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Community Organizations Solidaridad
Solidaridad
Solidaridad
Network
Website
Phone number
+31 (0)30 275 9450

Location

Netherlands
Postal address
Solidaridad Network
International Secretariat
't Goylaan 15, 3525 AA
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Working languages
inglés

The Solidaridad Network is an international civil society organisation founded in 1969. Its main objective is facilitating the development of socially responsible, ecologically sound and profitable supply chains. It operates through nine regional expertise centers in over 50 countries. Solidaridad seeks to transform production practices to promote fair and profitable livelihoods and business opportunities, decent working conditions and a fair living wage. Solidaridad without depleting the landscapes where people live and thrive.

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Resources

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Understanding the complexity of formalizing a reduction in size of a large scale oil palm concession in Sierra Leone

Reports & Research
Diciembre, 2019
Sierra Leone

This document, presents a learning story from the LEGEND Challenge Fund that supported partnership projects by civil society and private sector business to test approaches through which private business can potentially contribute to more secure land rights and better land governance in agricultural investment sites and supply chains.

The challenge of participatory mapping for agricultural investment mapping: Compromise and lessons learned for shared benefits in a project in Sierra Leone

Reports & Research
Diciembre, 2019
Sierra Leone

This document, presents a learning story from the LEGEND Challenge Fund that supported partnership projects by civil society and private sector business to test approaches through which private business can potentially contribute to more secure land rights and better land governance in agricultural investment sites and supply chains. It explains the challenges involved in a participatory mapping exercise conducted jointly by a company Natural Habitats Sierra Leone Ltd (NHSL) a member of the Netherlands based Natural Habitats Group (NHG), and the NGO Solidaridad.

Solidaridad - The LEGEND Project: Accomplishments and Lessons

Reports & Research
Junio, 2019
Sierra Leone

The goal of LEGEND is to apply and test the Analytical Framework for Due Diligence in Responsible Land-Based Agricultural Investments on a large-scale oil palm plantation by Natural Habitats Ltd. The programme is active in Zimmi, Makpele Chiefdom, Pujehun District and is aimed at protecting the land rights, livelihoods and food security of vulnerable people while promoting sustainable businesses. Furthermore, Solidaridad is testing the recent adoption of the New Land Policy (NLP) on Natural Habitat’s work in the chiefdom.

Application of the New Alliance Due Diligence Tool: lessons from green field oil palm investment in Sierra Leone

Reports & Research
Junio, 2019
Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone Solidaridad implemented a project which is part of the LEGEND programme funded by DFID (2016-1019). The private sector partner in this project is the Natural Habitats Sierra Leone, which currently operates in two oil palm production areas, located around Yele and Zimmi in the Gbonkolenken district of Northern Sierra and Pujehun district of Southern Sierra Leone respectively.

 

Natural Habitats Sierra Leone company perspective: The LEGEND project: accomplishments and lessons

Reports & Research
Febrero, 2019
Sierra Leone

In 2014, Natural Habitats Sierra Leone took over an existing land lease from WAA2, covering theentire Makpele Chiefdom in Pujehun District,Sierra Leone. It quickly became apparent that not all communities were happy with the existing lease and that negotiations lacked free, prior and informed consent of all stakeholders.