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Promoting Well Being of Indigenous People in Roraima
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IEB will work with the Nature and Culture International (NCI) and the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR) to improve territorial governance and environmental management of Indigenous Lands in Roraima and develop a sustainable cattle production chain to improve indigenous' income while conserving their territories, reducing illegal and unsustainable practices currently occurring. Activities are focused on developing and implementing territory-wide Environmental and Management Plans (PGTAs) in the entire Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land (1.7 million hectares). Benefited people include: Wapichana Macuxi, Sapar, Taurepang, Ingarik, Wai-Wai and Patamona
Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) 2013-2017 - Rights and Resources Initative (RRI) 2013-2017
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Rights & Resources Initiative (RRI) is a global coalition of org.s working to encourage forest land tenure, policy and economic reforms so that business reflects local development agendas and supports local livelihoods. RRI works at the country, regional and global levels, collaborating on research, advocacy and convening strategic actors. Agreement partner is Rights & Resources Group (RRG). Clear and secure land tenure for local communities is an important precondition for several aspects of development, including sustainable use of natural resources, including decreased or avoided deforestation, increased resilience, economic development and enhancement of human rights and democratic societies. Special attention to securing women’s rights is part of the intervention's design.
Objectives
Improved governance of forest areas in developing countries for poverty reduction, biodiversity conservation and climate resilience.
Land administration Colombia
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The aim of this project is capacity development in land administration in Colombia. The project is being carried out by Dienst voor het Kadaster en de openbare registers.
Improving yields and quality standards in the Sierra Leonean cocoa sector
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Theobroma International B.V. (est. 1922 - an international cocoa trader) and Balmed Holdings Ltd., Commodities Trading Company Limited and Capitol Trading Company (SL) Ltd. (all three cocoa buyers), aim to act upon the business opportunity of exporting certified cocoa from Sierra Leone.In Sierra Leone, most of the cocoa farms are old and overgrown and need good maintenance and investment in younger trees to improve productivity. As many youngsters have fled to urban areas there is a labour shortage of young adults to properly rehabilitate and maintain the farms necessary for a sustainable income. As a result yields are as low as 150 kg per hectare (compared to potential yields of 800 kg per hectare) and quality of the cocoa is low due to bad drying and fermentation methods.The project aims to provide a solution to improve both quality and quantity of Sierra Leonean cocoa by introducing the 'Block Farming model' in the Eastern Province.In this concept, the new joint venture will lease fallow land from land owners for cocoa plantations on which youth groups carry out the work and receive trainings so they will be able to take over management of the plantations after eight years. The model is set up like a shareholder model where the workers, the land owners and the joint venture each receive 1/3 of the harvest. All cocoa produced on the block farms is sold to the joint venture. In this agroforestry model farmers are also able to do intercropping on the cocoa plantations. The joint venture will provide inputs (seedlings, tools, boots etc) and train the farmers in cultivation techniques, management of a farm and post- harvest techniques. Plantations will be certified (UTZ, Rainforest alliance or Fair trade), assuring the farmers and landowners a higher income.The project will introduce tray fermentation of cocoa to Sierra Leone. Cocoa will grow under an Integrated Pest Management System. A computerised farm-gate based traceability system will be established which provides further opportunities for the upgrading of food safety and accountability systems in the supply chain.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)Land lease is a sensible issue in Sierra Leone. Recently several foreign investors leased large pieces of land for agricultural production. Local NGOs have been criticising some of those large land deals, commenting that the local people were not informed well and not compensated well enough. In the block farming model, partners will have several meetings with the landowners and chiefs of the villages before they sign the land lease documents. The lease will be for a period of 20 years, while the landowners stay the owners of the land and will receive 1/3 of the future profit of the cocoa trees and 10% of the intercropping. After 20 years the landowners can decide whether they want to renew the contract.The UTZ Certified standards, which