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Displaying 2721 - 2730 of 6947Green Livelihoods Alliance 2 Democratic Republic of the Congo
General
There is amazing biodiversity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This Central African country has extensive woodland, with high importance for food security of local communities. There are, however, armed conflicts over resources in the country, particularly in East Congo. The habitats of wildlife including gorillas, hippopotamuses and elephants have come under pressure due to these conflicts and illegal poaching. East Congo is rich in expensive natural resources, such as hardwood and firewood. The soil is also rich in mineral resources such as copper, coltan and oil. Armed groups regularly use violence to gain control over these natural resources. The Green Livelihoods Alliance has seven partner organisations in Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega, nature reserves that UNESCO recognises as natural World Heritage Sites. Millions of people live in extreme poverty around the Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega National Park. They depend on natural resources for their livelihood. The programme aims to improve the relationship between both parties, thus working towards a win-win situation. The Green Livelihoods Alliance furthermore strengthens local and indigenous communities that stand up against illegal poaching and fishing. We help them to prevent land expropriation and to enforce nationally and internationally recognised rights. In addition, we encourage them to join forces with park rangers to protect their areas and to show park rangers how they can focus on ways of procuring forest products and fishing in lakes with respect for the environment.
Objectives
The DRC programme of the Green Livelihoods Alliance focuses on the restoration, protection and sustainable management of the ecosystems in the Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega landscapes. It’s about natural resource management in a sustainable, concerted and inclusive manner, which guarantees the livelihoods of local communities and indigenous peoples and the stability of protected areas. The programme adopts three envisaged pathways of change: Restoring social peace and stability in the East landscape: local communities and indigenous populations in the Virunga and Kahuzi Biega landscapes are acting freely, responsibly and are reconciled. Activities to achieve this include: education of youth, women and land chiefs in sustainable management of natural resources, meetings with the traditional leaders and bringing different stakeholders in the landscape together. Re-establishing social and environmental justice: establishment of an environmental juridical clinic providing legal support and strengthened advocacy for the restoration of state authority in the Virunga landscape, so that stakeholders adopt best practices in their daily lives, livelihoods are improved and the living conditions of the local population and indigenous populations have increased. Assuring the sustainable use of natural resources and restoring ecosystems: benefits of protected areas should contribute to the sustainable development of local populations, stakeholders are involved in decisions making process and new alternatives are developed.
LAND RIGHTS FOR VULNERABLE RURAL WOMen AND YOUTH
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The ‘LAND RIGHTS FOR VULNERABLE RURAL WOMen AND YOUTHS’ will continue to protect the rights of rural women and youths to access land in the project Communities with existing project, in Margibi and Bong counties. The project aims to contribute to secure land tenure for poor and vulnerable rural women and youths, empower them and create more awareness on land legalization in rural communities across 20 project communities including new communities in Margibi and Bong counties. The project target is to ensure that vulnerable rural women and youths enjoy and exercise unrestricted access to land in their respective communities. To achieve the stated objective, the project will work with the Liberia Land Authority (LLA) to ensure smooth implementation. The project will ensure that vulnerable rural women and youths acquire substantial information on their rights to land as well as their rights to inherit real property, specifically land right, and how those land will be manage when it is acquired. This intervention will instill self-confidence amongst youths and women that will permit them to express their experiences and report cases in which they have been marginalised.
Implementing a mechanism of territorial adaptation in Magdalena and Baures Beni
General
The project main objective is to promote and develop the implementation of a Territorial adaptive management process in the municipalities of Magdalena and Baures in Beni, as a mechanism for planning and land management which allows the improvement of the existing ones, with the active participation of rural and urban populations. For which it has established an agreement with WWF for the funding of the whole initiative for a total period of 18 months.
MAP/ Maraza Land Development Pilot Proj.
General
The problems confronting urban deltas are complex and require an all-embracing approach. The Dutch Government and the delta city of Beira agreed to enter into a medium term partnership to enhance the city’s resilience to flooding and assist it to adapt to climate change. In a participatory process, a plan was developed which was adopted by the City council in 2014, the Beira Masterplan. Part of the plan was a list of priority projects among which the development of the Maraza New Town Area. Maraza is an undeveloped swamp area of 350 ha inside the city of Beira. The Maraza pilot project envisages to prove that through organized extension of residential areas, suitable land can be made available to end users for affordable prices in areas which are currently inhabitable due to regular flooding. The Municipality of Beira will establish a mechanism to or-ganize this: the Land Development Company (LDC)- an au-tonomous entity that will raise, level and drain terrains to reach economies of scale. In the statutes of the LDCs it is stipulated that all revenues are returning to the LDC and that part of the area will be used for social housing. With the pro-posed EKN contribution and an equivalent contribution of the municipality of Beira a pilot will be carried out to create a ‘ fly wheel effect’ for the business case. An area of 3 hec-tares will be landfilled, 125 plots delineated and granted with secured land rights as well as basic infrastructure (ac-cess roads, utilities, drainage system). The British social investor REALL will be the launching cus-tomer. After scaling up the number of houses, it will be-come possible to build houses in the range of USD 10.000 per unit, giving the lower income groups an alternative to the present situation of forced habitation in flood prone are-as.
ILC, International Land Coalition 2015-2019
General
ILC, The International Land Coalition, has over 150 member organisations ranging from intergovernmental organisations to research institutes to farmers' organisations working for secure land tenure for poor women and men through advocacy, dialogue and capacity building.Besides the normative work ILC supports CSOs in the South with project funding.
Objectives
ILC's collective goal as a network is to realise land governance for and with people at the country level, responding to the needs and protecting the rights of those who live on and from the land. During the 2015 Assembly of Members, held in Dakar, Senegal on the 15th of May 2015, members of the Coalition adopted a new Strategy for the period 2016-2021. ILC has defined 10 commitments to realise peoplecentred land governance at the country level. All ILC members individually and collectively contribute to the realisation of these commitments in policy, practice and agenda setting at their respective level of action. These commitments are the benchmark by which ILC members work towards the implementation of the VGGTs (Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure) and other internationally agreed instruments to achieve: - Secure tenure rights - Strong small scale farming systems - Diverse tenure systems - Equal land rights for women - Secure territorial rights for indigenous peoples - Locally managed ecosystems - Inclusive decision making - Transparent and accessible information - Effective actions against land grabbing - Protection for land rights defenders