HO-R2F Program Facilitation & Cap Bldg.

General

This project falls under Oxfam Novib#s Strategic Partnership with the Dutch government and more specifically the Theory of Change for Right to Food, aiming to achieve impact for women, men and children living in poverty to realise their right to food. This project sits within a wider program that contains more projects that Oxfam Novib is engaged in. These include the Oxfam Global Land Program, which consists of work in some 40 countries, as well as projects on water governance; climate resilient livelihoods; socially andenvironmentally responsible agribusiness and value chains; and women#s economic empowerment in agriculture. The goal of this project is that small-scale producers and agricultural workers, particularly women and their communities, benefit from local to global public and private sector policies that protect and promote their prosperity and resilience. The project focuses on: - Building the capacity of CSOs to influence key public and private sector stakeholders. Through the project, Oxfam country teams and CSOs have increased capacity through in-country support, shared learning, synergies and development of supportive tools in their influencing work on land rights, access to water, gender, agro biodiversity, climate resilient livelihoods and more capacity in engaging with private sector to promote responsible value chains. - Contributing to creating political will in the Netherlands for endorsing policy asks of Oxfam/partners towards promoting small scale producers# land rights and their access to water and engaging with PS to develop pro-poor business models; and in international organisations such as IFAD on gender transformative approaches in the design of their programmes on agricultural value chains, food and nutrition security. The project will build capacity through training on engagement with private sector; development of tools such as gender-sensitive tools to help communities to engage with land investors; country case studies on demonstrating the value and effectiveness of climate change resilient livelihoods experiences and responsible agribusinesses at local level in order to inform the national agricultural policy influencing and to influence relevant networks in the Netherlands and globally The project will be implemented in 8 countries: Burundi, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Myanmar, Uganda, Vietnam, and at global level through influencing actors in multi stakeholder initiatives; The Netherlands, UN agencies. In this project we work together with others such as WUR (knowledge partner in FAIR project and landscape approach project and in global women#s land rights initiative); Kadaster International, knowledge partner in our work on sustainable palm oil; Agri Pro Focus;NWP; LANDAC; UNESCO-IHE; RSPO Human Rights Working Group; VOICE; Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC).