Objectives

This project seeks to improve the living conditions, assistance, and protection of drought and conflict affected population and host communities by facilitating the equitable access to multi-sectorial services in Bossaso through effective Camp Coordination and Camp Management. The core problems that the project intends to address are restricted humanitarian access, lack of information on service provision at site level, lack of land tenure and forced evictions. The intervention is an integrated response across the three clusters of Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM), Shelter and Housing Land amp Property (HLP) where PSA will implement CCCM activities, whereas NRC will implement shelter and HLP activities. In order to facilitate a seamless implementation of the integrated project, PSA and NRC have settled on pre-teaming agreement, which outlines and expresses a convergence of will between the two organizations, indicating an intended common line of action, expectations and roles the document has been uploaded as part of attached documents. The collaboration between the two organizations under the integrated project will ensure there is teamwork where information and intervention is synchronized through maximum utilization of the resources and information in accordance with SHF principles. The project PSA will target 2,900 HHs (17,400 individuals, 50% females) that are most vulnerable in across Bossaso IDPs sites, PSA will directly target the following camps and population per sites: Xaadoole(1178), Saylada xoolaha(2552), Biyo kulule(1968), New biyo kulule(2271), Banaadir(1765),Bulo mingis(3296), Raf iyo raaxo(1976), Tuurjaale(1567) and Xaafatu carab(827) IDPs camps. In addition, in areas with some of the gaps, the project will indirectly include other sites that require additional assistance due to the large number of IDPs living in the camps. The sites would be selected in close coordination with CCCM cluster displacement data and information, where 80% of the beneficiaries targeted will be IDPs and 20% host communities. On disability inclusivity, the rights of PWDs will be put into consideration by disaggregating beneficiary data by disability (preferably using the Washington Group Short Set of Questions (WGSS), by being included in camp management committees (CMCs) and by ensuring feedback and complaints mechanisms are designed to ensure accessibility for PWDs. Also, gender will be mainstreamed into the project through the specific consideration of the different needs of women, men, boys and women. Additionally, minority groups rights (minority clans and other groups) will be fully be put under consideration through camp leadership and participation in cash for work activities. The proposed CCCM activities will comprise 1 Mapping of the existing governance structures: 9 Service Mapping: 2 Bi-annual site verification The establishment/ efficient use of referral pathways to benefit 17400 individuals Communication with Communities (CwC) to reach 17400 individuals 3 Coordination meetings with service providers Establishment of one site roving team 9 Eviction risk data mapping CMCs capacity building on governance for 150 participants (CMCs) 3 Safety Audits Installation and rehabilitation of 60 solar lights Garbage Collection will benefit 126 individuals (60% women) Special mobility assistance for 80 PwDs Establishment of one Community Feedback Mechanism and Hotline Site management and planning training for 150 participants Lobby and advocacy on land tenure and ownership to benefit 17400 individuals

Objectives

The project will apply legal methods during interventions to provide timely, effective and quality lifesaving protection response and service provision to respond to Housing, Land and Property rights violations through preventative and remedial mechanisms within the protracted displacement context in Somalia. Responses will be timely in order to address emerging housing, land and property issues by improving and securing land tenure thereby reducing potential exposure to forced evictions in Dalxiiska IDP settlement in Kismayo and a cluster of IDP settlements in the north of Baidoa. Prevention of forced evictions will be approached through the use of community structures in dispute settlement, advocacy and response to housing, land and property rights violations through information, counseling and legal assistance. The project will prioritize land tenure security within settlements and facilitate the development and acquisition of legal land tenure documentation for enhanced shelter and livelihoods initiatives. Capacity building for humanitarian and local actors on Housing Land and Property rights will be done to ensure that this is mainstreamed within the interventions of other stakeholders. The project will assist displaced persons claim and exercise their HLP rights and attain durable solutions through the prevention of further displacement by supporting them to overcome legal obstacles related to accessing and controlling housing, land and property rights. The project will strengthen dispute resolution for community structures through collaborative Dispute Resolution (CDR) trainings to ensure alternative dispute resolution mechanisms are used to resolve HLP specific cases in the first instance with litigation as a last resort. The project will conduct capacity building through trainings and advocacy to ensure rights holders, duty bearers and decision makers are empowered to claim, promote and exercise HLP rights and subsequently address HLP violations such as land grabbing, multiple land claims, forced evictions among others. Limited access to land and insecurity of land tenure is a major obstacle to the provision of sustainable solutions for vulnerable displaced populations across Somalia, Kismayo remains particularly affected. As the community based protection systems are often male dominated and often discriminate against women, NRC will prioritize female beneficiaries during information sessions and legal assistance considering their vulnerability levels. To further enhance collaboration and multisector responses to forced evictions, the project will work closely with the shelter cluster, other humanitarian actors, HLP sub-cluster members and NRC shelter project. Land tenure secured through communal land agreements will be implemented prior to construction of any humanitarian infrastructure and alternative land will be negotiated and secured for populations at risk of forced evictions. Community participation processes will be used to identify beneficiaries and ensure interventions are both inclusive and community driven. Field conversations will be used to engage the community through consultations prior to and after the implementation of project activities in both Kismayo and Baidoa. This approach will be used to strengthen community networks while gender will be mainstreamed within all the initiatives.

Objectives

To improve the ecological connectivity of two priority landscapes, the Putumayo – Aguarico and the Palora-Pastaza, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, through the establishment of two connectivity corridors and associated management mechanisms, to ensure the long-term biodiversity conservation of its ecosystems.

Other

Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.

Target Groups

The project will generate socio-economic benefits by maintaining and enhancing the resource base on which local communities in the two project landscapes rely for their livelihoods. By developing actions that lead to the conservation of biodiversity, the project will benefit the inhabitants of the prioritized landscapes by preserving ecosystem services, such as fresh water, a healthy environment, medicines, and food production (Component 1). As well-being of indigenous local communities in the two project landscapes largely depends upon natural ecosystems, indigenous populations in both landscapes (approximate 40% of the total population in the Putumayo-Aguarico landscape and 70% in the Palora-Pastaza landscape) will benefit from the conservation of their remaining forests, in line with their Life Plans and other land-use planning tools. Through an inclusive approach, the strategy of this project will benefit vulnerable groups, in particular indigenous peoples, women, and youth, strengthening their participation in formal decision-making platforms for connectivity corridor management (Component 3). The project will strengthen existing bioeconomy initiatives, in the two project landscapes, that have the potential to succeed in local, national, and international markets, with the goal of strengthening and improving aspects of value addition and commercialization, resulting in inclusive socio-economic benefits for the involved communities. The project will support producers to strengthen market-driven value chains for bioeconomy initiatives, linked to biodiversity conservation, contributing to increasing their incomes as they follow a value chain approach with a market orientation. Existing bioeconomy initiatives in both landscapes, that could be supported are related to the sustainable harvest, process, and commercialization of sweet water fish like paiche (arapaima gigas) and cachama (piaractus brachypomus); citronella; guayusa (ilex guayusa); ungurahua (oenocarpus bataua); turmeric, ishpingo (amazon cinnamon); morete (mauritia flexuosa); sacha inchi (amazon peanut); and community nature-based tourism. Increasing the profitability of sustainable production systems at the family level, will reduce direct pressures (ex. deforestation, land use change and illegal hunting) upon the native forest within the corridors.