contain obligatory regulations, controls and measures to eradicate child and forced labour will apply to this project. The agroforestry concept guarantees the conservation of biodiversity.All partners have stated to offer their staff good employment standards and secondary benefits and that no discrimination of job applicants, staff, suppliers or farmers is tolerated.Impact• Employment and working conditionsThe joint venture will employ 56 staff mostly on a full time basis to supervise the block farming activities and to run the processing centres.The staff will receive above average salaries and will work in a clean and safe working environment. Staff will enjoy other benefits such as health insurance, transport to work, clean drinking water. Children of employees will be encouraged to go to school. A medical post on the block farm will provide medical care. Staff will be trained extensively to be able to carry out their tasks, to increase job satisfaction and to improve career perspectives. When necessary adult literacy courses are provided.• Innovation / Transfer of knowledgeThe Block Farming method is a new way of organising and investing in cocoa cultivation in Sierra Leone.• Chain effectsThe project will not supply to local customers nor consumers. Although some processing of cocoa has been initiated in Sierra Leone, in the near future cocoa will stay an export crop.The proposal has made a comparison with average farmers and calculated that a block farmer who is contracted by the project should be able to earn a total net income after 8 years which is triple that of the average farmer in Sierra Leone:The farmer will benefit of higher yields on a larger piece of land he is now able to farm. Besides as quality goes up he will receive a higher price for his cocoa. As the table shows farming income will definitely rise.However, improvement of yields from 200 kg to 800 kg.• Impact on the sectorWhen successful, this project will give an example of how investments in the agricultural sector in Sierra Leone can be done, while working with small farmers (and not adapting the large scale plantations model). The joint venture partners expect that other companies will approach them for assistance to help them implement the block farming model (also in other crops).Some international organisations, such as GIZ and FAO, have showed a great interest in the model.• EnvironmentAn Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) will be conducted for the abandoned agricultural land the joint venture will lease. The joint venture has stated that it will attach great value to promoting sustainable cocoa production, biodiversity, soil fertility and minimised use of agro-chemicals and fertilisers.• Position of womenEqual employment opportunities will apply to both men and women. However due to the nature of the business, it is expected that more men will be contracted. Of the 56 staff positions, 15% is foreseen to be occupied by women.During training activities , the joint venture will also focus on female cocoa growers. Also, female growers will be trained to be lead farmers.• Impact on food safetyThe project directly contributes to food security as the farmers will plant other crops in between the cocoa trees. Those other crops, such as plantain, cassava, fruit trees and coconuts are meant for own consumption or sales on the local market. Farmers and landowners share the income of the intercrop: farmers get 90% and landowners 10% of the intercrop.• Impact on waterThe project will dig three water wells to provide its staff and block farmers with clean drinking water. Community development projects will also involve access to clean drinking water.
Objectives
To set up a joint venture, which will establish a commercial high yield cocoa farm of 1,000 ha. This block farm will include a central collection and storage warehouse and six farmer development centres for drying, fermentation & storage. The farm will em
Land Investment for Transformation UP - LIFT UP
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LIFT UP seeks to bring transformative, systemic and sustainable change in Ethiopia’s land administration and market systems in four regions (Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR)). It will - Improve land policy and planning - to support the development and implementation of inclusive, transparent and fair land proclamations, policies, regulations and procedures, at federal and regional levels and covering both rural and urban areas; - Deliver a sustainable land system - include the certification of 14 million additional parcels and capacity development of the rural and urban land administration system; - Improve social inclusion, dispute resolution and income - for farmers including women and vulnerable groups to translate their land tenure security into higher productivity, empowerment and wellbeing including 1.2 million small-holder farmers increasing their income by at least 15%
World Voices Uganda
