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Displaying 1241 - 1245 of 2117Frame agreement with NGO (Siemenpuu)
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The project intervention basically aims to strengthen and building the capacity of the Adivasi communities and to make them capable of addressing the issues encountered and control over the natural resources and ownership. This will be attained through the empower + awareness of Adivasi community and strengthening of adivasi organisations. The strengthening of the Adivasi community will address the important issues such as ? Land rights, forest rights with especial focus to community forest rights and PESA. Addressing the problems thereby providing a suitable platform to raise the issues at respective authority and legalise the control over the resources and ownership as well as check the exploiters, To enrich the adivasi traditions and culture of adivasis a nd finally to build the capacity so that the adivasis can raise their voice to independently access their rights to livelihood and dignity.
Frame agreement with NGO (Siemenpuu)
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The project consists of campaigning against commercializing and privatizing of nature, as well as supporting more sustainable alternatives born in local communities in seven Latin American countries. The project is implemented by the national Friends of th e Earth groups in Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. Local communities? work on small scale farming, native seeds, community forestry and mangrove forests is supported through training, networking and communication ma terials. Awareness-raising of the wider public and advocacy aimed at political decision-makers is implemented by producing leaflets, radio programmes and analysis. Advocacy work is also related to the drafting and implementation of laws on seeds, harmful i mpacts of agro chemicals and protection of forests and wetlands. REDES is a Uruguayan NGO founded by students and social activists in 1988. It campaigns on social and environmental themes aiming at increasing general public?s awareness and influencing on p olitical decision-making. Together with universities and social movements it does studies, communication work and training on the same themes. In addition, it drafts proposals on alternative public policies and supports local level actors in implementing t hem. Lately REDES has focused on food sovereignty (seeds, land rights, agro chemicals, land grabbing, agribusiness). REDES has 40 members and approximately 900 collaborators. It is Uruguay?s Friends of the Earth. www.redes.org.uy
Sheger Resilience Program
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This programme will support the Addis Ababa City Administration (AACA) to implement the Sheger Project using a holistic approach of nesting integrated watershed management within the broader ambit of sustainable urban land use planning
Private Sector Advocacy for Responsible Agribusiness Investments in Ghana
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This project will build the private sector influencing capacity of Oxfam in Ghana and national Civil Society Organizations. (CSOs) to influence and hold accountable Three (3) US/European based Behind the Brand (BtB) companies sourcing cocoa and other agricultural commodities from Ghana and public policies and practices. This will involve strategically engaging and holding BtB companies accountable to their commitments to climate, land, and gender, using Oxfam's methodologies/tools and expertise in private sector engagement and development. The project will improve accountability of at least Three (3) food and beverage companies' supply chains and increase Oxfam's positioning to engage other large food companies, which are expanding investment in Ghana. The project will contribute to promoting secure and equitable land rights for Cocoa farmers, especially women small holder to benefit from investments, and for Ghanaian society at large to ensure inclusive rural development. To increase social inclusion as well as for productive investment in the rural sector, national and traditional land tenure and land governance policies are targeted.
F.a: Womens Land Rights and Rescuing of Traditional Agricultural Production Systems
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Mozambiques land rights legislation and policies recognize women's equal rights, but even so women received only 20 % of land-use permits issued in 2015. Equality is hindered by patriarchal culture, traditional norms that nurture power imbalance, womens po or awareness of their rights, as well as land and natural resource use pressure threatening peasant agriculture, such as large investments to produce commodities. Also in the Ribaue and Malema regions, peasants are under pressure to abandon the biodiverse agriculture aimed at local consumption and to switch to export crops such as soybean and cotton produced by industrial inputs (seeds, pesticides, fertilizers).