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Capacity Building for Investors and Commodity Producers to Effectively Mitigate Social and Land Tenure Risk
General
This project will organise and deliver two training initiatives aimed at ensuring that investment projects in emerging markets and commodity producers in Africa have improved capacity to prevent and manage social and land tenure risks, thus contributing to increased respect for human rights and local land rights in commodity-producing developing economies. The project’s ‘Investor Training on Social Risk Mitigation’ will be given to leading investment institutions in Africa, Asia, the US, and Europe to increase their awareness of the high liabilities associated with insufficient social due diligence and to motivate them to implement best practices for utilising existing resources for mitigating social and land tenure risk. The Investor Training program will be piloted with leading financial institutions and then deployed at scale through an online version of the course. The project’s ‘Africa Training Programme for Social Managers’ will organise a 10-month course that will prepare 15-20 professionals from high-risk commodity producing regions to serve in companies in Central, West and East Africa as Social Managers capable of building corporate social programs and leading effective stakeholder engagement on land tenure and other social risks.
COMMUNITY FARMING FOR GRASSLAND BIRDS
General
The goals of this project are to implement several of the highest priority actions identified in the Prairie to Pampas Grassland Bird Conservation Business Plan. We propose to 1) to engage local land owners and managers with life-cycle data of individual Bobolinks breeding on their property; this interaction will result in changes in land management that rebalance farming and grassland bird needs; 2) to assess the annual life-cycle of individual Bobolinks by collecting data both while on the breeding grounds and through tracking devices for the entire annual cycle; and 3) to use a community-based approach integrating the Audubon volunteers and undergraduate students in collecting and disseminating these data; 4) establish a network of partners in South America with which to share information gained from this work.
Uganda - Women's political leadership
General
This one year project will be very helpful in consolidating the gains realised in a previous project delivered in 2017, to foster women's political leadership in Northern Uganda. Despite its very complex theme and context, in just 10 months of implementation this earlier project achieved some notable results including: building the capacity of district and local women's organisations on effective advocacy; training women councillors, traditional leaders and journalists on gender and women's rights and engaging with women judges and over 2,300 community members in discussions about women's rights. In the proposed project we aim to further these initial gains to achieve 2 main outcomes: 1) The Maputo Protocol and other regional declarations on women's rights are increasingly applied by national government and traditional justice mechanisms 2) Women's political leadership in northern Uganda is fostered to address women's land rights and violence against women and girls Working with a local partner Uganda Women's Network (UWONET), these outcomes will be achieved by, on the one hand, supporting women leaders to influence policy makers on women's rights issues using the skills and knowledge generated, and on the other, by continued dialogue with religious and cultural leaders, the justice system, local community members and other key actors on women's land rights and violence against women and girls. Specifically we would like to deepen work in the following areas: • Engagement with women judges and lawyers to ensure judicial activism for gender responsive court rulings • Engagement with Parliament for gender sensitive legislative frameworks • Training women councillors and selected male councillors to acquire skills in effective lobbying • Development of a gender sensitive land justice toolkit to equip judges with skills in land justice dispensation • Capacity building and support for 3 district networks to strengthen lobbying and influencing skills on vio
Audit on Procurement of GESTERRA (Land Administration)
General
The Embassy of Sweden in Maputo (EoS) supports a capacity building support to land administration under a project named GESTERRA in Mozambique since September 2013. The programme is co-financed between the Government of Mozambique, Sweden and the Embassy of the Netherlands. The program is under the leadership of DINAT (Direccão Nacional de Terras) in the Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development (MITADER). The total budget for GESTERRA amounts to USD 21 864 064 out of which the donors contribute with USD 15 820 000 and where Sweden’s part is maximum of USD 9 000 000 (SEK 45 000 000). The support to GESTERRA is regulated through an agreement between Sweden and the Government of Mozambique. In Annex 3 of the Agreement it is stipulated that Sweden will finance (financing not part of the budget of GESTERRA) independent Annual Procurement Audits for procurements made within GESTERRA above USD 15 000 (excluding VAT). This Decision concerns to such audit and shall cover the three first year’s activity period: 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Social and Economic Empowerment of Smallholder Producers in Rural Malawi
General
1. Advocate for the enactment of the land related Laws to support government implementation of the national Land Policy 2. Monitor implementation of the National Land Policy - specifically Landnet is interested in monitoring the land transactions and how they are affecting the livelihoods of rural people more especially women; compensation and resettlement of people due to large scale land investments or grabbing; the Land Governance Assessment Framework will be used 3. Awareness building on the land policy and land related laws 4. Strengthen coordination and collaboration amongst partners in the land policy reform process