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Promoting the Right to Food and Land Rights in Sierra Leone, continuation
General
Advocacy und Sensibilisierung zu Recht auf Nahrung und zu Landfragen, Fortführung
Objectives
Advocacy und Sensibilisierung zu Recht auf Nahrung und zu Landfragen, Fortführung
COT_VNG_Projet Foncier Local
General
The Economic Governance and Growth Support Program (PAGEC) was initiated to strengthen the macroeconomic framework in Côte d'Ivoire through strengthening the efficiency and transparency of public finance management. It is a one-time budget support program over the 2017-2018 period that will help maintain the stability of the macroeconomic framework by absorbing part of the country's financing gap in 2017. The PAGEC will consolidate and expand the structural reforms undertaken in recent years to improve public financial management and promote strong, diversified and inclusive growth. In addition, it will support actions which improve the business climate and support reforms to enhance tenure security and governance of the cocoa sector. The overall cost of the program is estimated at UA 156,815,000 for a total duration of 12 months. The two components of the program are (i) enhancing the efficiency and transparency of public financial management; and (ii) diversification of the sources of growth of the Ivorian economy.
Objectives
The overall objective of the program is to strengthen the effectiveness of public financial management and maintain sustained and inclusive growth. The specific objective of the program is to enhance the efficiency and transparency of public financial management and to consolidate strong, diversified and inclusive growth.
Target Groups
The PAGEC is a program that will benefit all Ivorian populations.
RCUK-CIAT Newton Fund Towards BIO-smart livestock farming in Colombia: cultural landscapes, silvo-pastoral sys
General
Colombia is the second most biodiverse country in the world with a rural population of small-holder, low income farmers. As the demand for meat and dairy increases, livestock farming continues to expand onto land that is not apt for farming, causing environmental damage through forest clearance, loss of biodiversity and land degradation. Different national initiatives aim to encourage more sustainable farming that support farmers' livelihoods, and protect the environment and its rich biodiversity. Silvo-pastoral farming is one of those initiatives as it combines forestry and grazing. The international Centre for Tropical Agriculture CIAT runs two interrelated projects, "Livestock Plus" and "Sustainable Amazon Landscapes" to encourage the adoption of silvo-pastoral farming. However, farmers find silvo-pastoral farming changes the landscape of their farm in ways that conflict with their ideas of what 'a good farm' should look. These social factors, in combination with possible economic and agronomic influences, may limit the uptake of sustainable silvo-pastoral practices. This interdisciplinary project brings together cultural geography, environmental economics and agricultural ecology to investigate the cultural and socio-economic reasons for low adoption of silvo-pastoral livestock farming practices that have been designed to protect and restore biodiversity in Colombia. It will also quantify the benefits of silvo-pastoral farming for plant and insect biodiversity, both for their intrinsic value but also the contribution it may make to support long-term sustainable production. In doing so, this research will provide evidence to underpin effective policy that allows intensification of livestock farming while supporting environmental priorities. This may encourage farmers to adopt more sustainable and biodiversity enhancing silvo-pastoral systems.
Objectives
The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Norson II Project
General
Norson Holdings, S. de R.L. de C.V. (Norson or the Company), an existing IFC client, is one of the largest integrated pork producers and processors in Mexico. Norson is a good portfolio client with a key global strategic partner (Smithfield) which plays an active role in the Companys operations. The project will expand and upgrade operations of Norson. The project includes (i) expanding Norson's production capacity, (ii) developing the required new farms for capacity expansion and adapting some of the existing facilities, (iii) increasing slaughtering capacity at the processing plant, (iv) increasing its feed mill capacity; and (v) installing plastic liners at the waste lagoons.
Objectives
(i) Reorganizing and increasing the Company's production system and debottlenecking pig production to improve biosecurity, animal welfare, management of sanitary conditions, and labor efficiency. (ii) Increasing land productivity. The lands for developing the new farms are currently sub utilized or not developed. The new facilities will be a sustainable and financially sound way to procure a correct use of natural resources. (iii) Employment generation primarily in rural areas and for women (currently 44% of its total workforce). (iv) Increasing the availability of pork meat and value added products in the local and international markets.
