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Land Portal Foundation administrative account
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Influencing Private Sector Policies and Practices on Agricultural Venture Agreem
General
This project contributes to the realization of Economic Justice change goal that aims to "contribute to reduction in inequality through effective policy implementation and the promotion of practices that favor engagement and economic empowerment of the poor and most vulnerable in rural and urban Philippines." It will ensure stronger safeguards on land tenure security for ARBs and usher responsible investments on land fit squarely with the Oxfam Country Strategy change goal. The plan is to engage the private agribusiness companies to make business standards and practices responsible and this will eventually inform policy makers to push for stronger safeguards that ensure land tenure security of farmers and that will usher responsible investments that will mutually benefit women and men ARBs and agribusiness companies.
UNIPP Technical Secretariat project
General
This project establishes the secretariat of UNIPP. UNIPP will focus on the following key thematic areas for intervention: 1. Legislative review and reform: develop capacities of State institutions to have indigenous peoples’ rights included and recognized within the national legal system, including through constitutional reforms, development of legislation and incorporation at administrative levels both through indigenous specific legislation such as in areas of non-discrimination. 2 Democratic governance and indigenous peoples’ institutions: strengthening indigenous peoples’ institutions and organizational capacity to fully participate in governance and policy processes at local and national levels 3. Access to justice: recognition and strengthening of indigenous customary law and justice systems; and their inclusion within national legal systems. 4. Access to land and ancestral territories: developing and strengthening capacities for land titling, demarcation and use of ancestral territories, including local capacity development initiatives and those aimed at securing greater recognition of indigenous lands. 5. Natural resources and extractive industries: promoting a framework for conflict prevention, consultation, participation, benefit-sharing and dispute resolution. This area will have a special focus on conflict prevention initiatives around ancestral land and use of natural resources, in particular the need to develop capacity of indigenous communities in negotiation skills and dispute resolution in line with international legal instruments.
Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association
General
- Contribute towards creating climate resilience community through asset building diversifying livelihoods and rehabilitating the degraded watersheds through community action.-The targeted woreda and micro catchments are characterized by rapid rate of land degradation which resulted in declining of productivity and exposure of the community to poverty and displacement. - Expected outcomes are: Improved soil fertility crop yield and household asset and access to food and water retention capacity decreased de forestation and increased forested area with better biodiversity and water in the watersheds. - Project beneficiaries are about 2750 persons in targeted two micro catchments of Begaiz and Abaya (women are 48%). The figure also includes about 200 governmen t workers in the woreda bureau of agriculture. - The implementing agency is EWNRA in partnership with the Embassy of Finland that finances the projects. Government stakeholders are Bureau of Agriculture Bureau of Trade and Bureau of Environmental Protectio n authority at Woreda level. - EWNRA has been selected due to its high expertise and successful implementation of past projects. Sustainability has been ensured in the previous partnerships and the recultivation of rehabilitated gullies and past degraded l ands demonstrates this.