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1. Project: 11435 Land and Livelihood Advocacy Project (LLAP)#2. Project area and Country: Pursat and Kampong Speu Provinces in Cambodia.#3. Project justification: #Accessing land titles is still a constraint for many people in rural Cambodia. The vulnerab le people in the communities often have no land titles, which then results into land conflicts with their neighbours and newcomers as the lands of the poor people are easy targets for powerful people and private companies. When land conflict cases have bee n brought to the provincial court, the ruling is often against the poor people due to corruption. The majority of community people are illiterate and do not understand the processes to obtain rights to land, besides which they lack information form the rel evant authorities on Land Law and Land Registration. In addition, the duty-bearers have poor knowledge and skills on Alternative Disputes Resolution (ADR) and have to send all land conflicts to district and provincial courts for decision-making.#4. The mai n objective and the expected results:#The main objective of the Land and Livelihood Advocacy Project is to improve the quality of the dispute resolution process and to increase access to justice by the poor in Pursat and Kampong Speu Provinces. The project seeks to provide the commune councils with the necessarily skills to mediate and resolve conflicts related to land and family issues at the local level. It also aims to build the capacity of the district officers to work together with the commune council to solve the land and family conflicts. The project will continue the capacity building on basic Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) started in the previous phase.#At the end of the project, the targeted community members will have increased knowledge and understanding of Land Law and Rights and basic Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Family Law. The project will also promote dialogue platform on land conflict resolution for right holders and duty bearers at national level and will carry out case in vestigation on the reported disputes.#5. Right-holders/ beneficiaries: 4,560 beneficiaries (farmers, youth, and elderly)#Duty bearers: District officials, commune councilors, and village chiefs#6. Implementing partner: Life With Dignity (LWD)

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The purpose of this project is to ensure the long-term protection of the Yura region of Peru located within the Purs-Manu.Landscape, a 10-million-hectare (25 million acre) mosaic of conservation areas and indigenous lands that contains some of the.most remote and least disturbed forests in the entire Amazon basin. It is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, rich in.native fauna and flora, and includes one of the highest concentrations of isolated people anywhere on Earth. The Yura is among.the most remote and inaccessible parts of the Purs-Manu Landscape, where intact plant and animal communities sustain.members of six indigenous tribes in various stages of contact with the outside world and at least two still living in voluntary.isolation. While still largely intact, the region is threatened by several deforestation drivers including illegal logging, an expanding.agriculture frontier from Brazil and, most concerning, a partially constructed illegal road which threatens to open intact forest with.potentially devastating impacts on the ecosystems and the people who depend on them.The project will build indigenous.conservation capacity to protect species and habitats and prevent illegal intrusions that threaten to open intact forest with.potentially devastating impacts on the ecosystems and the people who depend on them. In doing so, it will protect several rare and.threatened species such as the yellow-spotted sideneck turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), the South American river turtle (Podocnemis.expansa), the bald uakari primate (Cacajao calvus ucayalii) and the arapaima fish (Arapaima gigas) while providing alternative.income sources to unsustainable resource use. Specific activities include: (1) creating a new conservation alliance between three.indigenous associations, Perus Park Service (SERNANP, acronym in Spanish), and the Upper Amazon Conservancy (a division.of Multiplier) to consolidate and strengthen local opposition to illegal intrusions;

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Project will reduce the threat of agricultural and livestock expansion and intensification into the Ostua dry forest by working with local stakeholders. Project activities include: 1) establishing a model for connectivity between dry forests and riparian zones, 2) implementing land-use planning and more efficient livestock production systems in conjunction with local communities, 3) engaging with at least 10 ranchers to improve practices and apply for forest ecosystem services payments, and 4) systemizing the pilot model to scale it up throughout the Montecristo-Trinational Biological Corridor.