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PROG2017-2021_SO15_Nicaragua
General
Nicaragua recently returned to the VLIR-UOS list of partner countries -after a few years without project opportunities- because of its potential for academic cooperation and the interest of Flemish HEI to work with Nicaraguan HEI. VLIR-UOS supports interventions that empower higher education institutes in their role as drivers of change. All interventions frame within the VLIR-UOS Country Strategy for Nicaragua which fits in the national human development plan (PNDH), higher education priorities and the JSF. The strategy is translated in 3 domains: environment (climate change, effects on disease, agriculture, biodiversity, natural resources, link economy, link ecotourism&labels/entrepreneurship, waste management), territorial development (land transition, local development&governance, productive landscapes, agroforestry, spatial contexts, rurality, conflict, agricultural development, sustainable development, link public health/disease control) and society (inclusive governments, human rights, social&community development, education, local governance, migration, transitional justice, intercultural issues, land rights, gender&violence, youth&violence, link public health/disease control). Special attention should go to cross-cutting and supporting issues related to higher education and research (research strategy/thinking, problem based research and innovation, academic English, proposal writing, open library & access systems, gender mainstreaming and balances, intercultural diversity, multidisciplinary research). The programme will be a kind of exploratory phase aiming at motivating researchers to submit project proposals for TEAM and South Initiatives. At least a few projects should be able to take place.
Promoting Food Security and Agriculture Governance in Ghana
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The main campaign objective is to ensure more women, youth and men small -scale food producers currently in poverty have stronger voice in food and agriculture policy processes and rights to productive assets and market opportunities for sustainable and dignified lives. The campaign issues to be addressed include but not limited to: access to social protection, agriculture aid effectiveness, national food security policies, increase public and private investment in smallholder agriculture, land rights and national climate change adaptation and agriculture plans. The project will contribute to the Programme Implementation Plan (PIP) outcomes by catalysing increased quantity and quality of public and private investment in agriculture in order to secure, improve and sustain the productivity, resilience and well -being of women and other smallholder farmers, their households and communities in Ghana. It further aims to consolidate, leverage, and enhance the impact of commitments made by government and donors in support of smallholder agriculture in Ghana and beyond. The project will empower women and other smallholder producers' organization, civil society and media with skills to influence and challenge policies and practices that affect them. This will involve engaging in budget advocacy to increase allocation and spending on agriculture, tracking agriculture budgets, convening platforms for policy influencing and good agriculture governance, and building local, national, regional and global alliances to promote investments in agriculture targeting women and other smallholder farmers
Ecological Connectivity and Sustainable Land-Use in the Ostua dry forest Biological Corridor
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Project will reduce the threat of agricultural and livestock expansion and intensification into the Ostua dry forest by working with local stakeholders. Project activities include: 1) establishing a model for connectivity between dry forests and riparian zones, 2) implementing land-use planning and more efficient livestock production systems in conjunction with local communities, 3) engaging with at least 10 ranchers to improve practices and apply for forest ecosystem services payments, and 4) systemizing the pilot model to scale it up throughout the Montecristo-Trinational Biological Corridor.
Improving Advocacy Capacity- Land Rights
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Strengthen the voice and participation of ethnic minorities in regards to land rights disputes, by strengthening the capacity to lobby and advocate of the Pioneers Network for Voice of Ethnic Minorities (in Vietnamese Tien Phong) to promote and protect their (land) rights.
Action for access & management rights to land for farmers in northern Thailand
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The project prioritises capacity building of the affected farmer communities to achieve and maintain CTLD or similar concept with support from LAOs for legislative changes. The project works with 32 communities to demonstrate the community process and capacity of land and forest management to gain public support for the law, and expand the management capacity to 247 communities. The project will increase capacity of national alliance for land reform and its sub -networks,engage with academic,media and the private sector to support campaign and advocacy functions and to communicate with the government and relevant agencies for law enactment.
Help Sumarin Family Win in Israel's Supreme Court
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The Sumarin family's house was taken by theft, a central fact ignored by the Jerusalem District Court when it rejected the Sumarin family's appeal against eviction by the Jewish National Fund. Ongoing for 30 years, their case isn't over. In the 1990's, an Israeli court & a government commission determined that expropriation of their property was in violation of Israeli law. In April they will bring their case to Israel's Supreme Court. Your donation assures access to the best attorneys possible.
NDE Zamini Adhikar Abhyan (ZAA)
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SEWA Delhi’s project works toward socially and economically empowering informal women workers by eliminating barriers to accessing tenure security, adequate infrastructure services, and formal finance.