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Securing Communal HLP rights in Afghan Cities
Objectives
The proposed action deploys a community-based approach to address HLP needs in Kabul and Herat. The two cities have large numbers of vulnerable people requiring HLP assistance: according to the 2022 HNO, out of a total of 6 million people in HLP need around 1.6 million are in Kabul and Herat. Many of those in need are IDPs and returnees that live in extremely challenging conditions in urban informal settlements. According to REACH’s 2021 survey of informal IDP and returnee settlements, nearly 80 per cent are located in urban and peri-urban areas. Pervasive insecure HLP rights have resulted in frequent threats of eviction for these communities, and constrained humanitarian investments in lifesaving shelter and WASH, because neither communities nor humanitarian agencies can make long-term investments in the absence of secure HLP rights. The fall of the government has brought challenges and opportunities to securing HLP rights that this action directly responds to. A key challenge is that many legal frameworks that support individual ownership, such as the 2018 Land Management Law, are uncertain given the power transition that has occurred. A key opportunity is that many of the impediments to securing HLP rights were associated with the former government, including a reluctance to provide urban land to vulnerable groups and rather allocate it to well-connected individuals To respond to the current context, challenges and opportunities, the proposed project will utilize a community-centered approach to strengthening HLP rights in urban informal IDP and returnee settlements where insecure property rights have resulted in historic threats of eviction and barriers to humanitarian investment. In this way, the following activities will be implemented: 1. Communal land claims of 50,000 IDPs and returnees living in informal settlements in Kabul and Herat are documented and mapped maps are endorsed by Community Development Councils and/or Gozar Assemblies 2 Community-based settlement plans are developed for 6 informal settlements in Kabul and Herat and their priority humanitarian investments to upgrade communal infrastructure are actioned settlement plans and investments are endorsed by Community Development Councils and/or Gozar Assemblies 3 Coordination with community organizations and humanitarian agencies to extend shelter, infrastructure and service investments in informal settlements through development of a strategic plan. The three results will result in the projects key outcome: strengthened communal HLP rights for displaced people. First, documenting the socioeconomic aspects and mapping the spatial attributes of settlements, in coordination with Community Development Councils and/or Gozar Assemblies increases the legitimacy of informal settlements, hence strengthening their communal HLP rights. Developing a new settlement plan and implementing priority investments identified by the community consolidates informal settlements, strengthening communal HLP rights, as well as providing lifesaving essential services (e.g. drainage) to those most in need.
Providing safe drinking water and sanitation facilities for drought affected population and IDPs in Bala-Murgh
Objectives
Badghis province, located in west Afghanistan, is characterized by intense external and internal conflict, with instability from Turkmenistan to the north and along its border with Faryab Province. Due to the limited resources, remoteness and accessibility, most people live in dire poverty. Recent assessment of AHDAA and CA in Badghis shows that 45% people are living under poverty line while 30% are under extreme poverty line, other 15% have only access to their basic livelihood needs (food, shelter, heating means). Only 10% people have average quality life. In May 2015, Jawand, was occupied by Taliban displacing thousands of people, most of whom moved to nearby districts, like Qala-i-Naw and Muqur. Internal land conflicts among different tribes restricts the movement of people. WASH component of the same assessment shows that most people in Muqur and Bala-Murqhab districts use contaminated and inaccessible drinking water due impact of severe drought. IDPs constitute the most vulnerable and marginalized sections in these communities. Children and women have to travel between 1-15 kms to bring drinking water. Majority population have no or limited understanding of their personal and family hygiene. 92% of the assessed communities do not have access to latrines. They use open space for defecation. Assessments clearly indicates those IDP families in targeted communities’ needs potable/drinking water and other WASH facilities. Lack of access to clean drinking water and poor hygiene conditions are the main causes of diarrhea and other water-borne diseases. Proposed intervention will mainly support IDPs (30% of the community population) in 14 targeted villages of Muqur [ Khaja Sorkhakan and Miranzai ha] and Bala-Murghab [Qabchaq ha, Tangi Joy Kar, Akazai ha, Naw Abad,Kaderzai,Jan Dosti, Abful Rauf,Kham Ab, Baranzai,Haji Saleh Khan, Lodin, Kabuliha] to address their identified WASH gaps by: 1) Improving access to safe water, meeting minimum Sphere standards of 15 litres per person per day 2) Increasing number of sanitation facilities 3) Providing hygiene kits 4) Enhancing hygiene knowledge and behavioural practices, to improve the public and individual health of the 5060 IDP amp host communities families residing in target villages. 5) Addressing protection issues. CA and AHDAA’s project will contribute to the ongoing life-saving efforts and reduce high rates of illness and death caused by poor sanitation and lack of potable water. The project will reach 5060 IDP amp host communities’ families (30360 individuals) over next eight months starting from 01-09-2018 with initial coordination with government authorities and introductory steps including identification of most suitable locations and provision of water and sanitation facilities. The project will construct 38 new boreholes and rehabilitate 9 broken ones, install hand 38 pumps and facilitate water trucking (for 2 communities) and will also construct 90 latrines and 90 bathing facilities for most vulnerable people, especially women, elderly and children. CA is a strong believer of inclusion and the localisation agenda - an imperative of the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) 2016. CA in partnership with AHDAA has implemented initiatives around community resilience building, infrastructure development, capacity building. CA is currently mentoring AHDAA under Twinning project, funded by ACBAR and DFID. AHDAA capacity is being built in putting enhanced organizational systems and processes in place.\. In this proposed project CA will be accountable for project design, implementation, financial compliances, co-ordination and reporting and providing technical assistance, guidance and WASH technical expertise.. CA will implement the protection component including training on GBV, formation of peace-Shura and establishing links with local power-structure including Govt. departments
