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This project is a 1 year initiative that will be implemented by Agency For Community Empowerment. This is to support the ongoing work under the the Irish Aid funded project. The project will cover the entire coffee value chain and systematically tackling the challenges facing small holder coffee farmers in West Nile. The key objectives the project seeks to address are to; Strengthen coffeefarmer organizations for effective and collective coffee businesses, Set up the basics for farmers to improve their coffee quality, quantity, Support farmer organizations market their coffee for the best possible price, Empower women farmers in their path to full participation in coffee, as farmers, owners and leaders AFCE under this project will support farmersto acquire skills on DisasterRisk Reduction, doing market research and availing farmers with market information, establishment of coffee nursery beds as an alternative source of income for the coffee farmers and finally conducting community dialogues to influence women land rights. All this will be done to ensure that women coffee farmers are economically empowered and have sustained livelihoods.

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The Department of Agrarian Reform launched the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling Project (SPLIT) in October 2020, which will grant individual titles to collective CLOA holders as mandated under CARP within three years. But land rights groups, like ORKALEFF and KAISAHAN, caution DAR to first ensure that ARBs are not vulnerable to pawning or selling their land and are capable to make their land productive. In Leyte, SPLIT targets 3,000 collective CLOAs awarded to farmers now in their 60s or mid-50s ordeceased. Some may be unable to farm but with heirs who can continue farming their land. It is crucial that these ARBs retain land ownership, especially now with the economic pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic. How will the SPLIT project involve these ageing farmers and their heirs given COVID-19 restrictions for senior citizens and mass gatherings? ORKALEFF and KAISAHAN targets to influence DAR to ensure that ageing ARB members and their heirs are qualified to benefit from the SPLIT project, are not disenfranchised, and understand the repercussions of individual titling under SPLIT on their land rights. Specifically, it targets the following: 1. Local and national criteria and processes for the validation and prioritization of beneficiaries under the SPLIT project are influenced in favor of the qualified ageing ARBs and youth heirs. 2. Ageing ORKALEFF members and youth heirs are not disenfranchised or forced into parcelization by the SPLIT processes. 3. Clearer policies on ARB succession in collective EPs/CLOAs and policy or government directives on the provision of support services to ARB SPLIT beneficiaries are issued. The project will focus on ORKALEFF members in Ormoc City and Kananga and KAISAHAN partner ARB organizations in municipalities of Capoocan and Alangalang in Leyte. Other key actors are DAR, concerned agencies and CSO advocates.

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OAP (Organisation d'Appui à l'Auto Promotion) is a local NGO responsible for the implementation of PABAB's Component 2 'Increase of agricultural productivity, resilience, producers' organizations and access to markets' in the province of Bujumbura Rural. The following sub-components are part of this responsibility : (1) strengthening of technical capacities of farmers for integrated land management in the local communities, (2) Farmers' organisation and structuration into associations and farmers' cooperatives and theirmanagement, (3) Information/communication, training and agricultural lobby activities, (4) Creating Loan and Saving groups, in liaison with MFIs, and (5) Activities to improve conservation of agricultural produce and marketing of surplus produce.