General

New/additional funds to address COVID-19 Somalia is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in the world. The rapid urbanization is caused by significant forced displacements from rural areas into urban areas driven by conflicts, insecurity, search for economic opportunities and cyclical environmental adversities such as drought and famine. This has a huge impact not only upon livelihood opportunities, peace and stability and resilience, but also shifting rural and pastoralist livelihood to urban economies. The urban influx raises many challenges for the provision of basic urban services including secure access to land for settlement of IDPs and existing vulnerable communities. Lack of effective land administration and planning systems and weak institutions has led to arbitrary distribution of land and has aggravated contestation over land, housing and basic services. Intense competition over land exacerbates forced evictions particularly among IDPs and urban poor. The focus of this programme will be to promote inclusive employment opportunities for urban vulnerable populations, increase youth participation; integration of displacement affected households and to strengthen implementation of Durable Solutions and Youth development across Somalia. The programme will be implemented in Mogadishu, Kismayo, Baidoa and Dollow which are some of the majorly affected towns/cities.

Objectives

The main objective of the project is to: To contribute to sustainable urban development, building resilient communities and providing urban services and livelihood opportunities for residents and marginalised groups.  The project has 4 main outcomes: Outcome 1: Inclusive employment opportunities in market sector driven value chains under the sustainable productive sectors increased Outcome 2: Increased youth participation in peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts including engagement in local governance and national decision-making processes.  Outcome 3: Enhanced local social, economic and spatial integration of displacement affected households through urban regeneration and upgrading projects Outcome 4: Enhancing tools and frameworks that strengthen implementation of Durable Solutions and Youth development across Somalia

General

Main objectives: -Increasing legal advice on land rights for the poor, including the deployment of an interactive website http://trogiupphaplyvedatdai.com/ and a smartphone application (called LILA). - Supporting the press to exploit the topics and identify social problems from the app information trogiupphaplyvedatdai.com; verifying, contacting and mobilizing information for articles on newspapers or on related forums; creating pressure on media for local authorities to solve these issues. - Conducting investigation,publication of articles in newspapers and other communication channels, possibly including non-press tools such as documents and reportssent to authorized agencies, in order to accelerate the settlement of cases quickly and with transparency. RED communication strives toward a fair society where legal rights are guaranteed and people's livelihoods improved. RED communication is a non-governmental organisation and as a pioneer in development communication in Vietnam, it uses the power of communication to achieve optimal results from development programmes and create conditions for their spreading.

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Under the #Land Learning series#, a knowledge initiative developed by the Global Land Program, an exchange visit for Oxfam Country team and their partner representatives is organized on 4-8 March 2018 in Vietnam. The purpose of this #land learning journey# is to provide an opportunity for exchange and collective learning around the topic of protection of community land rights, land conflicts <(>&<)> land conflict resolution, engagement with private sector for responsible investments, and community land forestmanagement. Participants in the learning journey include Oxfam and partners representatives from Africa, Asia and Latin America (Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, Indonesia, and Peru). The event is hosted and facilitatedby Oxfam in Vietnam, with the contribution of partners in the country. With a combination of exchanges, training, field exposure, and interactive public event,this learning journey represents a great opportunity to advance the collective reflection on practical modalities to achieve pro-poor inclusive land governance.