Secure land for populations displaced by natural hazards
Objectives
Increasingly, natural disasters cause population displacement in Afghanistan. Recent examples include the 2018 drought in Herat and this year’s floods in Parwan. Climate change is expected to exacerbate the frequency and severity of natural hazards to increase IDP caseload. In this context, systems for allocating safe land and transitional shelter for climate displaced groups until it is safe to return to their Place of Origin are absent. In the recent Parwan floods, over a thousand displaced families are without durable shelter as authorities have struggled to provide suitable safe land for their settlement. In response, the Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GoIRA) have requested UN-Habitat to support climate displaced populations access climate safe land to increase their climate resilience. The action will support GoIRA to provide 8,500 IDPs access to secure, legally documented land for their permanent safe settlement at a site not vulnerable to natural disasters and that is located in reasonable prximaty to livelhoods and other social and economic services. To this end, the action will undertake the following activities: - Identify land for safe and secure settlement of IDPs displaced by natural disasters: Hazard mapping and site suitability assessment for the safe, secure and sustainable settlement of climate displaced IDPs - Securing land rights associated with the settlement site: topographic survey, clearance of property rights associated with the site entering details into State Land Bank physical demarcation of plot parcels for allocation to IDP families provision of tenure security documents to IDP families - Develop and gazette settlement master plan for sustainable settlement of IDPs - Coordination with government and humanitarian agencies to extend shelter, infrastructure and service investments in the site. Preliminary identification of the vacant land for settlement in partnership with the government has occurred and a document detailing the specifications of this land has been attached in the supplementary documents section. The project timeline of 6 months allows for the completion of all project activities because the ground work for implementation has been completed - staff are in place for the development of materplans, Terms of Reference have been drawn up for required contracted activities, and government cooperation in the implementation of the activities has been secured. The project will provide secure land for the flood displaced. It is envisaged that coordination with other clusters will then provide additional support to households to invest in durable shelter on the site. To this end, the HLP taskforce is currently drafting an advocacy brief with the ES/NFI cluster to mobilize funds for shelter investments in securely held land distributed by the government in Parwan and other locations.
Transforming and scaling up results and lessons learned in the Monte Alen and Rio Campo Landscapes through an
Objectives
To conserve and sustainably manage biodiversity and forest ecosystems in the Monte Alen and Rio Campo landscapes in Equatorial Guinea through an inclusive landscape approach, effective land use planning, enhanced management of protected areas and the promotion of local governance and sustainable livelihood options
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Target Groups
The project will strengthen the land use planning, governance and management frameworks for sustainable forest management across two landscapes that cover more than half of the continental region of Equatorial Guinea. These landscapes are multi-use systems that are essential to the food security and livelihoods of the people who live within them. The ecosystems of the landscapes are vital to residents of the landscapes who rely on them for food production, water, energy and many other services. Over the last decades pressure on the natural resources of the landscapes has been increasing due to human interventions and climate change and variability.Establishing effective land use planning, governance and management systems for sustainable development will provide an improved means for stakeholders to dialogue and develop solutions to increasing pressure on the forest ecosystems. The application of these strategies will contribute to maintaining or improving the values and functions of the lanscapes’ ecosystems, improving their resilience, their ability to supply critical services and their ability to support multiple production systems. In turn this will build the adaptive capacity and resilience of local communities and the broader stakeholder community in the face of growing anthropogenic pressures and climate variability.In addition, the project will improve the capacity and resilience of local communities by developing alternative livelihoods. Without the intervention of this project, unsustainable practices and anthropogenic pressures will continue to negatively impact and degrade the area targeted by this project. These negative impacts will put at risk the ecological and livelihood systems upon which local communities directly depend and will increase the stressors confronting thousands of households across the region. These households will also have reduced flexibility to respond to the impacts of climate change.
