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MSB Somalia Programme
General
MSB's Somalia programme for the period October 2014-September 2015 has three components: 1) Secondment of an Aid Coordinator to Somalia's Ministry of Finance; 2) Secondment of three experts to UNMAS; and 3) Secondment of a Humanitarian Aid Coordinator to the Informal Humanitarian Donor Group. The intervention has been requested by the embassy and the programme has been developed with a terms of reference from the embassy as a basis. Initially there was another component, regarding temporary offices to the Ministry of Health, included in the programme. Since it was recently discovered that there was uncertainties regarding the land ownership of the suggested construction site together with IDPs living there and comments by the embassy's Quality Assurance Committee regarding sustainability and ownership, it was decided that this component should not be implemented for the time being. The dialogue with the Ministry of Health continues and support might be provided through another implementing partner. This change implies that the risk profile of the programme is significantly reduced.
Objectives
The programme had three overall objectives:1) UNMAS: To enhance FGS capacity to mitigate explosive threats and improve weapons, ammunition and explosive management capacity. 2) Ministry of Finance: To increase MoF institutional capacity, functionality and efficiency to better serve as a coordinator and recipient of donor and tax revenues to the benefit and needs of the Somali people, with a particular focus on women and girls. 3) Humanitarian Aid Coordinator: To improve the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian action in Somalia in its capacity of benefit and needs of the Somali people, with a particular focus on women and girls.
AFR100 Phase II - Inception
General
This is a contribution to biodiversity conservation by strengthening the capacity to restore 100 million hectares of forest landscape in Africa.
Objectives
Under the second phase of support the AUDA-NEPAD/AFR100 Secretariat aims to actualize the transition from commitments towards implementation by supporting the AFR100 countries in actualizing their restoration commitments on the ground, through various forest and landscape restoration actions. The actualization of the countries restoration commitments will contribute to reversing the negative impacts of deforestation, environmental and land degradation, realize healthy, productive landscapes, enhance livelihoods of smallholder and rural producers, and subsequently build the resilience of rural communities in Africa, who are most susceptible to risk factors. The Concept Note of AUDA-NEPAD/ AFR100 Secretariat for consideration under the New Swedish Strategy for Regional Cooperation in Africa has three components for the Phase 2 Project, which include: 1) Scaling up the Land Accelerator Programme (LAP): Increased support to Women and Youth restoration entrepreneurs 2) Strengthening Resilience through Sustainable Land Restoration: Support to Implementation of Land Restoration Commitments Support to AFR100 3) Implementation Monitoring: Tracking and reporting AFR100 Implementation The proposed four-month inception phase will allow the AFR100 Secretariat to further elaborate on the Concept note, expanding on the envisaged activities and implementation modalities for each of the three project components, particularly Component 2, as well as the associated budget for Phase 2. In addition, during the inception phase, AFR100 secretariat will contibute toAFR100 Management Team (MT) Retreat and Land Accelerator Boot Camp; and will support National Capacity Building Workshop for Strengthening AFR100 Implementation and Upscaling Forest Landscape Restoration in South Africa.
GLA-PoV-Liberia
General
Liberia hosts large areas of the Upper Guinean Forest ecosystem, recognised globally for its extremely high biodiversity. The country has committed to conserving 30 percent of its natural forests, essential for the livelihoods of local communities who directly depend on these forests and significant in the global fight against climate change. Despite national policy commitments made by the government at the national and international level and the emergence of numerous private sector initiatives to halt deforestation, Liberia has made little progress reducing deforestation in recent years. Rather, the drivers of deforestation, including illegal and destructive logging and industrial agriculture, are gaining in power and speed. Illegal logging in government-allocated logging concessions covering more than 1 million hectares and industrial-scale logging under community forestry licenses are accelerating at an alarming rate. Huge blocks of forest land inhabited by local communities have been handed out to agro-business. The political elite is grabbing lands from communities for plantations as well. More than 60 percent of Liberia’s 5 million population relies on agriculture for their livelihoods and food for their households. The sector employs more than 80 percent of Liberians with women constituting more than half of the labour force. Instead of supporting smallholders, the government has allocated large tracts of land to concessions for oil palm cultivation. As a result, forest communities in several counties have been devastated by the impacts of industrial oil palm. Environmental and Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs) and local activists that demand respect for community and human rights, and improvements in the overall well-being of communities affected by the oil palm companies, have been harassed, intimidated, and have suffered unlawful arrests. In instances where communities have stood up for their rights, they have been targeted by the state and state-security apparatuses. Liberia’s legal framework governing forests has institutionalised the participation of Local Communities and Civil Society in forest governance. Liberia has also made important progress on land tenure reforms. The country adopted a Land Rights Policy in 2013 formally recognising customary collective community land rights. It passed into law in 2018, providing communities with formal ownership over their customary lands.
