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F.a: From conflict to opportunity: rights-based forest conservation in Kenya
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The project entails a rights based approach to conservation in which forest communities’ past and present land dispossession in the name of conservation are redressed and a new approach in which the same communities become recognised as having the rights and responsibilities that accompany their community ownership of their ancestral forest lands. Communities thereby become the pillars of long term sustainable use and protection of their natural resources with the support of conservation agencies. On nati onal level CIPDP together with its allies advocates within the legal reform process related to the forest dependent communities’ land rights. On local level the Ogiek and Sengwer capacity to participate in the decision-making concerning themselves is str engthened as well as drafting of community by-laws and ensuring their implementation. On international level CIPDP will present the Kenyan forest dependent communities’ context and objectives to the World Bank Inspection Panel and the Finnish Ministry fo r Foreign Affairs, as well as participate in the civil society activities to be organised in relation to the World Forestry Congress taking place in Durban in September as a part of wider collaboration with Siemenpuu.Chepkitale Indigenous People Developmen t Project (CIPDP) was founded by the Ogiek community of Chepkitale in 2000, and it was registered in 2003. CIPDP aims to safeguard the rights of the Ogiek community in Mt. Elgon, particularly the land and natural resource rights. Land rights are the founda tion of livelihood, culture and forests. CIPDP bases its advocacy work on the rights recognized in the Kenyan constitution of 2010.CIPDP has pushed the Mt. Elgon county governance to return the community lands under community ownership, developed the const ruction of community by-laws as well as trained community scouts who monitor that they are adhered to. Together with other forest dependent communities CIPDP has advocated for the community land right bill drafting process coordinated by the National Land Commission.On the national level CIPDP collaborates with other forest dependent communities for instance via the Forest Indigenous Peoples Network (FIPN), which it currently coordinates. On the international level one of CIPDP’s close allies is the Fores t Peoples Programme (FPP), and it is in the process of applying membership in the International Land Coalition (ILC), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the ICCA Consortium.
IS-Academy on Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development (LANDAC)
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The “IS-academy” concept was initiated in 2005 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands in order to strengthen the role of knowledge and research in the fight against poverty and for sustainable development. In 2010 the IS-academy entitled: ‘Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development’ has been launched. This IS-academy on land governance will operate as a partnership between IDS (University of Utrecht - leading partner) Agriterra Africa Study Centre (ASC) (Leiden) Chair Disasters Studies (CDS -Wageningen University) HIVOS Royal Tropical Institute (KIT- Amsterdam) Triodos Facet and the Department for Sustainable Development of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DDE). These collaborating partners have a broad network of local counterparts (including universities NGOs producer organizations and other civil society organizations financial institutions ministries) and embassies with whom they collaborate in Africa Asia and Latin America. The IS academy partners will invite their southern counterparts and other organisations based in the global south that are working on land governance to participate in activities of this IS-academy from the start. Land governance today is about managing diverging interests competing claims and processes of inclusion and exclusion. It is also about processes of institutional change as the rules of access to land and the nature of property regimes change covering a wide range of topics (tenure rights land administration land use systems for dispute resolution decentralisation). Land governance choices are influenced by paradigms related to agricultural development private sector development public administration law gender equity indigenous rights environmental governance etc. A range of new often opposing pressures and interests need to be reconciled. Land governance processes needs to strike a balance between protecting rights and promoting the most productive use of land; between economic progress sustainable land use and social justice. Although new land policies seek to secure the rights of smallholders these policies (or other policies) promote large-scale farming and productive use of land. Other issues that influence policies related to land are the aspirations of rural inhabitants to leave for urban areas the implications for land rights and use of rapid urban expansion processes of speculation in the peri-urban sphere and ‘urbanization’. The guiding question of this IS academy is how to optimize the link between land governance sustainable development and poverty alleviation; and thus how to deal with new pressure and competing claims while maximizing opportunities for inclusive and equitable development.
Objectives
Improved coordination agenda setting increased understanding knowledge brokerage improved exchange between stakeholders capacity development; changes in perception)
BRA/14/G32-Strengthen SLM gove
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BRA/14/G32 PIMS 3066 Sergipe Strengthening SLM governance frameworks to combat land degradation processes in Sergipe ASDs in NE Brazil.
REVISED COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
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Revised Communication Strategy, including a handbook describing the process of demarcation and titling and the social and economic impacts of secure land tenure.
IWEco Addressing land degradat
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To reduce and revert land degradation within the target watershed in St Vincent, by an integrated water, land and ecosystems management approach
PROG2017-2021-DGD: Sustainable and climate-smart land use for ecosystem conservation by farmers
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The overall aim is to improve the livelihoods of rural communities in Western Uganda, by promoting and facilitating community-based forest management (UG1) and sustainable and climate-smart land use practices (agro-forestry) (UG2). We focus on two districts: Karabole and Hoima, in western Uganda. In both specific objectives the interventions focus on three aspects: (1) capacity building courses of community promotors and staff of farmers associations in community forestry and sustainable agriculture (including women and youth particularly) ; (2) field actions in terms of participatory forest management and agro-forestry (with special attention for water and soil conservation); (3) promotion of good practices by authorities and institutions. After five years, the farmers associations with which we work will be able to gain a triple win out of their natural capital: socio-economic advantages, climate and biodiversity. This way they can break the vicious circle of land degradation and poverty that threatens rural communities in Uganda and reduce their vulnerability for climate change