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Displaying 1486 - 1490 of 2116F.a: Safeguarding Biocultural Rights of the Hunter Gatherer communities in Kenya
General
Hunter-gatherer communities in Kenya have constantly and gradually continued to lose their habitat to logging and clearing for agriculture, and development of extractive industries and have been evicted in the name of conservation. In addition, indigenous lands have been taken over by outside communities on the basis of their own needs. For this project, these mentioned challenges face both the Ogiek of the Mau forest, the Yiakus of the Mukogodo forest and the Sengwers of the Embobut forest. These communiti es have joined forces and are working to advance the rights of hunter-gatherers locally, nationally and internationally. The proposed project seeks to restore the communities' land tenure rights and the protection of biodiversity through development of C ommunity Biocultural Protocols (BCPs). These protocols establish cultural structures, management systems and practices based on the communities' traditional knowledge, territories and natural resources, and assess the related challenges they face. Dialogue s will be organized with the government representatives to highlight the activities of the project and to seek recognition of the land tenure rights of the communities and to promote the protection of biodiversity also as a basis for the sustainable liveli hood of the communities. The aim is also to engage young people in restoration of lost biodiversity through tree planting. In the case of Yiaku and Sengwer, these are their first biocultural protocols, and in the case of Ogiek, this would be an update to the protocol from five years back in the light of changed context and new needs. Biocultural protocols will be produced in written form and printed for each community for use by them and other relevant stakeholders. The project is estimated to have abou t 10,000 direct beneficiaries (Ogieks, Sengwers and Yiakus), about half of whom are women. The legal holder of the project would be OPDP (Ogiek Peoples ?Development Program). Two other organizations acting on behalf of Kenya's hunter-gatherer communities are also central to this project: the Yiaku Laikipia Trust (YLT) and the Sengwer Indigenous People Program (SIPP). Information on their activities can be found e.g. from here: www.ogiekpeoples.org, https://www.yiakulaikipiaktrust.org/, https://www.cbd.in t/traditional/presentations/africa-sengwer-2016.pdf + https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11911
AACJ-Ethiopia
General
The AACJ programme will be implemented in eight African countries: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia and South Africa. The AACJ consortium believes that building strong and inclusive movements for climate justice in these countries can be the engine for a powerful pan-African movement for climate justice. For the AACJ consortium, climate justice means all people have the right to live a decent and dignified life in a healthy environment. We believe that curbing climate change and enabling all people to build resilience and recover from climate-related shocks is key to break the vicious cycle of inequality and vulnerability. The impacts of climate change are not being borne equally or fairly, between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger generations. The voices of frontline communities who both offer solutions to protect our climate and face the harshest consequences of the immediate impacts of climate change, are excluded from the policy debates shaping their futures. Their voices are often also isolated as opposed to aligned and lack the capacity to come together in unified front calling for action. The goal of our programme is to amplify and unite the voices in Africa demanding that women, youth and local and indigenous communities in the 8 target countries can defend and realize their human rights and live a decent and dignified life in a healthy and sustainable environment, within the context of the climate emergency. We will not only respond to power asymmetries within countries, but also challenge asymmetries of power between countries. We will connect with movements outside Africa, such as Climate Action Network Europe, jointly challenging unaccountable governments and unsustainable production and consumption patterns. Making these connections will help increase solidarity across communities and make the global climate movement more inclusive and legitimate. We will work from local to regional to global level, and vice versa. We will amplify local voices – communicating both struggles and positive experiences – to advocate for strong climate policies and national laws, and demand and monitor their implementation. We will use progressive frameworks, such as the Paris Agreement, the Africa 2063 Agenda and the SDGs to influence national governments and companies for positive changes in people’s lives The AACJ consortium believes that clear and compelling narratives play a crucial to increase the engagement of youth, women and local and indigenous communities in the debate and policy processes on climate justice. Taking people’s lived experience as a starting point, these narratives will play a key role in raising awareness, unveiling prejudices and stereotypes, debunking lies and rebalancing relations of power. The AACJ consortium will amplify African voices, encouraging environmental activists, indigenous leaders, women, youth, religious