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La Novia Landscape Conservation Initiative
General
The Alto Purs region of Peru, comprised of the Alto Purs National Park, the adjacent Purs Communal Reserve (a buffer zone of titled indigenous lands), and two protected reserves for isolated indigenous communities, harbors world-class levels of mammal and bird diversity (194 and 510 species, respectively) and globally endangered and threatened species: the black spider monkey (Ateles chamek), giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), jaguar (Panthera onca), and the arapaima (Arapaima gigas), among the worlds largest freshwater fish that has been extirpated from all but the most remote parts of Amazonia. This project will support conservation efforts in Alto Purs by strengthening the La Novia Conservation Alliance between Perus park service, local indigenous communities, and non-indigenous townspeople, and protect threatened species by promoting income alternatives to unsustainable and illegal resource extraction. Activities include: community training and fieldwork to increase the population of the Yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), assessing populations of the giant river otter and arapaima fish to inform future management strategies, training and equipping community vigilance committees to more effectively respond to illegal resource extraction by outsiders, implementing the regions first community lake management plan, and providing support for a new research station and eco-tourism.
Land and livelihoods in Kachin State, Myanmar
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The project is going to work with two partners (ALinn Bamaw and Kachin Conservation Working Group - KCWG) at 22 villages and 5 Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps in 5 townships, Kachin state. The project targeted women and men in that 22 villages and 5 IDP camps to improve their knowledge and skill on their right and access to land and forest. The project is also going to form farmers group and community forest user groups in the villages and applying land registration and Community Forest certification to secure their land and forest, at the same time improving their livelihoods based on their land and forest. Civil Society Organisation (CSO) networking group would be created by the project partners and local CSOs in Kachin for creating the platform between the government and community group for improving their law and policy discussion on gender, land and forest. The women empowerment and leadership and encouragement of gender on land activities would be implemented by the project for the improvement of women role in land and forest sectors including law and policy.
Loliondo Pastoralist Land Rights
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Tanzania Pastoralist Community forum (TPCF) is a non governmental non partisan and not profit making organization working to advance the rights of pastoralist communities in Tanzania. The advocacy is done through collective community base initiatives to re duce vulnerability and improve their livelihoods. TPCF is the main implementing agency in this project.The main objectives of the activities are: To raise community land right awareness at the project village, To facilitate conflict management in different levels, To improve community resources rights and increase access to land resources by all groups in the communitiesThe activities include, Land rights awareness trainings sessions (on village land act No.5 and 4 of 1999). This will include holding a one day consultative workshop to introduce the project to various stakeholders at the District level. Also to organise a three days land rights trainings to twenty project villages and two days training to Ward land tribunals committees, To facilitate Land con flict management and villages survey. This includes establishment of district land and housing tribunal organise inter-village meetings to facilitate village survey train on land conflict resolution Act of 2007 engage with National land use Commission and facilitate inter-village meetings to discuss villages boarders, Documentation and reports dissemination. The documentation for the process and the report will be produced to enable community understand the agreed land use plan for the purpose of reducing l and conflicts and povertyProject Administration. This includes project day to day monitoring and administration. Project monitoring will be done to ensure that the project has sustainably achieved the intended goals and objectivesThe target group in this p roject are: Village councils, village land committee, wards land tribunal, District land and housing tribunal, traditional leaders and National land Use plannning Commission.The final results of this project will be , Sustainable Land Use Planning.Pastoral ist resource right violation is high in various parts of the country but Loliondo land rights violation has been an historical problem since the creation of the Serengeti national Park that resulted to the first pastoralist eviction in 1959 todate. Therefo re this intervention is very important now to secure pastoralist future survival in Loliondo.
Integrated approach to strengthening land-rights of indigenous communities in Sierra Norte de Veracruz, Mexico
General
Stärkung von Landrechten indigener Gemeinden in der Sierra Norte de Veracruz
Objectives
Stärkung von Landrechten indigener Gemeinden in der Sierra Norte de Veracruz
FLC: Scaling up Amka Mwanamke (Woman Arise) Campaign in Response to Women?s Land Rights
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What to be done and why?The project intends to empower more women give them more voices to advocate for their rights for them to have full control over land resources. In Tanzania customary practices often require women to access land through their father s brothers husbands or other men who control the land. This makes women vulnerable and decreases agricultural productivity. When women lose their connection to this male relative through either death divorce or migration they can lose their land home and m eans of supporting themselves and their families. Direct beneficiaries Direct beneficiaries: 5000 vulnerable women and girlsExpected impact:Proportion numbers of women in Muleba and Bukoba Districts have adequate access to and control over land resources. Direct project results/ outcomes:Increased capacity knowledge and skills among marginalized women on their rights to have access to and control over land. Village and Ward Land Councils are accountable and ensure equitable distribution of land resources fo r women. Increased access to information education and communication services and materials for women about land distribution land registration and land rights. Prominent people political and religious leaders local leaders and traditional land owners are first agents for change in advocacy to land registration land rights and land ownership for vulnerable women. Expected outputs of the projects Lessons learnt on the previous project achievements documented and shared with policy makers.75 paralegals traine d on land rights for women25 Ward Land Councils trained and strengthened140 members of Ward Land Councils trained.Quarterly dialogue meetings with prominent local leaders and traditional land owners convened.1 District Women Friendly Resource Centre (WRC) established and 1 WRC strengthened75 Women informal groups on advocacy for land rights formed and supportedIEC materials developed and distributed media coverage on women?s rights aired outImplementing partners: TAMA is the implementing partner. They will work and s strengthen collaboration with Muleba and Bukoba District Councils particularly Legal Officers Land Officers Village Land Councils and Ward Land Councils and paralegal women Link to the website: www.tama.or.tz
Sustainable Landscape Innovation Network
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Competing land use and resource claims by a wide variety of actors converge at the landscape level. Landscapes are therefore increasingly seen as the spatial scale on which many stakeholders, from global to local level, need to cooperate. Solidaridad's strategy is to develop and/or strengthen policy neutral platforms that bridge the intrinsic tensions between production, farmers’ livelihoods and the environment. The platforms form the basis of a new governance structure that aims to formulate management frameworks for production and natural resource management, based on pilot tested technological solutions. By bringing together regional government and sourcing companies to the negotiating table with those living in the landscape, who were previously not involved, win-win solutions can be found and tested that are supported by local people. Our Landscape Approach sees 5 major steps: Connect stakeholders and create a space for dialogue and planning: we bring together stakeholders in multi-stakeholder partnerships and platforms to enable alignment and cooperation. Build a collective body of landscape knowledge: together with the variety of stakeholders and local and international research institutions. This shared knowledge base is a critical foundation for analysis, decision making, action, monitoring and communication. Develop and test: Identified solutions need to be actionable, affordable and have to make business sense. We work with farmers, entrepreneurs, cooperatives, and downstream supply chain actors and we seek to develop business models which generate a viable income, support investment in improved practices, and contribute to protection and restoration of natural resources. Bridge the gap between policy and practice: There are many ways in which landscape governance can fall short: policies are either not in place, are weak or conflicting, or simply unknown, and institutions often lack the capacity, incentives or means to implement and enforce policies. We raise awareness on existing policy frameworks which affect land use planning and resource management, and we identify the requirements to improve governance in practice. Solidaridad fulfils a key role through linking community level issues to district and national level planning and policy dialogues. Unlock finance for sustainable landscapes: access to finance or capital investment is often required in order to change practices on the ground. Providing access to finance at producer level for replanting and enabling investment in renewable energy at municipal level require different means of financial support.