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Specific objective: #Empowered CSOs, CBOs and communities in Hoa Binh and Quang Tri provinces are able to effectively influence thepublic budget process of poverty reduction and development programmes (including on health issues) with wider national impacts on relevant laws and decrees#. 4 results: R1- Poor people, ethnic minorities and women at local level have increased awareness of the budget process and are able to exert influence on this process of poverty reduction and development programmes (including on health issues) R2- The budget transparency coalition is expanded to include multiple stakeholders and strengthened to promote and advocate for budget transparency, accountability and participation at local and national levels, including in relevant laws and decrees at national level R3- Targeted People#s Councils from commune to provincial levels are more effective in the oversight of the budget process, promoting budget transparency, accountability and people#s participation R4- Targeted People#s Committees from commune to provincial levels open spaces for civil society#s meaningful engagement in public budget formulation and budget monitoring of poverty reduction and development programmes (including on health issues) ACDC has experience working for the rights of marginalised groups (including the rural poor, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities), and has specifically focused on influencing policies, and conducting participatory research and community consultations (responsible for developing provincial level consultations for the draft revised Budget Law in 2014 and Land Law in 2013). As an organisation well established in Hoa Binh Province, and with deep understanding of issues facing marginalised communities, ACDC will be responsible for the coordination of activities in Hoa Binh. As a member of the coalition, ACDC also coordinates national level work, providing legal expertise for policy advocacy and inclusive budgets.

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The Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact is one of the founders of the Land Rights Now campaign (www.landrightsnow.org) and has actively participated in the campaign since its inception. Through this project AIPP aims at supporting mobilizations in Thailand and Cambodia through its members, and document actions so that they can feed the wider global campaign and mobilize solidarity around the issue of Indigenous rights to ancestral territories and food, in line with the narrative and asks of the Land Rights Now global mobilization on Indigenous and community land rights and food. The objectives are the following: raise awareness on the link between indigenousland rights and food sovereignty; support national influencing strategies to secure Indigenous land rights. Food sovereignty for indigenous peoples is viewed as having access to land and local food without having to purchase them and where traditional knowledge of farming or wild harvesting are maintained and practiced without fear of reprisals. Furthermore, access to land play an important role in fighting hunger and malnutrition and preventing non-communicable diseases amongst indigenous communities. Often indigenous foods are undervalued and classified as ''food of the poor'' of ''of the past.# Food systems and the nutrition situation of indigenous people are often under pressure due to inaccessibility to their lands and to practice their traditional livelihood and general discrimination to indigenous culture. With this, the proposed project activities for this event are to provide an opportunity to highlight the relation of protection and promotion of indigenous peoples land rights and securing food sovereignty, which is further related to their health and livelihood situation.