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Amplifying the Global Call to Action on Community and Indigenous Land Rights # These activities lead by Forest Peoples Program (FPP) and their partners in three countries contribute to amplifying the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community land rights by supporting local efforts to secure their lands, gaining support for them and creating momentum linking local and global to help them achieve their aims while also engaging governments, national human rights institutions and supporting local efforts at land and resource governance and management. FPP will offer communications support to allied organizations, and use social media and website to showcase the strongest outputs from these activities through www.landrightsnow.org and other media.
FRA- Amplify seeds & land rights voices
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Food Rights Alliance-FRA is a coalition that was constituted in 1999 to bring together Civil Society Organizations working in the field of sustainable agriculture and food security in Uganda. FRA has over the years grown to more than 60 national, international and local organizations, four regional food security networks in central, western and eastern Uganda with many individual membership subscriptions. Because of her national experience in her mandate of coordinating activities of its alliance against hunger and malnutrition of the Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO) in eastern Uganda in 2013, the Right to Food Program in Uganda will leverageon FRA experience and expertise. Specifically, FRA will perform the following tasks; Amplifying voices of the consortium CSOs and small-scale food producers in relation to secure seeds and land rights at national level for effective engagements on policy issues by both government and private sector. FRA will be a national convener responsible for identifying and creating platforms for Right to Food Partners at all levels and advising, supporting, participating and representing them in fora that advance small scale and women food producers# rights to seeds and land. FRA will also strengthen the program mediaengagements and presence, collaborations and linkages with key government entities, private sector players to voice key concerns related to seeds and land rights.
ORAM - Nampula
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ORAM - Rural Association for Mutual Support, Mozambique A non-profit organisation created in 1992 by members of the Mozambican Christian Council. It seeks to support rural communities,in particular smallholder peasants,with the legalisation of their agriculturalland, management of natural resources and other rural enterprises. It has a director,assisted by a board of executive directors.ORAM started with three employees but now has over 200 staff with activities in seven of 10 provinces. The post-war resettlement of displaced people was carried out without major problems and conflicts, without costs for public administration systems, using customary systems of ownership. This served to illustrate of resilience of these systems. Nevertheless, thePeace and Reconstruction Commission of the Mozambique Christian Council did come across some land conflicts during its resettlement work of displaced people. This was considered a very sensitive question and the Council opted to create an NGO to deal withland issues. Thus, in 1992, ORAM (Rural Association for Mutual Support), which participated in this study, was created. Its 10 founding members belonged to the Mozambique Christian Council and the initial funding came from Christian Aid, whose first president was then also president of the Christian Council. Geographical locationof interventions of counterpartner: Provinces of Nampula and Zambezia General terms the interventions strategies that will be applied: Advocacy and lobbies activities # CSOs increasingly participate in or initiate influencing and advocacy efforts on access to land farmers especially women
ESAFF- Platforms for Small Scale Farmers
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Eastern and Southern African Farmers Forum-Uganda (ESAFF-Uganda) is part of a regional small scale farmers# coalition established in 2002 during the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg to bring together small scale farmers, pastoralists and traditional fisher folks at different levels into a social movements with a common aspirations and ensure learning <(>&<)> linkages. ESAFF- Uganda will work with consortium members of R2F project and other likeminded organizations to push for the recognition of small scale farmers# voices by organizing and participating on high level lobby meetings, campaigns, dialogues and policy meetings. ESAFF #Uganda will also map and establish linkages with government entities directly involved in the sectors e.g. Agriculture that the program contribute towards. ESAFF Uganda will work directly with the small scale food producers to test the models (CMSS <(>&<)> CRAEM) to generate evidences in Amuru, Soroti, Amuria and Gulu, organize and participate in dialogues and events that push for recognition of small scale food producers# rights to seeds and lands for the realization of rights to food of women and other small scale food producers by taking advantage of spaces at her disposal at different levels which may include local, national, regional and global levels. ESAFF will ensure that the Farmers groups# capacity is strengthened through GALS methodology and also establish collaborations with the neighborhood assemblies- a platform under F4D where citizens raise their concerns to key decisions makers at local levels. ESAFF will also ensure that the small scale farmers are supported to attend important dialogues, conferences and workshops amongst others that advocate for secure seeds and land rights for small scale food producers.
ASSOCIACAO JOINT [ASCUT]
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ASCUT: ASCUT is a network of civil society organization and intergovernmental organizations working together to promote secure and lobbying for pro-poor land policies and laws. The alliance has been in existence since 2014 and has working to a number of local policies, laws and administrative systems over land for poor women and men through advocacy, dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building. ASCUT is hosted on JOINT, League of NGOs in Mozambique. JOINT connect and strengthen the institutions of civil society in order to improve collective action for the common good as well as the dialogue with the Government and Private Sector. Operational strategies [National level]: Partner with national-level responsibility to strengthen the link between activists and the academe, as well as in a direct and positive mode of engagement with government and other intergovernmental agencies. Also organize dialogues with relevant stakeholders, sharing policy positions on land rights and coordinating support for activities on improving tenure security and capacity development on land issues and policies. It is also responsible on pressuring and influencing the parliament [Land Commission] land issues and policies. Geographical location of interventions of counterpartner: National / Central level General terms the interventions strategies that will be applied: Research and influence activities # CSOs increasingly participate in or initiate influencing and advocacy efforts on access to land farmers especially women