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This project falls under Oxfam Novib#s Strategic Partnership with the Dutch government and more specifically the Theory of Change for Right to Food, aiming to achieve impact for women, men and children living in poverty to realise their right to food. This project sits within a wider program that contains more projects that Oxfam Novib is engaged in. These include the Oxfam Global Land Program, which consists of work in some 40 countries, as well as projects on water governance; climate resilient livelihoods; socially andenvironmentally responsible agribusiness and value chains; and women#s economic empowerment in agriculture. The goal of this project is that small-scale producers and agricultural workers, particularly women and their communities, benefit from local to global public and private sector policies that protect and promote their prosperity and resilience. The project focuses on: - Building the capacity of CSOs to influence key public and private sector stakeholders. Through the project, Oxfam country teams and CSOs have increased capacity through in-country support, shared learning, synergies and development of supportive tools in their influencing work on land rights, access to water, gender, agro biodiversity, climate resilient livelihoods and more capacity in engaging with private sector to promote responsible value chains. - Contributing to creating political will in the Netherlands for endorsing policy asks of Oxfam/partners towards promoting small scale producers# land rights and their access to water and engaging with PS to develop pro-poor business models; and in international organisations such as IFAD on gender transformative approaches in the design of their programmes on agricultural value chains, food and nutrition security. The project will build capacity through training on engagement with private sector; development of tools such as gender-sensitive tools to help communities to engage with land investors; country case studies on demonstrating the value and effectiveness of climate change resilient livelihoods experiences and responsible agribusinesses at local level in order to inform the national agricultural policy influencing and to influence relevant networks in the Netherlands and globally The project will be implemented in 8 countries: Burundi, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Myanmar, Uganda, Vietnam, and at global level through influencing actors in multi stakeholder initiatives; The Netherlands, UN agencies. In this project we work together with others such as WUR (knowledge partner in FAIR project and landscape approach project and in global women#s land rights initiative); Kadaster International, knowledge partner in our work on sustainable palm oil; Agri Pro Focus;NWP; LANDAC; UNESCO-IHE; RSPO Human Rights Working Group; VOICE; Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC).

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The SUSPO programme aims to ensure the recognition and protection of land rights of communities in palm oil producing countries, notably in Indonesia, by governments, and to ensure the respect of land rights by palm oil companies, resulting in access to decision making regarding their land ownership and use rights. Over the years the expansion of palm oil plantations in Indonesia has gone hand in hand with land grabbing from local (indigenous) communities resulting in over 3,500 conflicts of which the majority remains without remedy. The loss of land has lead to both economic and social problems for (indigenous) communities leading to decreased food security, lower income and social destabilisation. Women#s land rights are hardly taken into account. Labourers on the palm oil plantations work under poor labour conditions, often severely marginalising their socio-economic position. Oil palm plantation workers experience that their rights to organise are hindered by companies, they face poor safety and health conditions especially for women, low payments (below minimum wage) and inequality of payments between men and women. The approach is to link project activities at country level ( communities, districts and national level) to activities at global level at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and vice versa. A coherent set of project components have been formulated: empowering communities affected by palm oil plantations in securing their land rights, sustainable land use planning (multi-stakeholder community mapping), strengthening the position of oil palm smallholders, land rights policy reform at national level through lobby and advocacy, setting the agenda for decent work in the palm oil sector, strengthening the social agenda of the RSPO through leading the Human Rights working group (promoting land rights, labour rights, Free, Prior and Informed Consent), through improving social auditing mechanisms, through improving dispute settlement mechanisms and monitoring the sustainabilityof the solutions provided. The project components are currently being implemented in Indonesia and at the global level of the RSPO. Indonesian partners are the Oxfam country office, TuK Indonesia (#Transformation for Justice#), LBH Medan (Legal aid organisation) and JKPP (#Participatory Mapping Network#). Allies to our work at the RSPO include Forest Peoples Programme and Both enDS. Scaling up of the Oxfam sustainable palm oil work is being considered in DRC, Nigeria and Burma. The RSPO work is currently being done by highly experienced Oxfam Novib policy advisers based in the Hague. Current donor agencies of the SUSPO programme are: Ford Foundation (land rights, labour rights, RSPO) and the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs (sustainable land use planning). Also Oxfam Novib invests with its own funding sources in the programme. Other donors were: Foreign and Common Wealth Office (FCO), Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), Ford Foundation.

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Comisso Pastoral da Terra do Rio Grande do Norte (CPT-RN) will work in Brazil with community associations to introduce low-cost infrastructure for farming with limited water resources in 10 settlements formed pursuant to Brazil's program of land reform in western Rio Grande do Norte. The infrastructure will benefit 500 farmers and 2,515 members of their families.