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World Voices Uganda is human rights, Access to Justice for the poor and most vulnerable and Peace building not-for-profit organization which started its operations in 2005. World Voices Uganda is part of the World Voices Global with affiliation to WorldVoices Norway and is the only independent chapter in Southern, Eastern and Central Africa. For the last 15 years WVU has developed capacity and niche with the main thrust is in providing legal aid services to the indigent people mainly women, children, PWDs and other vulnerable persons in conflict with the law, promotion of natural resource governance specifically Minerals, oil and gas, land and forestry resources as well as lake resources, promotion and protection of the rights of the marginalized mainly children and women rights, budget analysis and dissemination, Revenue enhancement and management, Tax justice, influencing and advocacy, transparency and accountability, research, youth empowerment through skills development and advocacy as well as peace building, conflict resolution and management. Our aim is to empower marginalized Ugandans and to give them a voice in society to advance their possibilities to exert agency. As echoed in our slogan, WVU is the voice of the voiceless. WVU advocates forconcrete and innovative solutions to injustice, social exclusion, poverty and its intergenerational continuity. World voices Uganda was founded by two then young people of of whom was an investigative Journalist from Uganda while another was a NorwegianSocial Anthropology Researcher named Dr Rune Hjlmar Espeland (PhD). Following their comprehensive research on and coverage of violent ethnic and land conflicts and Human Rights Violations and Injustice especially Gender Based Violence and Child Abuse inthe Albertine region, they came to an Idea of starting an Organisation would make a contribution by providing selfless and innovative approaches to finding a solution. Hence indeed the inception process and ideation kicked started in 2003, while the organisation formation process started in 2004 which eventually saw the actual operation commence officially in 2005. WVU then started with Sports For Peace Project in which sports was used as a tool for addressing ethnic differences in the Albertine and Rwenzori regions, this was followed by the Community Peace Dialogues and Roundtable for the stakeholders addressing issues of peace and then followed by creation of community legal aid clinic which was addressing Gender Based related violations and Child abuse case. WVU has since grown in both programing and operations but also geographically to covermany other parts of Uganda. WVU has of late expanded her scope to cover different Refugee settlements in partnership with OPM. World Voices which started with the development of a one year Strategic Plan in 2006-2007 is currently implementing her fourth strategic plan (2017-2022) World Voices Uganda has undergone strategic growth in terms of governance and organisation policy in which we have seen peacefultransitioning of the Board and formulation and implementation of progressive policies including Gender and safeguarding policies. World Voices is national organisation providing comprehensive programs interventions at community level, sub national and national level of which most of the physical concentration of community interventions are in Western Uganda, part of Central and Northern Uganda. Currently the organsation is running a five year strategic plan with four major core program areas namely; 1)Human Rights and Access to Justice (HRAJ) 2) Peace Building and Conflict mitigation and management (PCM), 3) Governance and Accountability, Research and Knowledge management (GARM), 4) Institutional Support Servicing and Strengthening (ISSS). Vision: A peaceful and just society in which communities are central. Mission: To spur empowerment in influencing policies and programs that equitably and respectfully addresses the needs, peace, justice, rights and freedoms of the most vulnerable persons inUganda. Core values WVU has 5 core values that underlie all actions and guide employees in the organization’s operations. These are; Justice, Transparency, Accountability, Integrity, Cooperation, Team work and Quality Principle objectives Field(s) of activity: What are the principal thematic and geographic areas in which the organisation works? Who are the social actors that benefit from the work? Thematic areas of our work: Describe what you do in each (as relevant) • Livelihoods: World Voices mainly focused on providing support to rural communitiesespecially vulnerable persons such as women, PWD, vulnerable women, boys and girls to access equal opportunities for access to resources for improved livelihood. This has been through awareness drives, provision of livelihood option for the through self-reliance short term vocational skills training at our Another Chance Skills Training Centre. Provide support to microenterprises to become organizationally and economically sustainable. WVU has support rural and urban communities to have access to funds and training to setup their own microenterprise. Younger Professionals’ Mentorship Program WVU connects young professionals to employment opportunities and appropriate training through public-private partnerships. WVU has also been at the forefront of advocating for property rightsespecially for the rights