leaders, artists and opinion makers to share their personal experiences and contribution to addressing climate change. We will create safe spaces for traditionally sidelined groups to develop their own narratives which demonstrate their strength, resilience, innovative capacities and contributions to the climate crisis. We will ensure that these new narratives are shared and spread through climate debates and policy processes, connecting policy makers with people on the frontline of the climate crisis. With will connect activists, movements and communities with popular media (TV talk shows, radio call-ins and other interactive platforms) to enable exchange of ideas and information, foster understanding and increase public awareness on how women, youth and local and indigenous communities are experiencing and coping with climate change. The role of FEMNET will be indispensable to implementing Pathway 2 by creating counter narratives to help shift the discourse on changing the discourse on climate change
Objectives
The programme will contribute to the following impact areas Impact Outcome 1: Empowered indigenous and local communities and CSOs will provide a strong grassroots foundation to build national movements promoting and advocating for climate justice and community driven climate narratives. The AACJ consortium in Ethiopia will work with broad networks of local organizations to conduct regular outreach activities aimed at disadvantaged communities and empower community members, especially youth, to take up leadership roles (pathway 1). The consortium will create common understanding on influencing goals amongst more than 100 CSOs, and create new platforms for existing and new women-led alliances to jointly run popular campaigns to advocate for climate justice on national, regional and international level. The consortium will create awareness and space for disadvantaged communities to voice their views on climate change solutions and support community groups to create new climate justice narratives (pathway 2). Such narratives will be taken up by activists, journalists and influencers (including athletes and artists) and inform public campaigns, mobilizing support for gender-sensitive and inclusive adaptation solutions and realizing the NAP Impact Outcome 2: Improved mechanisms for the participation of vulnerable groups, allow indigenous and local communities and CSOs to engage effectively with climate decision-makers at national and sub-national level to develop policies and adaptation plans and claim environmental and social rights. Local and national policies and frameworks for climate justice are developed and implemented. The consortium will support community members, especially women, in understanding their rights under national and international legal frameworks (Pathway 3). Affected communities and individuals will be supported to securing land tenure and use of traditional lands. Strategic litigation will be used to challenge unjust policies and practices. The AACJ consortium will develop a monitoring framework to increase scrutiny over enforcement of environmental and land rights in Ethiopia. The consortium will establish new platforms and spaces and empower communities to engage in policy and legal reforms, engaging traditionally excluded communities (women, youth, indigenous communities). The consortium will facilitate joint CSO strategy and advocacy plans and build CSO and community capacity to engage with national and regional authorities to influence Ethiopia’s NAP and NDC- increasing inclusion, climate finance and aligning climate and development plans (Pathway 5). Recognizing the legacy of restricted civic space in Ethiopia, the consortium will create mechanisms to report and engage key stakeholders on civil, political and economic rights. The consortium will also increase capacity of frontline communities to use new ICT-based methodologies for community-driven climate action, facilitate community exchanges on innovative community-driven adaptation plans and models, and support multi-stakeholder dialogues with public and private sector to scale up emerging best practices and inform advocacy strategies (pathway 4). Lessons from national policy engagement and legal advocacy will further equip Ethiopian CSOs and representatives of youth, women and indigenous communities to take part in regional bodies (ICAD, AU) and global policy platforms around the Paris Agreement
Target Groups
FEMNET will work with her partner and member-Union of Ethiopian Women and Children Associations (UEWCA, a is a non-governmental, nonpartisan consortium of 80 women- and children-focused CSOs. We will work with women, youth and local communities – as well as other traditionally sidelined groups, such as people with disabilities
Conservation Action for Bicknells Thrush on Canadian breeding grounds III PP
General
Approximately 38 percent of the global population of Bicknells Thrush breeds in eastern Canada. This project will improve conservation for the Bicknells Thrush in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick by addressing habitat destruction, degradation and loss on the breeding grounds, focusing on industrial forest and other unprotected areas. The grantee will partner with timber companies and land management agencies to develop and implement Best Management Practices, and conduct targeted outreach in communities surrounding unprotected areas to secure long-term support for and protection of Bicknells Thrush.
