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Several studies have shown that Niger is one of the countries where poverty has a female face and one of the explanatory factors isthe difficulty of women to access land in a secure way. However, 50.6% of Niger's population is made up of women and girlsand is still the majority in rural areas. . In this environment, which contains more than 80% of the population, women are a real workforce for agriculture and livestock farming. They account for more than 80% of agricultural activities, from sowing to processing and marketing. They derive their income mainly from these agricultural activities and small businesses. As a result, they occupy an importantplace in all links in household food and nutrition security. Despite this numerical weight and their full involvement in agricultural activities, this layer uses only 6% of exploitable land and rarely owns it. The land issue is an important issue for rural women because land conditions their production activities. In the department of Tanout, women are major producers of market garden products and okra. They exploit marginal lands (flooded or glacis) in the form of loans, pledges or leases. The land expropriations that occurred since 2008 in the communes of Bakin Birgi and Ouallalewa have considerably increased the difficulties of women's access to agricultural land already diminished by the continuous degradation linked to the effects of climate change. On the other hand, women are generally marginalized in sharing family land inheritance. They are used as labor that helps their family and / or their family in field work that they do not control harvests. Many projects and programs in these areas have often faced situations where the women they support in agricultural activities find it difficult to find or keep sites for a long time. Indeed, women's access to these sites is usually done by loan, pledge or even donation. Most of these acquisitions are not secure; therefore subject to enormous difficulties in time. The present project aims to carry out a broad advocacy so that the situation of women's access to land is improvedand secured in the communes of Bakin Birgi and Ouallaléwa. The innovation of this project lies in the proposal of a combination of actions led by women leaders focused on improving access to land and land tenure for the benefit of women in rural areas.

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PFU will be responsible for Participatory gendered capacity development assessments of the Legal Affairs Department, Land Affairs Department and 3 district-level offices; provision of tailored capacity development package; capacity development in land and water practices to 15 farmer groups/cooperatives; gender audit and technical support to 10 mixed cooperatives to develop gender-inclusive measures; women#s economic leadership training sessions; #Women and agriculture# workshops; capacity building on land issues; advocacy training for CBOs/farmer groups; policy papers on land rights and protection and investment in Area C; roundtables; lobby trip; campaign on land rights; investment platforms and farmers councils in Area C.

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This project falls under the thematic area Right to Food and follows on the project A-04839 from 2016-2018. Through our work on Right to Food Oxfam Novib and SOMO aim to achieve that more small-scale food producers and agricultural workers, particularly women andtheir communities, benefit from local to global public and private sector policies that protect and promote their prosperity and resilience. The project for 2019-2020 has no significant changes in its theory of change or its objectives compared to the previous phase 2016-18. The context is still similar as Indonesia is currently progressing towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with indications of a decline in the poverty rate of economic inequality and an increase in staple food production. Despitethe surplus production, almost all provinces in Eastern Indonesia experience situations of food vulnerability and food insecurity. The ambition to achieve full food security will be largely determined by the 32 million small-scale food producers, in this case farmers and fishermen. The project therefore continues with partners to emphasize the need to increase access to resources for small-scale food producers and to tackle land conflicts. The long term objective remains the same to realize the right to food for small-scale farmers and fishermen through increasing their access and control over productive resources, specifically access and control over land. This is to include in 2019-2020 specifically improvements in the working conditions of workers (especially women) in the seafood processing industry. This is linked to Oxfam and partners’ commitment to food justice by encouraging the fulfillment of the rights of vulnerable citizens in the supply chain, including the seafood sector processing workers. Civil society groups have so far been very active in proposing priorities of agrarian reform which are then used by the Government in the implementation of land redistribution programs for small-scale farmers. Granting the status of land rights to small-scale farmers, including women, is very important for tenure security. Recognition of land rights and access to Government programs for women is very important in attain to increase equality in national regulations. The principles of sustainable business that emphasize the importance of continuity in people, planet and profit and business principles and human rights will be used as a pillar for regulations related to private sector influencing in this project, including the supply chain of the seafood sector. In this project Oxfam will continue to work with the following Indonesian partners: Coalition for Agrarian Reform (KPA), People’s Coalition for Fishery Justice (KIARA), People Coalition for Food Sovereignty (KRKP), Women’s Solidarity for Human Rights (SP), Indonesia Fisher Union (SNI), Pikul Association.