NGO Forum Core Support 2015

General

NGOF is one of the leading NGOs network organizations in Cambodia, composed of local and international NGOs, mandated to serve as avenue for information sharing, exchange of ideas and advocacy on priority issues affecting Cambodia#s development. In its new strategic plan 2015-2017, It has four main programme include Environment, Development Issues, Research Information Center and Land and Livelihoods programs, while private sector engagement is integrated in to the Land and Livelihoods and Environment programme. Oxfam Novib support to NGOF for 2015 focus only the Land and Livelihoods Programme. The goal of this project is to ensure that NGOs workingon land issues cooperate to secure access to land and sustainable livelihoods, benefitting the poor <(>&<)> vulnerable for the local communities. At the same time, to enhance NGOs and affected communities participation to trigger land conflict resolution by relevant stakeholders to ensure land tenure security with gender sensitivity. The project will continue to implement gender mainstreaming. The strategic intervention of this project is framed around: 1) Policy dialogue and advocacy on land reform based on the inclusion of gender disaggregated data collection. 2) Emergency assistance will be provided to stakeholders who are poor and female / female-headed households who are involved in land conflicts. 3) Capacity building for members in monitoring and documentation of conflicts; 4) awareness-raising and advocacy in a systematic, complete and gender-responsive manner. Research projects will further monitorthe trends that are disadvantaging the poor and vulnerable, especially women in terms of Land Conflicts, Compensation, Forced Evictions, land registration as well as Economic Land Concessions.