Objectives

Global Witness seeks to prevent natural-resource related conflict and violence by improving natural resource-related regulatory reform and governance to address the potential for natural resource revenues to become a target for state looting and corruption and tackling the complicity of the trade, financial and associated sectors in facilitating corruption and conflict. Global Witness has three stated main objectives (results and indicators are included in the funding application): ¿ Conflict - stopping natural resources from being the cause of conflict, and from financing conflict and human rights abuses. ¿ Environmental governance - stop forest destruction, end abusive and secret land deals, promote the rights and voice of local people and examine unsustainable demand and inequitable distribution of resources. ¿ Corruption - prevent resources being siphoned off and used to prop up corrupt, greedy and unaccountable elites. Global Witness¿ theory of change is based on the logic that in order to ensure that revenue from natural resources drives peaceful and sustainable development in the world¿s poorest countries, the global legal framework, the policies of governments and multilateral bodies and the behaviour of private companies and financial institutions must be changed. In order to achieve this three areas of activities are conducted: ¿ Investigate. ¿ Expose and inform. ¿ Advocate for systemic change

General

Large land areas in Cameroon are under agribusiness and logging concessions. While private sector investments hold out promise for green development and poverty reduction, the country faces key governance challenges, including a legal system in flux and weak regulation of rural land relations. Uncoordinated, overlapping investments have created scarcity in specific places, and tensions between investors and communities. The government has launched a process to revise the country’s land laws. This offers opportunities to promote more just, equitable, and effective approaches to land governance. Against that backdrop, this action-research project, implemented by the Cameroon-based Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement will test two sets of interventions: a local-level community-investor dialogue process, supported by junior lawyers and local support staff, and a national-level process to facilitate effective public participation in land policy and reform debates. The project will examine strategies to: enable communities, women, youth, and indigenous groups to secure their tenure rights in the face of land-related investments and address community-investor challenges; facilitate the equitable participation of organizations representing marginalized groups, including women, youth, and indigenous peoples, in national-level policy debates; and address social differentiation and power imbalances at both the local and national levels. Findings are expected to contribute to the improved ability of communities to secure their tenure rights; the more equitable participation of women and indigenous groups in local land governance and decision-making processes; improved capacity of civil society organizations to contribute to land reform processes; and the sharing of lessons internationally. This project is part of a group of IDRC-supported projects in sub-Saharan Africa entitled “Using action research to improve land rights and governance for communities, women, and vulnerable groups”.

Objectives

Promote landscape integrity and sustainable beef and soy value chains in two key biomes in Paraguay.

Other

Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.

Target Groups

326. The direct beneficiaries of the Project are 7,270 people, of whom 431 are women and 6,839 are men, living in the selected intervention areas.327. Project support will develop the capacities of the beneficiaries to: i) participate actively in territorial planning and development and implementation of land use plans; ii) participate in dialogue platforms and establish collaboration relationships among different sectors (public, private, NGOs, community organizations); iii) increase their awareness and knowledge on the importance of conserving biodiversity and ensuring the sustainability of the ecosystem services on which agricultural production depends; iv) better comply with the environmental legal framework for conservation and restoration of ecosystems ; v) apply biodiversity-friendly and sustainable land management practices for the sustainable use of resources and ecosystems; and vi) develop alternatives to diversify production and incomes.328. Under Component 1, through training 270 people (189 men and 81 women, including 30 indigenous peoples) from national and local governments as well as key beneficiaries will have improved capacities for planning, implementation and monitoring of urban and territorial management plans, for monitoring and enforcement of environmental policies and gender mainstreaming. In addition the involvement of beneficiaries through their organizations (producer associations, cooperatives, women´s organizations, indigenous people’s organizations that are relevant to the project) in the participatory processes and decision making to develop the POUTs will strengthen their economic, social and political empowerment. The resulting POUTs will incorporate the socio-economic proposals prioritized by the beneficiaries, including differentiated activities/budgets for women and indigenous peoples to guarantee their participation and respond adequately to their practical needs, strategic interests and key demands. 329. Under Component 2 the beneficiary target groups (producer associations, cooperatives, women´s organizations, indigenous people’s organizations) through participating in the soy and beef platforms will strengthen their political, social and economic empowerment. In these spaces, they will take part in dialogues, negotiations and decision making on an equal footing with public sector, traders, financial and other stakeholders on issues such as land use planning, sustainable production standards, financing, land and forest restoration, green seals, market access and responsible purchasing, gender and interculturality. This will enable to include proposals that balance the social, economic and environmental aspects of their development in the action plans of the platforms. By participating in the women´s platform and indigenous peoples working groups, women and indigenous peoples will strengthen their advocacy capacities. This will enable them to participate more actively and perform more efficiently in the platform meetings with all stakeholders with the purpose of proposing and incorporating gender and culturally sensitive actions that respond to their interests in the action plans of the platforms. In addition, 2,000 producers (5% women as minimum initial estimate to be confirmed during implementation) will be strengthened to apply land use planning and management with biodiversity considerations, SLM and adopt sustainable production standards. This will seek firstly to reverse or reduce land degradation at the farm level, so that in a second stage it will be possible to increase the productivity of these areas, thereby increasing the income generated for the producer, while conserving and restoring forests and biodiversity and enhancing carbon stocks. Women producers will be prioritized in the selection of demonstration farms and will receive technical and financial assistance to implement sustainable practices. This will allow to position and highlight women as producers and leaders, improve their economy and will serve as motivation for other women when exchanging experiences with their peers, increasing the interest of women in land planning and management as well as greater participation in training and outreach activities sponsored by the project (webinars, workshops and other events).330. Under Component 3, small landowners and communities (small farmers and indigenous peoples) will be supported to develop gender-sensitive and culturally relevant management plans for income diversification and investments. Beneficiaries will benefit from technical assistance to implement plans, including equipment, inputs, materials and training required for the productive proposals identified in their plans, increasing their food safety and achieving income diversification, while contributing to habitat conservation and restoration and carbon stock enhancement. Furthermore, the project will produce an analysis comparing property income with and without forest resource management, presenting numerical values to be able to show producers the economic value of maintaining forest resources (forest maintenance costs vs potential income from marketing environmental services certificates) that will serve to demonstrate landowners the advantages for becoming interested in restoration and subsequent certification under Law 3001/06. This will help generate additional incomes for landowners while enhancing forest conservation and restoration in their properties.331. Under Component 4, 5.000 producers (5% women as minimum initial estimate to be confirmed during implementation) will have increased their understanding and knowledge on the environmental regulatory framework, sustainable production practices, BD conservation, SLM and will be able to replicate the experiences and socio-economic benefits generated through Components 2 and 3.332. Project interventions and enhanced beneficiary capacities will result in local and regional benefits in terms of better livelihoods, preservation of rural lifestyle, cultural reassertion, and environmental sustainability that contribute to supporting long-term global environmental benefits. In particular, the benefits are: i) Conserving, restoring and maintaining ecosystem services provided by forests and other ecosystems; ii) Maintaining cultural, aesthetic and spiritual benefits, scenic beauty, preserving places of cultural significance, territorial identity, and valuing the natural heritage; iii) Economic benefits through new sources of diversification, income, food security of small holders, local and indigenous communities; iv) Social benefits in terms of alliances and empowerment of local communities and stakeholders (including women and indigenous peoples).