Rehabilitation and provision of productive assets and inputs for farmers in Area C, suffering from the occupat
Objectives
The project is an HRP 2020 endorsed project that will contribute to the HRP strategic objectives 2 and 3, the HF allocation strategy objective 1 for the West Bank under the normal track and the Food Security cluster objective in the WB. It will do so by Rehabilitation and provision of productive assets and inputs for farmers owns lands in Area C located in 3 villages in Tulkarem governorates who face specific challenges to cultivate their lands due to different measures imposed by the occupation regime including settler violence, demolition, confiscation, the wall, etc. The project is based on a needs assessment conducted by PUI and UAWC in September 2020 that identified the most pressing needs of vulnerable farmers working in area C close to the wall or settlements. In addition, PUI coordinated with FSS, MoA Central and MoA directorates of Qalqilya and Tulkarem, in order to identify and prioritize FSS needs and localities in these 2 governorates. In order to respond to the identified needs and to contribute to the HRP, HF and cluster objectives of this second allocation, PUI and UAWC will provide 2 types of assistance: - Provide1.5 kilometer of water carrier lines to ensure the delivery of water from the resources to the agricultural lands. The support will include the delivery of water carrier lines while the Village Council will contribute to provide additional inputs for the success of this activity. This activity will reach to 80 farmers in total. - Support 120 vulnerable farmers working in lands adjacent to the settlements or the wall and whose livelihoods are threatened by occupation measures. Agricultural roads will be rehabilitated (4 km), which will increase a safe access to lands and contribute to preventing land confiscations. Additional 10 farmers will receive land rehabilitation support to increase their production capacity. The project will also provide cisterns to other 3 farmers to enhance the supplementary irrigation to trees and crops in their lands In total, 213 farmers households (1022 individuals) will benefit directly from the Action. Selection criteria for those farmers will depend mainly on the socio-economic vulnerability criteria. It will look also on technical criteria including topography of the land, slope percentage, soil depth, land ownership, and planted trees (in addition to protection considerations, including IHL violations, close to settlement, the wall, and access restricted areas). The project will be implemented in partnership with UAWC and each organization will bring their expertise to the partnership: UAWC supporting agriculture from a development perspective focusing on water activities and PUI rehabilitating lands and assets, easing access and providing support to farmers with a protection lens through emergency and protective responses to settler-related incidents. Furthermore, the project will complement the Action of the West Bank Protection Consortium by covering a need gap in the provision of assistance and livelihood support to vulnerable farmers in Area C. Besides, PUI will mobilize its Consortium experience (tools, methodology, network) to be operational at different stages of the project.
Protection of newly drought displaced IDPs through provision of emergency shelter and NFI kits and setup of ge
Objectives
The objective of this project is to protect newly drought displaced IDPs through provision of reduced and combined emergency shelter and NFI kits. The project will set-up camp management committees and train their members in humanitarian principles and approaches for self-management by IDPs of the new camps in K7-K20 along Afgooye Road in Banadir region. The project tries to respond to urgent humanitarian needs with insufficient financial means provided by the SHF. This project will provide restricted and flexible vouchers that shall be redeemed with emergency shelter and NFI kits to the newly drought displaced IDPs. The vouchers are at a reduced value as compared with the shelter cluster standards due to funding constraints. A list of shelter and NFI items from which the beneficiaries can choose from using the flexible voucher shall be provided. The beneficiaries are flexible to choose from these items based on their priority needs up to the ceiling amount of the voucher. By experience, women prefer different items than men that suit better their special needs, e.g. for privacy. The project shall also establish 15 gender balanced camp management committees in new settlements within the larger IDP camps and train their members in camp management skills and approaches in humanitarian aid. Especially women that head households will be encouraged to represent their interests in the committees. Committee members will take an initial five-day training course and will then receive "on-the-job" assistance and support from the community mobilization workers. Each of the committees will then receive a tool kit for improving drainage channels and cleaning the camps. The role of these committees shall include the following among others: enhance formalization of the spontaneous settlement, provide recognized leadership to the new IDP communities and to represent the IDP communities towards local authorities and formal humanitarian actors, assist in selection of beneficiaries, reporting new evictions, settlement planning, maintaining camp cleanliness, negotiating with local authorities, land lords and IDPs to demarcate public spaces, roads and firebreaks, conflict prevention and mediation. This structure can transit into formal administration through local authorities when they come into effect. They shall integrate all informal leader of the communities including elements that have usually conflicting interests with the potential of violence against individuals or groups. Social control within the committees shall contribute to the containment of oppressive elements. Lack of land tenure and durable solutions for displaced populations has created a situation in which governments or land lords forcibly evict IDP communities, especially in down-town Mogadishu and also in K7 - K8 along the Afgooye corridor. Such processes usually involve significantly human rights violations. The committees shall negotiate with the local authorities and land lords on behalf of the communities to have improved land tenure security. The proposed SHF project will compliment two other projects currently running in the K7-K20 IDP camps and implemented by DKH through its local partner DBG. DKH is targeting 1,140 newly displaced IDP households in K7-K20 camps with shelter, NFI and 3 months’ partly rations of food through flexible vouchers. That project is funded by the German Bureau of Foreign Affairs (AA). Secondly, DKH through means from the German Federal Ministry for Economy and Cooperation (BMZ) has established and trained 10 camp management committees to help increase the effectiveness of humanitarian aid and improve settlement planning within the camps with tangible success.
