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F.a: Expanding women?s food sovereignty through agroecology in the province of Nampula
General
The project will 1) organise a project start-up workshop to refine working methods and content, 2) identify 4 new women's associations as beneficiaries, 3) establish agroecological cultivation and composting model plots for teaching and exchange of experie nces in new project villages, 4) produce guides on agroecology and village saving and loan group functioning for the use of local technicians and female peasant leaders, 5) influence decision-makers by publishing articles and press releases on agroecology, food sovereignty and nutrition, 6) train 16 female champions in nutrition education, food hygiene and waste management, 7) organise intensive training for 16 female peasants for them to become champions of agroecology, 8) monitor the model plots, 9) organ ise exchanges of experience to share best practices in agroecology, 10) organise cooking demonstrations in which local crops are made use of, 11) organise nutrition fares, 12) train peasants in seed selection and reproduction, 13) encourage peasants' assoc iations to set up seed banks, 14) participate in the International Women?s Conference in Maputo to defend peasants? rights and food sovereignty, 15) carry out advocacy meetings with the decision-makers in Ribaue and Malema in regard to prioritizing agroeco logy and defending peasants? rights and 16) support the formal registration process of FOMMUR. The inhabitants of the project area suffer from malnutrition and the prevailing agricultural policy promotes both nutritionally and environmentally unsustainabl e practices. As a result of the project, women farmers are expected to maintain a dialogue with local decision-makers. Through this, they ensure that agroecology is taken into account in local agricultural production plans and defend their land rights. The y are expected to increase the productivity of their farming through agroecological methods. The women?s knowledge, skills and attitudes on ideal nutrition, food hygiene and waste management develop. The direct beneficiary group of the project consists of 300 small-scale female peasants, who are organised in eight farmers' associations in Malema and Ribaue districts in Nampula Province, Mozambique. The project is implemented by the Forum Mocambicano das Mulheres Rurais (FOMMUR) and the environmental organis ation LIVANINGO (www.livaningo.co.mz).
Africa Regional: High-Level Regional Conference on Land and Conflict in the East and Horn of Africa
Objectives
This project aimed to explore the linkages between access to justice and the rule of law, peace, sustainable development and climate change and to contribute towards the achievement of the High-Level Regional Conference on Land and Conflict in the East and Horn of Africa in October 2022.
Target Groups
Direct beneficiaries: Experts drawn from representatives of the Member States of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the African Union, the United Nations system and other international organizations, think tanks, academia, civil society organizations, and the private sector. Indirect beneficiaries: Population of East Africa, particularly women and girls, and parties to land conflicts.
Making Investments work for people and forests in Coastal East Africa (CEA)
General
The pressure of natural resources has increased sharply in East Africa in recent years as the WWF Africa Ecological Footprint Report shows. Population growth and food energy and other commodities rising demand and increase illegal logging cause negative en vironmental and social issues in particular if the land use planning and general management regarding the equitable use of natural resources is weak. A rapidly increasing pressure is the growth of large land based investments including those in the forest sector with many involving expansion in plantation forests. Mozambique and Tanzania are particularly experiencing such large investments in a context where tenure rights are weak for communal land and associated resources despite their importance for livel ihoods and adaptation to change and the incidences of conflicts over land are rising. There is an urgent need to better understand address and find solutions to these conflicts through multi-sector dialogue so as to ensure that this increased investment ca n lead to positive impacts for local livelihoods improvements to forest governance and avoid negative impacts on the environment. The main objective is to strengthen local civil society participation and influence of natural resources particularly forest u se and management decisions and to improve society as a whole to address forest sector investments Tanzania and Mozambique by creating platform for dialogue between civil society and other actors such as government private sector and donors. The project wi ll also promote the interaction between civil society actors in natural resource management and use issues in Tanzania Mozambique Nepal.The second objective of the project is to increase dialogue and cooperation between North and South between actors so th at current and future investment especially in the forestry sector would be ecologically and socially responsible and beneficial to humans and the environment in East Africa.The project supports the new Finnish development policy program priorities 1)promo te human rights democratic and accountable society and 3)Sustainable management of natural resources and environmental protection by promoting equality and democracy and a fairer and more open discussion about natural resources management which will also help the local population and the wider civil society to adapt better to climate change.
Intergrated Watershed approaches for climate resilience in agro-pastoral landscapes
General
UNIDO and UNDP received a joint Letter of Endorsement, dated 27 February 2019, endorsing the proposal of Government of South Sudan on the formulation and execution support to the project #Integrated Watershed approaches for climate resilience in agro-pastoral landscapes#. The project aims to address a range of environmental, land degradation and social economic challenges in the targeted agro pastoral landscape areas and associated value chains. The project objective is to promote climate resilience and adaptation capacity building amongst agricultural and pastoral communities of South Sudan and addresses the LDCF/GEF strategy objective and outcome indicator on technologies and innovative solutions are adapted and deployed to enhance resilience. The envisaged global environmental benefits include 75Hactares of landscapes under improved practices mostly to be achieved with interventions under UNDP coordination. It is also expected that a total number of 10,000 direct and indirectly targeted beneficiaries (60%F and 40%M) will be reached primarily through joint UNIDO and UNDP contributions. UNIDO interventions will focus on the promotion of small scale agribusinesses, and triggering scaled community centre investments in improved agro and food processing and preservation technology and working facilities. Small