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Tanzania Land Tenure Support Programme
General
The Tanzania Land Tenure Support Programme, aims at building a basis for resolving the issues that constrain the contribution of the Tanzania's land sector in achieving the country broader development goals. The programme is expected to achieve results that will improve the transparency and efficiency of land governance and administration. In the next three years, the programme shall establish a roadmap for long term support to the land sector that will contribute to implement the revised Strategic Plan for Implementation of Land Laws - SPILL. During the three years period the key focus will be to implement the three major activities : 1. Enhancing transparency and benefits of large scale land deals through providing information on land tenure and possible benefit-sharing models; 2. Policy and institutional development to reach consensus on interpreting and implementing the existing legal and policy framework, clarify institutional roles and mandates, improve institutional interaction and improve dispute settlement procedures; and 3. Land tenure regularization (LTR) in two pilot districts, based on refined, low cost methodology and more accurate information. A Team of International and National Experts will managed the programme, through a Programme implementing Unit with defined guidance from Operational Management Manual.
Objectives
Transparent and accountable land governance and effective land administration systems in Tanzania (Pilot in 3 Districts of Kilombero, Ulanga and Malinyi). -Transparency and benefits of large land deals -Policy and institutional development -Regularisation of land tenure in pilot districts
Leading the Change: Civil Society, Rights and Environment: WWF Cameroon
General
Problem and context description
Cameroon is endowed with rich natural resources. However, human development is low and the poverty rates remain high. Poor governance and lack of livelihood opportunities risk making communities both victims and agents of nature degradation. Rapid deforestation and forest degradation, poaching and illegal trade in wildlife, and a wide range of other social norms and habits are decreasing the possibilities for people to use their surrounding natural resources in a sustainable way to reduce poverty.
The Cameroon land law as well as different sectoral laws give the State the ownership of all lands that were unregistered before 1974 and the resources therein. This undermines the traditional tenure rights which local communities and especially indigenous groups rely on to access forest resources. This is further compounded with the creation of protected areas which restrict, except under agreed conditions, the access and user rights of these communities. Apart from indigenous groups, youth and women/girls are highly affected. Traditional structures overseeing customary and local rules often reinforce gender- and age-based discrimination, and new restrictions and conflicts tend to affect the vulnerable groups the most.
Local community organisations like Village Forest Management Committees play important roles in rural communities, but they do not always have the interest or the capacity for management of forests or protected areas, and restrictions push them into conflicts. There are CBOs and CSOs with high capacity in the targeted programme areas, not least amongst the partners of WWF, and interesting coalitions have been formed during recent years. WWF Cameroon seeks to take this work and these initiatives further and find ways to scale up promising models of sustainable natural resource management and to change policies through effective civil society, youth and indigenous people action.
Programme goals
The desired change is that local communities and indigenous people in Cameroon are effectively exercising their rights (ownership, access and use), controlling decisions and equitably receiving benefits from natural resources, and contributing to the sustainable management of terrestrial ecosystems.
Programme activities
There will be ongoing capacity development to strengthen CSOs and promote their role as advocators for sustainable management and sustainable investments. The supported CSOs will work to empower local rural communities and local committees and enhance their capacity to manage and benefit from natural resources. The support to communities will include for example human-wildlife conflict controls, ecotourism development, wildlife law enforcement and support for sustainable livelihood initiatives to improve food security, promote sustainable agriculture and reduce ecological footprints.
The programme also includes the implementation of a REDD+ mechanism in the Korup area and education on different levels in society to raise awareness on climate issues and resilience. The programme will use the inclusive approaches of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and continue to collaborate with schools to reach the youth.
Objectives
Support to Urban Land Reform Project
General
Die Landbesitzrechte der städtischen Haushalte sind in ausgewählten Pilotgebieten gesichert.
Objectives
Die Landbesitzrechte der städtischen Haushalte sind in ausgewählten Pilotgebieten gesichert.
Stand for Her Land: Collective Advocacy to Realize Women?s Land Rights in Uganda, Senegal, and Ethiopia
General
"Stand for Her Land" - Kampagne für Frauenlandrechte in Uganda, Senegal und Äthiopien
Objectives
Das Ziel des Projekts ist es, den fairen und sicheren Zugang zu Land für Frauen in ländlichen Regionen zu stärken. Das Projekt arbeitet in Ländern mit guten rechtlichen Voraussetzungen im Landbereich, in denen jedoch kulturelle oder systemische Barrieren Frauen am gleichberechtigten Zugang zu Land hindern. Durch Advocacy Arbeit, politische Dialogformate und kapazitätsbildende Maßnahmen soll diese Lücke in drei Ländern geschlossen werden.
