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The Namibian Compact aims to increase the competence of the Namibian workforce through knowledge and skills, as well as to increase the productivity of agricultural and nonagricultural enterprises in rural areas.
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(Ethiopia): Improved land tenure security enables landholders to make longer-term investments in their agro-pastoral activities, thereby contributing to increased productivity and incomes. It also allows pastoralists and farmers to lease their landholdings to entrepreneurs in need of land to grow their own businesses, including activities such as mechanized farming, industry, and marketing services. In addition to helping landholders build more lucrative and stable livelihoods and emerge from poverty, these leasing arrangements also have a spillover effect on the rural economy by increasing opportunities for high growth potential SMEs to provide services and employment opportunities. Building on previous investments to improve rural landholders' land tenure security, particularly women's, the activity will use FY 2021 funds to expand its work with community organizations, rural landholders, and urban dwellers to adopt a scalable approach for land demarcation and certification. The approach includes the use of satellite imagery, simple and cost-effective land surveying and mapping tools, an integrated land information database, research, training, and professional services. The Activity will work with key civil society organizations, such as the Ethiopia Land Administration Professionals Association, to improve the rights of landholders through increased advocacy, research and technical assistance in the implementation of land surveying, planning, demarcation, and registration. By improving incomes and food security, social cohesion, and more equitable urbanization, the Activity advances the USG Global Food Security Strategy and Ethiopia's resilience. . .These efforts directly support Ethiopia's Integrated Country Strategy Mission Goal 3: Spur Broad-based Economic Growth and Mission Objective 3.1: Increase Economic Growth with Resiliency in Rural Ethiopia......
Conservation Works Activity
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(Liberia): Liberia is home to 4.3 million hectares of tropical forest, including 44 percent of the remaining Upper Guinean Rainforest. Rich in biodiversity, the Liberian rainforests are home to multiple threatened species including the Western Chimpanzee, the Forest Elephant, and Pygmy Hippos. The preservation of Liberian's protected areas is jeopardized by shifting agriculture, bushmeat hunting, logging, agricultural concessions, and mining. USAID is currently designing a new activity to support biodiversity conservation in Liberia. The purpose of this activity is to conserve threatened and endangered species by expanding protected areas and improving economic conditions for Liberians that live near protected areas. The core goals of this activity will be the protection of contiguous tracts of forest land that are home to threatened and endangered species and the improvement of livelihoods for rural communities. This new activity will support two key objectives: 1) creating new protected areas and improving management of existing protected areas, and 2) strengthening sustainable conservation enterprises that generate local income and create jobs. Using FY 2021 funds, USAID will support legal recognition of new protected areas, improve management and governance capacity at the national and community level, develop community livelihoods, and support the expansion of ecotourism. The community-centered interventions will help shift dependence away from forest resources and toward more sustainable and resilient livelihood opportunities. Ecotourism efforts will be focused at the national level and on site-specific interventions at potential ecotourism sites. $3 million of funding within this activity will meet the Great Apes non-SPSD and biodiversity earmark.
Artisanal Mining and Property Rights (AMPR)
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The Artisanal Mining and Property Rights (AMPR) activity will improve land and resource governance and promote responsible supply chains for minerals to mitigate against conflict, reduce flows into illicit financial networks, improve economic livelihoods and self-reliance for poor artisanal mining communities, support sustainable environmental practices, increase revenues from artisanal and small scale mining, and promote social cohesion, key U.S. Government goals. Among other activities, this activity will help establish and improve artisanal mining policies and laws, address alternative livelihoods and land use planning, provide training at the local and national levels, and work with artisanal and small scale mining stakeholders at all levels - from local communities to international fora. This activity will adopt a gender sensitive and multidisciplinary approach to address the development challenges associated with informal artisanal and small scale mining.
Sustainable Management of Community Lands II
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(Mexico): .The Activity, implemented by a local organization, will use FY 2021 funds to strengthen government of Mexico policies and regulations, and work with local communities, the private sector and other stakeholders in the Yucatan Peninsula (the states of Quintana Roo and Campeche) and the State of Mexico (Amanalco-Valle de Bravo) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from forestry and agriculture. The Activity, aligned with ICS Objective 4.1, will promote local production from sustainable land management to strengthen sustainable value chains and increase livelihoods for smallholder producers. It also will facilitate partnerships between rural producer organizations (farmers and forest entrepreneurs), private companies (hotels and forest products consumers), and governmental agencies, to realize sustainable use of natural resources and the development of rural communities in sustainable landscapes. The Activity will disseminate its lessons learned and experiences to influence government decision-makers to design and/or implement regulations and programs that foster rural development and the reduction of deforestation and forest degradation... .
Boma-Badingilo Landscape Conservation
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(South Sudan): .FY 2020 biodiversity funds for the Conservation of Boma-Badingilo landscape builds the foundation for conservation, anti-trafficking of wildlife, land and natural resource management, conflict mitigation, and security and livelihood activities to enhance economic resilience within the landscape. FY 2020 funds will develop small-scale, economic opportunities for communities living in the protected areas, which can replace current unsustainable economic practices that destroy South Sudan's wildlife and natural resources. Through technical assistance, this project will strengthen the capacity of natural resource management organizations and traditional authority figures in targeted communities to protect wildlife and forests from the threats of gas, oil, and mineral extraction. Funds will also combat illegal poaching and trafficking of wildlife by supporting the development of conservation and management plans for high biodiversity areas...Anticipated results include: .Prevention of local poaching and regional trafficking in wildlife and wildlife products;Strengthened capacities of local authorities and community groups in sustainable land-use planning, natural resource management, and conservation;Improved conservation and natural resource management capacities of wildlife rangers, community groups, and traditional authorities to effectively conserve biodiversity;Conflict reduction, creating opportunities for local communities to engage in economic activities;Improved security in the protected area and corridor management conserving the great wildlife migrations, biodiversity, and vast savannah, wetlands, and forests of the landscapeImproved governance and natural resource management practices throughout the landscape; andThe Wildlife Conservation Society, which implemented similar biodiversity activities in this location for years, is uniquely placed to tackle the issues of this biodiversity context.