Diakonia EU-Peru 2021-2024
General
Diakonia has applied for funding of 2 725 000 SEK to carry out the EU project "Compromisos multilaterales entre empresas y agentes comunitario hacia el fortalecimiento de un marco de derechos, institucionalidad y sostenibilidad en Ica y Cotabambas" during the period 2021-2024. The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the development of multilateral commitments between companies and community agents towards the strengthening of a framework of rights, institutions, and sustainability to reduce, prevent and remedy negative impacts of agro-export and mining activities on territories and populations involved in this sector in the provinces of Ica and Cotabambas. The specific objective of the project is to develop capacities and empower men and women from social organizations in multi-stakeholder spaces for local development in the provinces of Ica and Cotabambas; for the incorporation of sustainable land management practices, due diligence mechanisms and a gender approach in agro-export and mining business activities. In this project Diakonia will collaborate with three organizations: COOPERACCION, CODEHICA, PERU EQUIDAD. Diakonia is the lead applicant and has the main responsibility to implement and coordinate the project. The current contribution has the EU-commission reference number: EuropeAid/166151/DH/ACT/Multi. The contribution has a total budget of 1 250 000 EUR which is approximately 12 721 933,79 SEK. Diakonia has been provided 1000 000 EUR from the EU-commission and is applying for 2 725 000 SEK (approximately 20%) from Sida.
Mitigating Conflict through Strengthened Community Land Rights
General
This activity (Mitigating Conflict through Strengthened Community Land Rights) is a component of Security and Justice Innovation Fund reported by FCDO, with a funding type of 111 - Not for profit organisation and a budget of £159,009.This project benefits NEPAL.And works in the following sector(s): Legal and judicial development.
Making Land Reform Work
General
Sicherung von Rechtsansprüchen, Zugang zu Land undnachhaltige Verb. d. Ernährungssituation (Fortf.)
Objectives
Sicherung von Rechtsansprüchen, Zugang zu Land undnachhaltige Verb. d. Ernährungssituation (Fortf.)
SWE-2012-143: Unintended implications of climate change policies - Large scale land acquisitions
General
Unintended implications of climate change policies - Large scale land acquisitions. Large scale land acquisitions (LLA) are rapidly becoming a controversial political issue, often allegedly driven by anticipations of climate change and/or as unintended effects of climate change policies. The current understanding of both drivers and implications are insufficient and there is an urgent to need to understand if LLA is detrimental or beneficial to local communities affected by land deals. The project will make use of new comprehensive datasets on global LLA in order to unravel the emerging patterns and to explore the drivers. We will also make an in-depth study of one of the prime targets of LLA, Ethiopia. Here we will analyse the role of relevant stakeholders (investors as well as public and private actors at the national and local level) and the implications for local communities affected by LLA, particularly the gender implications of changing access to land.
SWE-2012-115: Adapting to changing climate in drylands: The re-greening in Sahel as a potential success case
General
Over the past 20 years a substantial greening trend has occurred in parts of the West African Sahel. Understanding the extent to which this is happening, the implications for livelihoods in the region and the human dimensions behind this greening is interesting for climate change adaptation. This occurs in a region where climate change is expected and where there is a prevailing perception that human induced land degradation is common. We compare several different regions in Niger and Burkina Faso that has been *greening up* to different levels, but which have similar biophysical and social preconditions. In each region we study the re-greening, map out the history of social and biophysical driving forces behind it, link the greening to ecosystem services for livelihoods, and build scenarios based on the farmers perception of the future.
Mozambique Forest Investment Project
General
The Project Development Objective is to improve the practices and enabling environment for forest and land management in Targeted Landscapes.
SWE-2012-143: Unintended implications of climate change policies - Large scale land acquisitions
General
Unintended implications of climate change policies - Large scale land acquisitions. Large scale land acquisitions (LLA) are rapidly becoming a controversial political issue, often allegedly driven by anticipations of climate change and/or as unintended ef