from extensive livestock farming, due to the implementation of sustainable pasture management plans. These measures will yield socio economic benefits and will contribute to the achievement of environmental benefits. Implementing pasture rotational grazing, letting land rest from grazing for a specific period, leads to increase in carbon sequestration in soil and vegetation; increase of pasture botanical composition which is expected to increase livestock welfare and milk production. Promoted use of manure as fertiliser to improve soil structure will reduce chemical use and agricultural expenses. These practices are also inferred to reduce hazards to soil, wildlife and human health. The benefits produced by the SLM interventions have the potential to reduce vulnerability to climate change, supporting multiple sources of food, energy and income thereby reducing community dependence on any single resource that might be affected by climate change. For example, various and innovative measures of restoring degraded land in targeted districts and supporting local communities’ alternative income from vegetable gardens, fruit tree cultivation, rustic poultry, basketry etc contribute to both food security and income diversity. Rehabilitation of water pumps and wells will ensure crop productivity which is especially important considering the past decade’s increase incidence of drought. Furthermore, tree planting and ecosystem protection activities in forests and pastures contribute to increase soil productivity and decreased soil salinity, thus providing ecosystems goods and services that further mitigate the negative effects of climate change. Replication and scaling up embedded in project design will ensure multiple benefits occurring during and soon after the project will end, through the formed partnerships that leveraged the resources of multiple sectors such as private companies, research institutes, NGOs, other donors. The mechanisms for integrated decision making that the project will promote under GEF/UNDP Projects Outputs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1 and 2.2 and community outreach/collaborative approaches in support of PAs management under 3.2.2 will provide opportunities to reduce conflicts among resource users and/or overlaps in institutional mandates. General agreements on potential trade-offs promoted through an integrated and participatory manner, provide the platform for improved environmental and socio-economic benefits. In addition to agricultural activities, as it has been demonstrated by many other projects, during participatory mechanisms, farmers use these opportunities to talk about water, climate, sanitation and social issues and by so doing they are able to engage local authorities as partners in different other proposals for rural development. Finally, the project’s focus at landscape-level in Lower Amudarya and Aral Sea Basin (LADAB) landscape and on the implementation of multiple interventions within a spatial unit, allows for generating more synergistic benefits. Healthy ecosystems will ensure resilience of the region to climate and human threats, and the maintenance of ecosystem services for local communities. [1] Examples recorded in UNCCD/WOCAT database [2] http://www.fao.org/3/i7318en/I7318en.pdf
PERFORMANCE-BASED PARTNERSHIP SCHEME FOCUSING ON QUALITY PROGRAMMING, UNDERSTANDING CHANGE AND RESULTS FOR P
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Indigenous women and men are empowered socially, politically and economically; are organised and have tools and resources to effect change; and contribute to creating a just and equitable society in Guatemala Outcome 2.1: People living in poverty, particularly rural indigenous women, benefit from the sustainable use and management of natural resources Objective 2: Communities are supported to adopt disaster risk reduction, land management and mitigation measures to enhance their resilience
Scaling Up Fertilizer Micro-Dosing and Indigenous Vegetable Production and Utilization in West Africa (CIFSRF
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Poor soil fertility and land degradation result in low production yields and quality for indigenous vegetables in West Africa. This project will address the challenges to improve vegetable production through fertilizer innovations. Increasing vegetable yields and quality This project will build on earlier research funded by the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF), a program of IDRC undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada provided through Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. Two earlier projects generated promising results to improve food security in West Africa for poor families. Using innovations developed in this earlier work, researchers will speed up adoption of innovative approaches that will use cost-saving fertilizer micro-dosing and better water management to improve indigenous vegetable production in Nigeria and Benin. The project team will develop, test, and deploy two different models (Innovations Platform and Satellite Dissemination Approach) that will reach and benefit more farmers with sustainable vegetable production and marketing approaches. They will connect women-led cooperatives and youth groups to the private sector and business organizations, directly reaching more than 255,000 households. The team's work will involve further developing commercial seed production, postharvest handling, and value chains. They will also strengthen producer groups. Project leadership A consortium of five universities in Canada, Benin, and Nigeria will lead the project. They will mobilize at least 20 private sector partners and government agencies to build small and medium vegetable and fertilizer businesses. Their work will serve to double the income of approximately one million farmers in West Africa along the vegetable value chain.
LOMA MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION PROJECT: AN APPROACH TO PROTECT THE LARGEST POPULATIONS OF WESTERN C
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The purpose of this project is to support the protection of Loma Mountains National Parks endangered.chimpanzees by: (1) conducting surveys to estimate chimpanzee abundance, understand population.dynamics, and identify cultural traits; (2) conducting fecal analysis and botanical surveys to determine.chimpanzee dietary habits, and resource needs and use; (3) using botanical surveys, satellite imagery and.ground-truthing to map chimpanzee habitat; (4) restoring that habitat through reforestation with key tree.species; (5) improving biomonitoring through increasing the number of community monitors and.expanding their training; (6) conducting environmental education in 14 schools and introducing a Roots.& Shoots program for regional youth; (7) improving understanding of local economies through a.socioeconomic study and land use planning; and promoting a shift to more environmentally friendly.livelihoods.
UNDP Peru. Support to Phase II of the Peru, Norway, Germany DoI. Del 2
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Peru approved in 2019 the implementation plan for how to reduce deforestation under the political agreement with Norway. The project will help Peru execute the implementation plan. The project builds on a former project: PER-16/0002, and will advance titling of indigenous community lands, zoning unassigned forest land and help protect national parks.