Philippines Sustainable Interventions in Biodiversity, Oceans and Landscapes (SIBOL)
General
(Philippines): .The SIBOL activity will address biodiversity threats by improving environmental governance, reducing environmental crimes, and enhancing sustainable development of natural resources. It will improve conservation incentives and science-based conservation and enforcement. SIBOL will enhance protected area (PA) management planning process, and expand PA connection to the national PA system. SIBOL will also update the national forest asset account, support national physical accounts development for fisheries, coral reefs, and carbon, and improve capacity for natural capital accounting. Locally, SIBOL will set up ecosystem service accounts for forests, mangroves, coral reefs, and fisheries, to demonstrate how ecosystem services can inform local policies. SIBOL will also support the economic valuation of damages resulting from Chinese incursion in the West Philippine Sea. ..SIBOL aims to reduce or avoid 1 million tons of CO2e over five years, 10% of this in FY 2022, through low emission zoning and land use planning; mangrove and beach forest development; and small grants that focus on community-based natural climate solutions. SIBOL will also conduct targeted REDD+ roadshows, train PA and DenR staff on forest carbon accounting, and develop a fuelwood certification scheme. ..SIBOL will strengthen the natural resource policy framework and advance environmental, social, and biodiversity safeguards to ensure industry practices promote sustainability, including Department of Trade and Industry certification for local biodiversity-friendly enterprises and its products. SIBOL will also heighten environmental law enforcement by training community and government personnel; promote interagency cooperation through law enforcement summits; and support implementation of medium-term enforcement action plans. Of the earmarked biodiversity and SL funding, $500,000 contributes to the total Adaptation-Indirect control, and $1 million contributes to and surpasses the CWT co
Interpeace - Peacebuilding through reconciliation and inclusive governance
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Interpeace has submitted a concept note to the Embassy of Sweden, that falls under objective three of the current Swedish strategy for cooperation with DRC (2021-2025) concerning Peaceful, inclusive and sustainable societies. It aims for the local, provincial and national authorities in DRC to lead, supervise, and facilitate inclusive peacebuilding processes and promote sustainably. The project will work on the recommendations from the EU-funded study carried out by Interpeace in 2020 in Kasai and Kasai Central to enhance horizontal (between citizens, communities and social groups) and vertical (between the latter and authorities, formal and informal, and at local, provincial and national level), through increased participation, communication, understanding, trust and collaboration. This is only possible if some policies can be improved and don't function as triggers or amplifiers of conflicts. Ongoing analysis will be put in place to reveal discriminatory and non-transparent facts and policies that are dividing factors at the community level and/or between communities and state institutions. To achieve this, Interpeace plans to build on government leadership and ownership to achieve results in a sustainable manner. The larger assumption is that peacebuilding efforts often fail to produce lasting results because they lack the support, involvement and backing of the highest levels of government. This has an impact on the confidence and commitment of stakeholders in peace processes. This means that identifying the reforms and decisions necessary to tackle the drivers of conflict cannot be negotiated. Thus, it is necessary to engage the DRC government in a coherent, constructive and innovative manner in order to contribute to effective governance for peace. Among the concerns that have remained unanswered for a long time are the issue of governance of the security and justice sectors, the securing of land rights by communities, equitable and sustainable access to spaces and natural resources for the promotion of economic development. and social, and the fight against corruption. The project will be implement in 4 provinces, namely Kasaï, Kasaï central, Mai-Ndombe and Kinshasa. It is important to point out that the violent conflict in Kasai and Kasai Central between 2016 and 2018 began with clashes between supporters of a customary chief and the police and then turned into generalized violence between communities, customary chiefs, authorities and law enforcement. The conflict in Yumbi was an intercommunity clash between the Banunu and Batende linked to customary power and land conflicts.
Objectives
The main goal of this project is to stimulate the will, capacity and relations of authorities at all levels to meet the complex challenges of peace in the provinces of Kasaï, Kasaï Central and Yumbi and even in all the DRC. This will set the preconditions for structural changes that must translate into new attitudes and practices of governance for peace. The project is based on an observation that in the current fragile situation - despite this kind of stability, where the interests of the people and the institutions don't match, it will be difficult to ensure the active participation of state actors to invest in participatory governance which is the main guarantee for sustainable peace. This project will focus on the Kasai and Yumbi region, in order to reduce violence in the communities to the state actors but also to support peacebuilding efforts relying on a conflict scan before undertaking any specific initiative in the communities. Through this option, research and analysis, combined with capacity building, will create the building blocks to change governance as a channel of peacebuilding in a more structural way. In addition, the present rulers of the DRC are focusing on the next elections in 2023. The opportunity should be offered to mobilize political actors around the culture of peace and to bring together the authorities, communities and civil society to lay the foundations for peaceful elections. The overall objective of the project is to contribute to strengthened inclusive peace governance by state actors and non-state actors in the DRC, particularly in Kasai, Kasai Central, Mai-Ndombe and at the national level. The specific objectives of this intervention are to: Outcome 1: Increased understanding of peace governance by government and non-government actors ;Outcome 2: Increased capacity for peacebuilding governance among government and non-government actors ;Outcome 3: Enhanced inclusive peace governance at the provincial level ;Outcome 4: Improved framework for peace governance at the national level ;