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1. Advocate for the enactment of the land related Laws to support government implementation of the national Land Policy 2. Monitor implementation of the National Land Policy - specifically Landnet is interested in monitoring the land transactions and how they are affecting the livelihoods of rural people more especially women; compensation and resettlement of people due to large scale land investments or grabbing; the Land Governance Assessment Framework will be used 3. Awareness building on the land policy and land related laws 4. Strengthen coordination and collaboration amongst partners in the land policy reform process

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The goals of this project are to implement several of the highest priority..actions identified in the Prairie to Pampas Grassland Bird Conservation Business Plan...We propose to 1) to engage local land owners and managers with life-cycle data of individual..Bobolinks breeding on their property; this interaction will result in changes in land management..that rebalance farming and grassland bird needs; 2) to assess the annual life-cycle of individual..Bobolinks by collecting data both while on the breeding grounds and through tracking devices..for the entire annual cycle; and 3) to use a community-based approach integrating the..Audubon volunteers and undergraduate students in collecting and disseminating these data; 4)..establish a network of partners in South America with which to share information gained from..this work.

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The Eastern Gangetic Plains is one of the most densely populated, poverty stricken belts in South Asia. Behind this persisting poverty are deeply entrenched social structures of class and caste, with a high incidence of inequitable landlord-tenant relations. This is combined with poor access to irrigation water in the dry season, limited irrigation capacity and low agricultural innovation. The overall aim of the project is to improve the livelihood of woman, marginal and tenant farmers through improved water use and increased dry season agricultural production. Specific objectives are to determine: existing water resources and sustainable utilisation for irrigation from tanks and groundwater; the socio-economic, structural and institutional constraints to sustainable water use; and evaluate approaches for access to water for irrigation focusing on using renewable technologies and alternate approaches to land tenure and their impact on livelihoods and resilience.