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Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack ofintegrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. Oxfam in Cambodia has just become an implementing partner of ACCESS project (Advancing CSOs# Capacity to Enhance Sustainability Solutions) which has been funded by EU through WWF. The ACCESS project aims to ensure that marginalized forest communities affected by land conflicts and the depletion of the natural resourceswhich they depend upon are able to take action and to raise their voice to recover their rights and legally enforce the protection of their forest, and hold the Government and private companies accountable for their actions. The proposed Action aims at achieving a gender equity-based secured and sustainable community-based forest and natural resources governance in Mondulkiri Province with linkages and upscaling to the national level. The project will support the empowerment of forest-dependent communities in Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary (PPWS) and Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary (SWS) covering 40% of the land area of Mondulkiri Province, the least populated, most forested, and among the richest provinces in natural resources (soil, timber, mineral) in Cambodia. The role of Oxfam in Cambodia in the ACCESS project focuses on assess the capacity of the NRM NGO network in Mondulkiri province, capacitate and coachingthe NRM NGO network and enable the NRM NGO network to function themselves.

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This project falls under the thematic area Right to Food and follows on the project A-04844 from 2016-2018. Through our work on Right to Food Oxfam Novib and SOMO aim to achieve that more small-scale food producers and agricultural workers, particularly women andtheir communities, benefit from local to global publi cand private sector policies that protect and promote their prosperity and resilience. Since 2016 the context has changed for which we have adjusted the project intervention. The original plan was designed inan optimistic period on the eve of the transfer to the civilian elected government, when the progressive National Land Use Policy was being finalised and there was an expectation of a progressive reform process. While solidarity within civil society is growing and there has been some limited progress on policies, steps toward land governance reform have been limited and space for communities and civil society to influence has shrunk. Following the Rohingya refugee crisis fewer responsible investors are coming to Myanmar, resulting in a growing dominance of less accountable investors. As a result, the project focuses more on equipping local communitiesand civil society organizations with tools to address these private actors. Moreover, in face of the challenging context there is agreater need to continue building solidarity among civil society and movements to facilitate more effective national and especiallythe sub national lobby and advocacy. This is crucial with 3 controversial land law amendment processes underway for the period 2019-2020. The long term objective remains the same that people realize their right to food sovereignty and they influence decision-making that positively impacts their land and natural resources rights in line with international environmental and social standards Toachieve this long-term outcome in Myanmar Oxfam works together with Metta and Paung Ku. Metta will extend project implementation toEastern Shan State to support capacity development of local CSOs have invited Metta to initiate awareness-raising on land and natural resource rights at community level. Paung Ku is an additional partner in the project that focus on developing civil society and alliance capacity for strategic influencing at union level and engagement with independent media.

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We kept promoting international targets and indicators on women#s and community#s land rights. In 2014-2015, Oxfam participated in the discussions over the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and its monitoring framework by: i) leading the coalition of civil society organizations on this issue, and partnering with UN Agencies, research organizations, governments, and Major Groups in New York;ii) facilitating common positions across various initiatives, and developing policy material; iii) engaging with the Global Donor Platform on Rural Development, the Global Land Indicator Initiative, the Committee on World Food Security; iv) and providing inputs in consultations related to the Agenda. As result, we # in alliance with others # secured: i) three robusttargets on land rights (1.4, 2.3 and 5a) in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda; ii) three strong indicators in its monitoring framework; iii) The World Bank, UN-Habitat, and FAO taking steps to track progress; iv) growing consensus around land rights targets and indicators, as testified by joint policy positions and technical documents; v) The CFS starting a monitoring exercise on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure in October 2016. In addition, in March 2016 we launched with allies the Land Rights Now campaign to increase political will around the issue of indigenous and community land rights, and support national influencing strategies. The campaign, which counts more than 600 organizations and communities, was launched through the flagship report #Common Ground# in 3 languages, launch events in 11 countries and a global mobilization week with more than 60 largely grassroots actions in 29 countries. The global campaign supported national campaigns in several countries gathering around 100k signatures.