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Wetlands perform a great number of socio-economic and ecological functions. Nonetheless, only few wetlands are under effective protection in Panama. UNDP envisages an array of measures designed to manage protected mangroves and other wetlands over an area of 13,800 ha. The measures are to be monitored and assessed with regard to their carbon dynamics. The project shall give greater priority to wetlands within Panama's national protected area system and will improve the capacity of the national environmental authority to manage protected areas.

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COLANDEF is an NGO that aims to secure land tenure rights and promote women’s empowerment in Ghana through local governance, policy advocacy, and mainstreaming gender into development. Omidyar Network has funded COLANDEF to implement a two-year advocacy and media campaign to improve customary land rights documentation across Ghana. Within this project, COLANDEF aims to produce an agreement between Customary and Statutory leaders on the form and process for customary land rights documentation, and to produce and then pilot a handbook and template agreement for documenting land rights. The project’s media component aims to educate rural populations about the benefits of land documentation, their rights, and how to obtain documents. It consists of 24 primetime appearances on Ghanaian TV, and will potentially reach six million people.

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The goal is that civil society partner organizations are able to promote their interests on the state level (e. g. in the area of land).