South Sudan - SE cluster -Strengthening the Livelihoods Resilience of Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Communities
General
The proposed intervention will be implemented in Budi, Kapoeta East and Kapoeta Counties of Eastern Equatoria State as grouped by FAO under Lot 2/LoA 2 of the South East cluster. These counties are characterised by semi-arid land conditions, limited access to water resources for livestock and human consumption, frequent and extended dry spell, local and cross border inter-communal clashes, pressure of IDPs and returning population and eroded livelihood opportunities. Majority of households in these counties depend on livestock and livestock trade as the main source of livelihood with a few practicing subsistence farming. However, livestock trade is hindered by prevailing insecurity along the major road to Juba, which traditionally has been the main trade route. During the seasonal food-gap period, grain is acquired through livestock exchange complemented by wild food. In addition, the area is characterized by poor or limited agricultural practices, poor range land management and limited government capacity to provide services and coordinate resources. For example, in Kapoeta East there is no sustainable water source in the entire community and several attempts to drilling boreholes have failed in the past. The whole community migrate to Boma and Turkana during dry season in search of water, which has led to a bloody conflict with the neighbouring community and the abduction of children. Drought, conflicts and food insecurity are major hazards in the areas and exposed the community to serious threats (Cordaid, 2015 PDRA). The severe drought of 2016/2017 in the greater Kapoeta affected large areas of Kapoeta South, Kapoeta East and Budi. It manifested in loss of lives, deteriorated health conditions, outbreak of communicable diseases, loss of livelihoods, destitution and resource-based conflicts. The September 2017 IPC food insecurity analysis confirmed that 61% of Eastern Equatoria State is under crisis emergency and humanitarian catastrophe, concentrated in the Kapoeta areas. Given the food insecurity and nutrition situation during 2017, continued conflict, climatic shocks such as drought and macro-economic instability leading up to the 2018 lean season, it is likely that the humanitarian catastrophe in parts of Greater Kapoeta will increase.
Objectives
Overall objective: To improve households’ food security, nutrition and income and enhance livelihood resilience of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Kapoeta East, Kapoeta South and Budi Counties of South Sudan. Specific objectives: - Pastoral and agro-pastoral food security and nutrition and early warning information systems strengthened in South Sudan and its border areas to improve regional and national policy and response capacity. - Trans-boundary Animal Disease (TAD) prevention, detection and control measures in South Sudan border areas strengthened and harmonised. - Diversification of agro-pastoral livelihoods enhanced and access to livestock markets improved - Natural resources management (NRM) practices in cross-border areas improved on a sustainable basis
Target Groups
A total of 20,000 (female: 10,200, male: 9,800) most vulnerable women, men, boys and girls in the target counties will directly benefit from the project. 16 payams will be covered
HO-503001
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Land Rights Now is an international alliance campaign to secure indigenous and community land rights everywhere, by developing local to global campaigns that engage the public - raising awareness of the link between secure land rights, climate change, and food systems - and mobilizing them to exercise pressure on Governments to secure collective land rights. To deepen the connection between Land Rights Now and the climate justice movement, LRN is developing a new campaign on securing land rights, defending indigenous rights, and confronting the climate crisis; identifying local and national campaigns led by both land and climate activists, and broadening our alliances with international climate justice movements and feminist organizations to develop common campaigns around key international summits. The service provided is to ensure the coordination of the Land Rights Now campaign from December 2022 to February 2023.The key focus of coordination is to provide support to national campaigns, communicationslearning, and facilitating coordination of other participating organizations’ efforts and outreach to new allies, especially youth- and women-led movements on climate justice. The campaign is co-convened by Oxfam and the International Land Coalition and has an Advisory Board who review plans and provide guidance. The coordination is hosted by Oxfam.