of women and girls on access to land so as to use it to generated a living. • Health: Under Heath, World Voices Uganda focuses on reproductive health rights for women and girls. WVU provides probono access to justice services for the women and girls facing reproductive health rights violations. In addition to provision of free legal services, World Voices conducts community awareness raisingoutreaches and through media to empower the communities to claim their reproductive rights hence save lives. • Protection, Peace building, Social Cohesion: This thematic area is the core niche of World Voices Uganda. Under Protection, World Voices Uganda promotes Human Rights and Access to Justice for the poor and most vulnerable people. This is through various interventions such provision of legal aid to the poor and vulnerable persons, legal rights awareness, legal representation of the marginalised persons, fighting for the rights of women and children. WVU has been at the forefront of fighting for the protection of land rights for the poor and most vulnerable communities in Albertine and Rwenzori including the respect for Business and Human Rightsprinciples. WVU promotes peaceful existence among the communities especially the historical ethnically and armed conflicts affected areas of Rwenzori and Bunyoro regions. WVU promotes community and stakeholder dialogues, innovative peace building initiatives such as Sports and Arts for Peace especially engaging the young people, WVU has also been organising youth engagement ad establishing structures for promoting peace and justice and reduction of radicalisation such establishment of the students leaders associations in the regions and organising debates. WVU has also been organising political debates for candidate at district and parliamentary levels to enable candidates articulate their strategies on how they ought to address issues of conflict and peace building and access to justice agenda with a view of enhancing social cohesion. • Environment and Energy: World Voices has interventions on environmental and climate Justice focusing on mainly respect and protection of environmental rights and conservation. Currently WVU is implementing a DRDIP Project on Integrated Natural Resources Management in Refugee Settlement in five districts to promote environment conservation and address climate change impacts. The project is being implemented in partnership with OPM with support from World bank. The project promotes community Driven approaches in environmental conservation specifically using Intensive Public Works model in undertakingvarious intervention including, Community Tree Panting, Community Wetland Demarcation and restoration, Sand pit mining restoration,Hill top restoration as well as community fish farming and apiary. Under Energy, World Voices Uganda has also a strong niche in Extractive sector governance interventions especially in the area of oil and gas and minerals. WVU has been advocating the extractive revenue transparency and accountability though contextualized research and Advocacy. WVU is also a member of the Multi-Stakeholder Group of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). WVU has also been holding engagements between Project Affected Persons and Hydro Power Dam Projects officials regarding compensation conflicts. • Education: World Voices Uganda focuses on the right to education for all and more especiallythe most vulnerable girls. WVU has interventions on protection of girl child from sharks by providing free legal services to victims of abuse and neglect but also we institate legal proceedings against the perpetrators.
LAND-at-scale Uganda: Scaling up community-based land registration and land use planning on customary land
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Uganda wants to transform from a predominantly low-income agricultural economy to a modern and prosperous country in 2040. Land is widely recognized as a pivotal element of Uganda’s economic and social transformation, as evidenced by the government ambition to improve tenure security, and systematically title all land by 2040. For this purpose, a modern legal framework for land governance has been created. Until now, implementation of the existing law and policy to improve tenure security of customary land in a way that both accessible (low cost), context sensitive and flexible is limited. Meanwhile, the urgency is growing as Uganda’s population is increasing rapidly, creating increasing pressure on land and an associated increasing number of land related disputes. Also, productivity of land in Uganda is lagging and land use needs to become more climate change resilient.Therefore, the project aims to contribute to the development of a structured and scalable approach towards improved tenure security and sustainable land use for men, women and youth on customary land, which is obtained using fit-for-purpose and participatory tools and approaches.The specific objectives are: 1) Improved tenure security for men, women and youth.2) Inclusive, climate smart and sustainable land use planning.3) Improved capacities and awareness of key land stakeholders on customary land registration and land use planning.
