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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)  pursuseds national interests and project the UK as a force for good in the world. We promote the interests of British citizens, safeguard the UK’s security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners.

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F.a: Local Alternative Dispute Resolution Project (LADR)

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1. Project: 12269 (Local Alternative Dispute Resolution Project (LADR)) 2. Project area and Country: Kampong Speu, Pursat and Kampong Chhnang provinces in Cambodia. 3. Project justification: The current situation of land dispute in Cambodia is very critical. Many factors have caused the disputes, including conflict setting, land history and political condition. Accessing land titles is still a constraint for many people in rural areas. Although most community members process land, issuing land titles is complicated as the issue of land titles takes time and money. The vulnerable people in the communities often have no land titles, resulting in land conflicts with their neighbors and newcomers as the land of the poor people is an easy target for powerful people and private companies. When land conflict cases have been brought to the provincial court, the ruling is often against the poor people due to corruption in the institution. Right-holders are poor and the majority of community people are illiterate, they do not understand the process to obtain land possessions. They lack information on land law, land registration and family law from relevant local authorities. The duty-bearers have limited knowledge and skills on Alternative Disputes Resolution (ADR), meaning they have to send all land conflicts to district and provincial courts for decision-making that cost much money to spend for the right-holders. 4. The main objective and the expected results: The project aims to have peace and harmonization in the five districts of Pursat, Kampong Chhnang and Kampong Speu provinces through local dispute cases solved successfully and peacefully by Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) institutional structure. To achieve the goal, the project commits to see the change of ADR institutional structure's capacity and network from national to local levels; and also the provision of ADR to community members by duty bearers. 5. Right-holders/beneficiaries: 4,330 persons (2,120 females), including 346 children (138 girls), 218 youths (102 females) and 20 People With Disability (6 females). Duty bearers: Village Leaders, Village Development Committee (VDC), Commune Dispute Resolution Committees, Commune Councils, Commune Committee for Women and Children (CCWC) Officials in District Cadastral Commissions (DCCs) 6. Implementing partner: Life With Dignity (LWD) 7. Budget 2022: EUR 92,000

F.a: Enhancing communities? capacities to monitor public/private development projects to promote responsible a

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Twerwaneho Listeners? Club is a legally registered human rights organization with over 1000 members operating as a company limited by guarantee without share capital. In 2006, a group of local human rights activists started a radio talk show ?Twerwaneho? meaning let?s defend our rights, on local radios, Voice of Tooro and Life FM aimed at awakening people to debate issues of governance and human rights. Through advocating for human rights on radio and community sensitization, the organization has become one of the leading advocates of human rights in Uganda. The organization programs have stimulated debate on land rights and lately corporate accountability with the in-creasing operations of multinational corporations across the region. Through litigation and advocacy, the organization has supported hundreds of people in many communities recover the land and access to/utilization of natural resources. www.tlc-uganda.org

Strengthening community capacity to demand access to and utilisation of land rights in Uganda

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Land is one the most fundamental resources to peoples' living conditions, economic empowerment and, to some extent, their struggle for equity and equality. Property rights over land are essential for a number of reasons, especially in rural areas where agriculture and other land dependent activities are the basis of the economy. This project aims to strengthen the community capacity to demand access to and utlization of land rights in Wakiso District, Uganda