PIMS6394 PPG Land Use Planning
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Establishing systems for sustainable integrated land-use planning across New-Britain Island in Papua New Guinea
CO- Oxam Novib
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The overall objective of this project is to contribute to the empowerment of local Oxfam partners in the sound management of ecosystems and resilience to the effects of climate change.Land degradation and the persistent decline in fertility of already poor and acidic soils are the main obstacles to agricultural productivity in Burundi. The high population density and the high rate of demographic growth (over 3% / year; Population projections 2010-2050 National and Provincial Level, ISTEEBU; April 2017) exert enormous pressure on the use of cultivable land. This pressure is all the stronger as agriculture remains the main occupation of the majority of the Burundian population, cultivating small plots (0.5 ha / family), which cover about 50% of the territory. Climate change is worsening the situation as Burundi's capacity to cope with climate shocks remains extremely low.In addition, the high demographics of thepopulation lead to reduced soil fertility through overexploitation of existing agricultural areas and increased use of marginal land for agriculture, in addition to deforestation and loss of biodiversity. The lack of adequate management of soil fertility at the family farm scale and at the landscape scale favors the maintenance of the vicious circle of land degradation with the consequent drop in productivity. agriculture, farmers' incomes and food and nutrition security of farm households.The main implementing partners of the project are: Oxfam in Burundi and its local partners who have a perfect understanding of the challenges and possibilities of Burundian agriculture thanks to their strong involvement in the agricultural sector, both scientific and practical. scale of the individual family farm, group, IGG (mutual aid and solidarity groups) and/ or cooperative.This project will focus its actions on the empowerment of local partners so that they can scale the achievements of the PRCCRCC project of the 1st phase by basing itself above all on the hill community visions developed in collaboration with the beneficiaries as well as actions linked to agroecology on familyfarms. The focus will be on three sectors: ecological agriculture (choice of agricultural inputs, cultivation techniques, post-harvest techniques, packaging and marketing), energy and the political framework. Ecological agriculture: the project will focus on theuse of organic matter, biofertilizers, bio pesticides to increase family production, erosion control through soil protection and agroforestry systems; valorization of biomass and increase of soil fertility; intensification of peasant food crops and promotion of cover crops resilient to climate change, development of short-cycle varieties, reduction of the use of synthetic agricultural inputs;reduction of losses and runoff of rain and residual water as well as optimization of its use for agricultural purposes. Energy: this involves the promotion of improved mobile and fixed wood and charcoal stoves, as well as action research on other technologies and the use of other energy sources. Political framework: this mainly involves improving communication through information, training and research and development to strengthen the capacities of stakeholders at all levels in taking into account the effects of climate change and promoting agroecology at the central (public policies, sector strategies, etc.) and local (communities, local communitydevelopment plans, communities, etc.) level, based on the popularization of the advances already made (establishment of a legal framework, institutional framework, the various tools and structures, etc.). The project will also work in participatory action research to find with the beneficiaries mechanisms, technologies and other tools that can be valued at the local level to mitigate the effects of climate change on households and the promotion of agroecology. These mechanisms will focus on agroecology, energy, water management and organic products. Indeed, it has been observed that mechanisms aiming at resilience have been developed in certain cases to counter the possible effects of climate change (seed stock, staggered sowing, commercial breeding, etc.) but the field of investigation remains quite wide. especially with regard to water management, maintenance of soil fertility.