Cameroon - Support Project for Modernization of Land Registration and Improvement of the Business Climate
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This operation seeks to grant additional financing of UA 5 million to the Support Project for Modernization of Land Registration and Improvement of the Business Climate (PAMOCCA) in order to extend its activities to other regions of the country and strengthen the sustainability of outcomes. Indeed, PAMOCCA is a pilot project aimed at supporting the Government to strengthen governance in land registration and management through modernization of land registration in four towns, regional headquarters in the country (Yaounde, Douala, Maroua and Garoua) and to revise the land-related legislative, regulatory and institutional framework. This additional loan which will be disbursed over a period of four years (2014-2017), will be used to extend modernization of land registration to six other towns, which are regional headquarters in the country. The loan will also be used to finance a vast capacity building programme in land registration and management through continuing training, as well as create a specialized stream at the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM).
Objectives
PAMOCCA objective is to develop Cameroon’s land capital and help consolidate sustainable growth and reduce poverty. Specifically, this project seeks to consolidate and extend the expected outcomes of PAMOCCA which are as follows: (i) improved access to reliable and secured land titles; (ii) higher tax revenue in towns with reliable and computerized land registration services; and (iii) improved business climate.
Target Groups
The project will benefit the tax administration and MINDAF, active urban communities (UCs), and the private sector in terms of capacity building, resource mobilization and improvement of the business climate, as well as the population in terms of security and improvement of the living environment. The Cameroonian population in general will benefit from the impact of the project through activities aimed at improving access to charges on land and information.
Egypt - National Drainage Programme
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The National Drainage Program is a key part of the government’s Water Resources Development Strategy which seeks to optimize the efficiency of water resource use as well as improve the efficiency of the drainage systems. It should permit to optimize the benefits of irrigation by draining excess irrigation water from agricultural land. The implementation of the programme is expected to result in higher crop yields in the target areas, higher farm incomes, and increased food security and poverty reduction in general. Water logging and the soil salinity can reduce crop productivity by 20-30%. The programme includes three components, namely: (i) construction and rehabilitation of subsurface and surface drainage; (ii) strengthening of the Egyptian Public Authority for Drainage Projects (EPADP) capacity for operation and maintenance; and (iii) project management and institutional development assistance.
Objectives
The principal objectives of this programme are to optimize the benefits of irrigation by draining excess irrigation water from agricultural land in order to reduce water logging and consequent soil salinity, in addition to making more land available for cultivation.
Target Groups
The primary beneficiaries will be the farming households in the project areas. Given the current land tenure in Egypt where the average farm size is one feddan, the primary/target beneficiaries should be approximately 125,000 households or 625,000 people, of which 50% are women. Indirect benefits include the prevention of further deterioration in crop yields if drainage is not improved, decrease of water borne disease incidence, improved rural sanitation, and protection of buildings against damage by the rising water table. Other benefits include an increase in land values after installation of drainage systems; increase in off-farm activities due to increased household income; improved health of households due to reduction of water-borne diseases and better nutrition.
Ghana - Savannah Agriculture Value Chain Development Project (SADEP)
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The Savannah Agriculture Value Chain Development Project (SADP) aims to ensure national food and nutrition security, create employment and contribute to industrialization. The project is expected to contribute to the Government’s industrialization agenda, support PFJ and RFJ, skills development and entrepreneurship for women and youth, and build resilient food systems in the savannah areas of northern and middle belts of Ghana. The proposed project will have three components namely (i) Climate-resilient Production Development, (ii) Sustainable Value Chain Development, and (iii) Project Management.
Objectives
The overall goal of the Project is to ensure national food and nutrition security, create employment and contribute to industrialization. The specific objectives are to increase the climate-resilient production of maize, rice and soybean to support the poultry value chain, generate employment, increase the incomes of farmers and support household nutrition, especially the vulnerable women headed households.
Target Groups
At least 50,000 beneficiaries are expected to participate in the activities of this operation. A key feature of this project is support to “value chain actors” to ensure an integrated production-processing-marketing ecosystem. Target districts were selected for the commercial production of rice, maize and soybean based on the presence of critical mass of commercial farmers with appreciable land size with tenure security, and presence of agriculture mechanization services centre or its equivalent.