Georgia Resilient Agriculture, Irrigation, and Land Project
General
The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to: (a) improve irrigation, and drainage services, and agricultural production in project areas; and (b) strengthen national irrigation and land management institutional capacity for climate resilient planning.
Country Office 505418 Oxfam Novib Pakist
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Oxfam Novib# Lobby and Advocacy Team has decided to invest in programme development, one of the focus this year is on strengtheningOxfam# GROW campaign . An Action Plan was developed in March 2014 # initial work involves different countries in Asia region linking local campaign strategies to national, regional and global campaign strategies of GROW. This global GROW programme will build on on-going GROW national campaigns in Asian countries, the South Asia and Southeast Asia GROW regional campaigns and advocacy work at the international level. A Core Group has been set up to deliver the Action Plan in close coordination with Oxfam Novib Regional Manager for Asia and the head of the Lobby and Advocacy Team. The evolving programme areas are focused on 3 themes (with knowledge management as cross cutting): right to food/food justice, land governance, and climate adaptation. So far, concept notes have been developed already defining the (1) regional (East Asia and South Asia) GROW campaign strategies targeting national governments and regional institutions (ASEAN, Asian Development Bank); (2) global Right to Food influencing work (involving 3 Asian countries), and (3) land governance advocacy in the Mekong Region. The consultant is expected to use these regional programme ideas in helping country and regional Oxfam teams identify local/national to regional/global campaign strategies which is core to her/his task towards designing the global GROW programme framework. This global framework (programme summary/cpncept note) will be used in contacting and exploring partnership with external donors.
Large-scale land transformations in Indonesia: The role of community paralegals in resolving conflicts
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In Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Dayak communities have experienced threats to their livelihoods due to wide-scale and rapid changes in land use over the last ten years. These trends also threaten the sustainable use of natural resources. A new democratic regime in 1998 brought about notable improvements in the legal framework such as recognizing communal land rights, managing forest areas, ensuring sustainable use of natural resources, and facilitating participatory decision-making and equitable negotiations. However, many Indonesians, including the Dayaks, are still largely unable to use the law to defend their interests. This project is implemented in partnership with the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (an affiliate of Friends of the Earth International), the largest and oldest environmental advocacy non-governmental organization in Indonesia. It aims to empower marginalized Dayak communities to obtain remedies for the impacts caused by the operations of companies on common-use lands. This involves engaging with administrative structures, and pressing local governments for more consistent and just implementation, as well as better environmental and social outcomes of state regulation. Traditionally, this role has been filled by community paralegals, who are able to use knowledge of the law and legal processes, familiarity with the local context, and a range of practical strategies to empower communities to protect and enforce their rights under law. The project will recruit, train, and support 24 community paralegals, half of them women, to work alongside communities facing the impacts of unsustainable changes in land use and non-compliance with existing legislation. The activities include education and training, legal counseling and mediation, documentation and mapping, and data analysis and policy recommendations for institutions at the provincial level and at the national Ministry of Environment and Forestry. The objective is to enable the local community, especially women, to navigate legal channels and seek peaceful remedies for fair solutions to land-related conflicts. It will empower them to access remedies offered through legal and regulatory institutions and make government responsive to local community grievances. Establishing relationships with local authorities to advocate for regulatory and institutional changes will help reduce the enforcement gap, strengthen institutional mechanisms for environmental and social protection of the local communities, and enable timely responses to the impacts of large-scale land transformations in Central Kalimantan.
UNIDO: Human security through inclusive socioeconomic development in Upper Egypt
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Sohag is one of the poorest governorates of Upper Egypt, with a total population of some 4.6 million, of which 1.3 million are poor. 250 of its villages are among the 1,000 poorest in Egypt. Poverty in Sohag is essentially structural and multi-dimensional, deriving from lack of adequate public infrastructure, limited private capital accumulation, low levels of investment in human capital and limited pro-poor programmes. The Hayat II Project aims at enabling vulnerable individuals and communities to integrate better into local market systems in order to secure more stable flows of income necessary to satisfy basic needs and wants and, in turn, reduce economic insecurity.