GLA 2 - Democratic Republic of Congo
Objectives
Efforts in Liberia will be on effective implementation of the country’s progressive land legislation taking advantage of the opportunities it presents for further securing Customary Land rights through formalization. This will strengthen community ownership and control over their Customary Land and enable them to enjoy the full ‘bundle of rights’ including the right to access, use, transfer and (most importantly) exclude oncommunity members including agribusinesses and logging companies from enjoyment of these rights. Formalized land and forest ownership will empower local communities to develop local policies, laws, norms and practices that address factors contributing to climate change, including deforestation and conversion, protect and advance human rights, and safeguard local livelihoods. A second focus will be improved national policy and legal frameworks on agriculture, improved corporate policies and practices, and EHRDs and Local Communities’ use of existing complaints and grievance mechanisms. This will aim to reduce external pressure from harmful investments on Local Communities lands and forests by holding corporations and financiers to account.
GLA - worldwide (Agro-commodities program)
General
A series of comprehensive studies in recent years emphasized the dominant role of commercial agriculture, notably soy and palm oil, in tropical deforestation. Indonesia and Malaysia dominate the international market for palm oil but might be experiencing problems to grow the operations further because of high production costs and lower availability of land. This explains increased investments in low-cost frontiers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin-America, including Nigeria, Colombia, Peru, Liberia and Cameroon, amongst others. Soy production is still on the increase in Latin America, and now takes up a large part of total cropland in Latin America: Bolivia 36%, Brazil 42%, Paraguay 55%, and Argentina 54%. Global demand for palm oil is growing, with for example a sharp rise in the EU for palm oil based biodiesel. Soy production in Latin America has grown 300% from 1999-2013. Due to the many negative impacts on water, food security, climate change, livelihood, human rights, land rights and biodiversity, associated with commercial agriculture and the resulting deforestation, the GLA program will work to mitigate impacts, improve operations towards sustainable levels and halt the expansion of palm oil and soy plantations through national and international lobby.
Objectives
The agro-commodities program focuses on international lobbying goals that complement national GLA agrocommodity lobbying strategies. It will support national lobby strategies by bringing local cases and interests to the attention of the international press and politics. In addition, the program will facilitate South-South and South-North learning, capacity building and knowledge sharing. At the national level, the alliance works towards improved (implementation of) national policies and laws that conform to international standards and agreements. Where applicable, the alliance will work on the better uptake and implementation of safeguards in palm oil and soy value chains, responsible production and consumption, and on halting the expansion of palm oil production that leads to deforestation. The GLA supports the protection of rights of people whose rights have been violated. The program will focus on international public sector policies within the EU and the UN. In the EU for instance on the Finance Regulation, binding measures in the EU Deforestation Action plan, the 2030 EU Climate & Energy package and the Renewable Energy Directive (to stop the use of palm oil and other agricultural crops for biofuels from 2021 onwards). The alliance aims to achieve regulation of the financial sector to eliminate land grabbing and deforestation for agro-commodity expansion. It will also stimulate the uptake of best practice standards in palm oil and soy and policy support to that purpose. In the 5-year agro-commodities program, the alliance will support CSOs in palm oil and soy producing countries in increasing their knowledge and skills related to international policy processes, lobbying, case work and policy analysis. In addition, CSO partners will actively cooperate with and empower local communities to monitor local developments and advocate for their rights.
Other
The EU carries out an ambitious Action Plan to foreclose deforestation products on its market, including binding measures for trade and rules for the financial sector: TBI will develop its strategy to contribute to the emerging EU deforestation action plan discussions based on its country-level experiences. Part of the efforts will be to use channels in the Netherlands (bossenoverleg, IMWO convenant) to table this among CSOs and partner in the Netherlands. *More uptake and policy support for best practices, including conservation measures and social, environmental and corporate integrity safeguards within the actual bulk trade chains of palm oil and soy: TBI will develop one case study based on GLA experiences on oil palm in Indonesia to be presented in relevant events at the EU level. We will collect and analyse empirical evidence related to the implementation of the HCV approach and RSPO criteria (with a focus on Indonesia), and use this data to inform international-level decision-making. We will collate practical level information about zero-deforestation experiences from across the globe and publish it in an ETFRN news and policy brief. These will be presented at the EU meeting on ‘Tackling illegal logging and deforestation: progress made and opportunities for future action’ in Brussels in June *Policy makers and opinion leaders have gained knowledge on alternative models (for food and fuel, and for development) which information was gathered and distributed by the CSOs: TBI will design a an approach for CSOs in the GLA countries to participate in a visioning process for alternative (sustainable, climate-smart) development of agro-commodity landscapes. In 2017 the emphasis will be on the process design and on a series of sessions in the Netherlands and Indonesia to start this off.