Community / Land projects / Search results
Search Projects
Programme
By Geographical Scope
By Issues
Implementing organization
By funder
By year range
Oct 2011 - Mar 2015
1524
The project will improve the capacities of law graduates and empower local CSOs and forest communities in CAR and Gabon to understand, analyse and use national laws related to forest management, land and resource rights, human rights and IP rights. As a result, selected IP groups and forest communities will be capable of devising and implementing legal and advocacy strategies and will have more secure land tenure arrangements, access to forest revenues, and will be consulted adequately on matters concerning them, exercising their right to FPIC.
Dec 2014 - Dec 2023
To support public-private partnerships that demonstrate how companies, communities, smallholders and governments can work collaboratively to reduce deforestation and benefit forest dependent communities. Land is one component of this programme.
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
55000.00
VGGT based forest tenure and CBF assessments conducted in each of the countries. In Gabon and Congo Brazzaville the assessments will inform Ministry of Forests on status and challenges of CBF, and recommendations for improvement. In Honduras and Senegal, the assessments will be used to inform on-going forestry programs and design of new projects. In Mongolia, the assessment will be used to promote implementation of the VGGT and inform the pasture law being drafted. In Portugal, the findings are being used to promote policy dialogue on communal forest land tenure and management.
Oct 2014 - Jun 2016
70000.00
A national workshop on the Voluntary Guidelines was held in Libreville during 14-16 January to help to strengthen the national dialogue on the most pressing tenure challenges and opportunities in Gabon and the use of the Voluntary Guidelines in light of ongoing reforms. The participants agreed to create a multi-sectoral committee to continue striving for improved governance of tenure and to formulate a cross-sectoral strategy for implementing the Voluntary Guidelines in Gabon at all levels.
Apr 2017 - Mar 2021
Evaluation of the Partnerships for Forests (P4F) Programme
Aug 2017 - Sep 2021
1230000.00
The objective is: "Industrial forest use in the Congo Basin is increasingly based on the principles of sustainable management". The target group is the largely poor population in the outskirts of industrial forestry concessions and in a broader sense the world population due to the effects of the project on the global goods "biodiversity" and "climate".
The measures primarily concern the improvement of the socio-economic and ecological sustainability of industrial management and the improvement of the framework conditions for their certification.
Nov 2011 - Dec 2017
9200000.00
This programme aims at supporting African stakeholders in strengthening the role of Africa's forests and trees to adapt to climate change in ways that enhance liverlihoods, sustain buidiversity and improve the quality of the environment
Aug 2015 - Aug 2020
To improve the the livelihoods of forest dependent communities and reduce deforestation in the Congo Basin by providing support to forest zoning, independent forest monitoring, civil society advocacy and the strengthening of legal frameworks for community forestry, as well as direct investments in community forest enterprises. The programme is expected to benefit 2.4million beneficiaries (direct and indirect). The programme will also have a demonstration effect, building a body of evidence on Community Forestry in the Congo Basin.