General

The Project Development Objectives (PDO) are to support sustainable land management practices and increase communities’ monetary and non-monetary benefits, in targeted project areas which are mainly in erosion prone rural upland areas. Farmers and their forest and pasture users associations, action groups and individuals spanning 310 rural communes and 2980 villages in the country will benefit either directly or indirectly from the grant funds and other Project activities. Sida will provide an equivalent amount or 68,45 million SEK equal to the IBRD loan and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) will provide ca 20 million SEK. In total approx.160 million SEK will be administrated by the World Bank in a Trust Fund.

General

Under pillar 2 of the Joint Cooperation Program Bangladesh, the metamodel for integrated assessment, that was developed during the Formulation of Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, will be further developed into an operational decision-support tool for adaptive planning, with the aim to support the development of operational investment strategies for the regional and thematic delta programs. In order to enhance specification and ownership, we decided to change the name into Bangladesh metamodel. The Bangladesh Plan 2100 is a long-term, integrated, and holistic vision of water and land management throughout Bangladesh. In the implementation of the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, a major task for the Government of Bangladesh will be the continuous cycle of selecting and enhancing projects and programs to be submitted for Five Year Plans (FYPs) and Annual Development Plans (ADPs). The main objective of the metamodel is to support adaptive delta planning (IWRM and ICZM) by key stakeholders such as the General Economics Division, Ministry of Water Resources and others in investment planning and integrated assessment. The Bangladesh metamodel is developed in close collaboration with the project SIBDP, which will provide advisory support to the GED. The Bangladesh metamodel will be developed to support the formulation, analysis and evaluation of alternative projects and programs. Another important objective of the programme is to build capacity at different agencies in Bangladesh for developing, using and owning the metamodel, and develop a structure to embed its maintenance and operation in an effective way. Output of the Bangladesh metamodel In this four-year programme an operational version of the Bangladesh metamodel is extensively developed, tested and applied. In addition, capacity is built at agencies in Bangladesh to be able to maintain and operate the Bangladesh metamodel, as well as extend the model in the future. The metamodel will be dedicated for use in decision-making in the implementation of the BDP2100, with the General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning Commission as primary client. During the programme, application in other Delta and water resources planning processes will be explored. The BWDB, DAE, LGED, BIWTA, DOF, DOE and regional planning and implementation agencies (as example: BMDA and HDB) have been identified as further potential clients of the Bangladesh metamodel. The Bangladesh metamodel will be based on existing data, knowledge and detailed models. There will be no development of new data, knowledge and detailed models. Ownership and roles for organizations will be developed during the project to ensure sustainability after JCP, as well as attention to strong participation from end-users in an iterative approach.