Reducing land degradation and carbon loss from Ethiopia's soils to strengthen livelihoods and resilience (RALe
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Land degradation is a major problem in Ethiopia. Recent estimates put the size of degraded land in Ethiopia at more than one-quarter of the entire country, which affects nearly a third of the population. Land degradation takes many forms and has many different effects, with the most adverse impacts on poor people, who depend heavily on natural resources. Forests, soils, water, biodiversity, and economic and social services derived from the ecosystems are all affected. Climate change and extreme weather events, such as the recent El Niño effect, significantly increase the risk of soil erosion, and losses of soil nutrients. The impact of degradation and measures to restore land are inherently unequally distributed across the population in time and space. Restoring degraded common lands through the establishment of "exclosure" areas where traditional community access is restricted is widely used in Ethiopia. These restrictions particularly affect those without access to other sources of firewood and grazing. Such inequalities and local perceptions of justice need to be taken into account if soil restoration is to be sustainable in the long run. This project aims to improve the design of measures to combat land degradation while considering equity and justice, strengthening risk management and benefits for communities, particularly poor and marginal groups, increasing the capacity of local people to adapt and improve their lives. The project draws on an interdisciplinary approach covering anthropology, agricultural and forestry science, economics, environmental modelling, hydrology, sociology, and soil science. In case study areas within the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region in Ethiopia (SNNPR) covering different agricultural and climatic zones, the project will design interventions with the Ethiopian Bureau of Agriculture to - Train and provide access to exclosures to selected eligible landless youth and women to enable them to undertake new productive activities in 1) beekeeping or 2) livestock management. - Demonstrate and train local farmers in simple measures to address gully formation The research aims to find out the impact of the new interventions on the participants, how the interventions were communicated and promoted within the communities, how they were experienced by different groups, and their impact on preferences and attitudes to natural resource management within the community. The project will collect soil, hydrology and socio-economic data. This will be used with environmental and economic modelling to measure the impacts of the interventions on the direct participants, and preferences for natural resource management in the wider community, and the potential long-term effects on land degradation, thus helping to improve the design local natural resource management. With local and regional practitioners, development agents and representatives of local communities, the project will draw together all the results of the research to develop recommendations for improving frameworks to planning land degradation measures aligned to communities' aspirations, values and notions of justice.
Objectives
The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Low Carbon Solutions through Nature Based Urban Development for Kutaisi City
Objectives
Enable a transformative shift towards sustainable urban development within and outside of Kutaisi City of Georgia by strengthening planning and institutional frameworks, demonstrating and scaling-up investment in integrated low-carbon electric solutions in transport and sustainable land management practices.
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Target Groups
Economics1. The Project will deliver social, economic and environmental benefits as a result of the envisioned technical assistance activities and the demonstration pilots. These include: (a) direct energy savings; (b) mitigated greenhouse gas emission from AFOLU sector; (c) increased efficiency of electric transport mobility and associated costs savings; (d) reduced emissions from transport sector in terms of reduction of atmospheric contaminants in urban area, which reliefs public health risks associated with baseline vehicle emissions; (e) development of innovative businesses contributing to economic growth and job creation; and (f) enhanced quality and user experiences.2. There is not any feasibility study that demonstrates the long-term economic benefits of green urban development or green public transport for Kutaisi. There is a lack of good practices and demonstrations of low carbon urban transportation in Kutaisi. In order for Kutaisi to adopt green urban and green transport development, evidence from demonstrations are needed.3. Moreover, a robust methodology for quantification of indicated socio-economic benefits in Georgia is currently not in place; aspects such as impact on public health and business and employment will expectedly be assessed as inputs for the economic and technical feasibility studies of integrated municipal projects (i.e. green public transport and green urban development) for Kutaisi City that are envisaged to be elaborated under the main outcome 2 of this project. 4. This low emission electric urban transportation pilot initiative has the potential to provide long-term strategic benefit to Kutaisi. This pilot will provide an opportunity for public and private operators to assess the viability of electric buses in routes around Kutaisi and in Georgia more generally (e.g., the round-trip from Kutaisi City Center to Sataplia Nature Reserve is about 20 km. The pilot will include two li-on battery-operated buses and a fast charger at the end stop complemented with low power overnight chargers at the main bus-park which seems the most economical charging combination).Supporting the achievement of global environment benefits (GEF Trust Fund)5. SLM related activities will be undertaken on at least 700 ha of urban forest lands in Kutaisi City. Out of the above 700 ha, restoration activities will cover 220 ha of degraded forest lands, while HCF forest loss will be avoided on the rest 480 ha. 6. Implementation of the Project will contribute to estimated CO2 reduction in total of 3.276 million metric tons of CO2 for a period of 20 years (2024-2044).7. The project will ensure the sustainability and replicability of global environmental benefits in several ways: enhancing the capacity of the national and local authorities to enforce the implementation and demonstrating modern environmentally friendly technologies. Social benefits and Gender 8. To meet the requirements of the GEF Policy on Gender Equality (2017), the Project Gender Action Plan (GAP) will be implemented in accordance with the GEF Policy. The Project will ensure equal opportunities for women and men of Kutaisi municipality to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from the Project. Project activities will be designed and implemented in an inclusive manner. Women's organizations based in Kutaisi will be invited to the consultation meetings.