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Land Rights for Rural Women and Youth
General
The Project seeks to protect the rights of rural women and youth to access land in the project Communities of Margibi and Bong counties. The project aims to contribute to secure land tenure for poor and marginalised rural women and youth, vulnerable women and youth of 20 rural communities in Bong and Margibi counties will be empowered. The project target is to ensure that rural women and youth enjoy and exercise unfettered access to land in their respective communities. The project will ensure that rural women and youth acquire knowledge on their right to land as well as their right to inherit real property, specifically land right. This intervention will instill self-confidence amongst Women and youth that will enable them to express their experiences and report cases in which they have been marginalised. The project will contribute through: 1. Awareness and outreach on the various categories of lands, including private, government, public and customary land through town hall meetings, LLS will make use of the Community Land Dispute Committee (CLDC) to carry out sustained awareness periodically 2. Collaborate with the Liberia Land Authority (LLA), local authorities, town chiefs and LLA focal points in the counties and districts 3. Support the targeted communities (especially marginalized rural women and youth) to recognize and exercise their statutory and customary rights, knowledge sharing and networking; targeted community leaders (rural women and youth leaders, Elders and chiefs) will receive refresher training in the Land Rights Act and the Inheritance Law through Legal Aid Support Meetings, and 4. LLS will engage the local bar association in the counties for the purpose of litigation, where land rights issues fail to be resolved using the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) method.
Kenya Community Land Rights Project
General
Empower target communities in Turkana and Tana River counties with skills, knowledge and information and to establish community led land rights mechanisms that will ensure that communities have more equitable and secure tenure over community lands and resources
Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene
General
Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene (SLSSH) is a student hygiene and school sanitation project designed whereby students take the lead in the process of implementation. It is the students that initiate and lead change processes by establishing their own committees and setting their own bylaws to improve their school compound sanitation and students’ hygiene.
Objectives
The project Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene (SLSSH) is adopted to school setting from Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) to contribute to the effort of Ethiopian Ministry of Health to improve the sanitation and hygiene service and reach 82% of the population in sanitation and hygiene and Open defecation Free (OPF) society by 2015 and assured child friendly school environment through hygiene and sanitation intervention to contribute to the improvement of quality education
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Target Groups
The project will be implemented in 2 rural primary schools of Liben-Chukala located in East Shoa Zone of Oromia National Regional State. Here the school community (teachers, students and supporting staffs) will directly benefited from the intervention of this project. As of the current data from the schools, +/- 2400 students and 90 teachers and supporting staffs will be addressed. Apparently, a total of +/- 15 000 community members will be indirectly benefited from the SLSSH project to be implemented in 3 primary schools.
Human Rights Defence and advocacy for Honduran communities
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During last years there has been a significant increase in the number of human rights defenders killed, threatened, stigmatised and criminalised in Honduras, highlighted as the most dangerous country of the world for the defence of the environment. Only during the last 10 years 123 land rights defenders were murdered. This initiative aims to support and protect human right defenders at risk working on land and environmental rights across the country. The partner has worked with national and international networks in advocacy initiatives to raise the awareness through reliable evidence. The lawyers Team has carried out strategic litigation work at the Inter-American Human Rights System on cases of criminalisation of defenders working on land rights. There is a renewed local and young leadership within communities accompanied by the partner promoting a “popular sovereignty” concept, which has been scaled to a national and regional level. Alliances with ecumenical organisations, parishes and social movements will be relevant in the implementation and the care of the common home is a media content production cross-cutting topic. ERIC-RP has a relevant leadership within the Commission for Social Apostolate of the Jesuits in Central America (CPAS). In particular this mission is accomplished through the development and diffusion of social, theological and cultural analysis and reflection. Context update 2022 In January, the first woman president in history, Xiomara Castro, took office with a programme that included an explicit mention of the need to incorporate comprehensive protection policies for human rights defenders. The ratification of the Escazú Agreement by the Honduran Congress could open the door to greater transparency by the private sector and recognition of land and environmental defenders. This is the first binding instrument in the world to include specific regulations on land and environmental defenders.
Grazing Lands, Livestock and Climate Resilient Mitigation in the Kafue Basin
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The Livestock project introduced the principle of holistic sustainable land management in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi. In 2021, the project expanded to two new sites in Zambia as a result of the high demand by the communities after noticing the positive results, reaching a total of 435 farmers supported.