Research on South East Asia indigenous people programme

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South East Asia well represents the global problems of rapid, and uneven development, often at the expense of the increasingly marginalised. Rapid economic growth in the last three decades has seen an increase in multinational companies taking advantage of increasingly liberal flow of finances, goods and services, very often with a focus on providing raw materials for Chinese unparalleled industrialisation. This has exerted pressure on natural resources, particularly land and other land-based resources, and on the communities that depend on them for their subsistence. The majority of states in Asia fail to adequately recognise indigenous rights to land and culture; therefore regional growth is far too often founded on land grabbing and abuse of the marginalised. The lack of protection for land-rights has resulted in inconsistent poverty reduction rates and growing inequality, often perpetuated by poor governance. Indigenous peoples are globally marginal to the dominant economic and political system. Even in some highly developed states including Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada there are indigenous populations living in high levels of disadvantage and marginalisation. Although they make up roughly 5% of the global population, they account for about 15% of the poor. South East Asia is estimated to be home to up 20% of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples in the region are among the poorest in terms of income and access to justice, made worse by insecurity over land tenure, food security, and the gradual erosion of their traditional cultures. Dealing with this situation will require a focus on sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction, along with strategies to address multiple sources of disadvantage to reach those indigenous communities. However, this needs to be done in culturally sensitive manners, with the full engagement of those indigenous peoples in order to be fully empowering. In the South East Asian context indigenous peoples are estimated to make up as much as 30% of the populations in Lao PDR and Myanmar, about 20% in Indonesia, 10-15% in the Philippines, and as low as 1.3% in Cambodia. Their estimated numbers range from a high of 50 to 70 million in Indonesia, 12 to 15 million in the Philippines, to about 179,000 in Cambodia. Part of the problem in identifying the numbers of indigenous peoples in South-East Asia, is that there are on-going conceptual debates concerning the term ‘indigenous peoples’. As noted previously States in the region, despite supporting the Declaration, frequently deny that there are indigenous peoples within their borders , and often refer to them as ethnic minorities, or use terms such as “hill tribes”, “cultural minorities” or “isolated and alien peoples”. However, many of these groups self-identify as indigenous, and that recognition of the indigenous right to determine their own membership is crucial to the definition of who indigenous peoples are. Within the region the application of indigenous rights has been mixed. The Philippines is undeniably the most advanced country in terms of the legal framework governing indigenous peoples, including a 1997 law with the provision for FPIC, although the implementation is frequently lacking. Then there are countries such as Indonesia and Cambodia, which have a history of conflict, but where recent changes in the law show promise in terms of the protection of indigenous rights. The situation in Indonesia looks particularly promising at the moment, with regard to a drafting a law on indigenous peoples (masyarakat hukum adat). Finally there are countries such as Laos and Myanmar, which despite showing some minor improvements in creating regulatory and institutional mechanisms, have a long way to go in terms of providing a rights-based legislative framework. Therefore the opportunities within any country are mixed, and any programme will have to be able to prioritise and take advantage of opportunities as they arise. PIPLinks, working with CAFOD and CAFOD partners, will complete research, alongside developing plans for a regional partner meeting, to review a plan for potential regional work which is based on community support/capacity building and advocacy on defence and promotion of the rights of indigenous peoples in South East Asia. Because of its research and advocacy nature this is difficult to quantify, but the primary work in the initial proposal this is working towards was looking to benefit up to 10,000 indigenous men, women and children, but with secondary benefits to a larger number of indigenous peoples affected by the land rights issues, which can be estimated at least 20% of indigenous populations in South East Asia (approximately 12 million in Indonesia, 2 million in the Philippines, 1 million in Myanmar to about 40,000 in Cambodia

Contribution towards World Food Day week of action

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People's Alliance on Land Rights (PARL) will organise a week-long campaign of public awareness-raising in the lead-up to World Food Day on 16 October 2012. The campaign will seek to highlight the major role small scale food producers play in ensuring food security in Sri Lanka and the need to protect their rights and access to the land, coastal areas and forests and other natural resources such as water. Increasingly, large scale land acquisitions for tourism development, special economic zones and security facilities are having a detrimental effect on the rights of small scale food producers – farmers, fishers and allied food workers. Seminars, media briefings, leaflet and poster distributions, street drama, religious and cultural activities, petitions and marches are planned in most parts of Sri Lanka, culminating in a mass rally in Colombo on 15th October, and a National Seminar on 16th. CAFOD’s grant will allow affected communities to participate in national events and share their experiences with Sri Lankan civil society, representatives of political parties, diplomatic and UN missions, and contribute towards the printing of key studies and leaflets in English, Sinhalese and Tamil.