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No! In Their Own Words: What indigenous people against the River Club development have to say
26 June 2022
The controversial River Club site in Cape Town, where giant international retailer Amazon plans to build a South African headquarters, has been embroiled in a protracted legal battle – with rival indigenous groups campaigning for and against the development. Here are the voices of indigenous…
Deaths of Phillips and Pereira shine light on a region of the Amazon beset by violence
16 June 2022
Brazilian police reported on June 15 that they had found the bodies believed to be those of Brazilian Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips deep in the western Amazon. The bodies were found not far from where the pair disappeared on June 5, in the Vale do Javari…
Tanzania: UN experts warn of escalating violence amidst plans to forcibly evict Maasai from ancestral lands
16 June 2022
UN human rights experts* have expressed grave concerns about continuous encroachment on traditional Maasai lands and housing, accompanied by a lack of transparency in, and consultation with the Maasai Indigenous Peoples, during decision making and planning. This trend most recently culminated in…
Projects
Enhancing Customary Justice Systems in the Mau Forest: Kenya
Duration: January 2010 - January 2014
Value: $490,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The Enhancing Customary Justice Systems in the Mau Forest (Justice) Project piloted an approach for improving women’s access to customary justice, particularly related to women’s land rights, by enhancing the customary justice system in one target area. The work also resulted in a clearer understand
Land and Rural Development Project: Colombia
Duration: January 2013 - January 2018
Value: $67,500,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The Land and Rural Development Program began in July 2013 and is a five-year task order under the Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights Indefinite Quantity Contract. The program helps the Government of Colombia improve its ability to resolve the many complicated land issues that have plagued the
Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel – Enhanced Resilience
Duration: January 2015 - January 2018
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
USAID’s Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel – Enhanced Resilience (REGIS-ER) program works to increase the resilience of chronically vulnerable people, households, communities and systems in targeted agro-pastoral and marginal agriculture livelihood zones in Niger and Burkina Faso. This will
Tenure and Global Climate Change: Global
Duration: January 2013 - January 2018
Value: $13,400,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
Globally, the impacts of climate change and society’s response are significantly affecting resource tenure governance, the rights of communities and people, and their livelihoods. In turn, resource tenure and property rights issues are widely recognized as crucial in the success of many climate chan
From Commitment to Practice (C2P)
Duration: September 2016 - March 2019
Value: £658,210.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The C2P project aimed to support the operationalization of private sector commitments to addressing land rights by working closely with a leading private sector company, Illovo Sugar, to apply VGGT principles to company practice, including and piloting the application of VGGT-based Analytical Fra
Applying the VGGT to the responsible development of a large-scale oil palm plantation in Sierra Leone
Duration: September 2016 - March 2019
Value: £607,685.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Natural Habitats Sierra Leone (NHSL) acquired an oil palm concession of over 40,000 hectares from a previous owner, planning to produce organic palm oil from plantations to be developed within it. The concession covered the entire Makpele Chiefdom, located in Pujehun District in Eastern Sierra Leo
Ngorongoro Evictions a Bad Idea: People and Nature Can Coexist
11 June 2022
Lucas Yamat and Pablo Manzano The future of Ngorongoro has been the subject of hot debate among various stakeholders following a proposal by the government of Tanzania to relocate pastoralists from the district in order to conserve this important World Heritage site. The proposal is based on claims…
Post COP26 Reflections: A Focus on Opportunities for Customary Land Rights
19 May 2022
May 19th 2022 at 9:00AM-10:30AM EST (15:00 PM– 16:30 PM CEST) 2021 was a year of big promises concerning tenure rights. At COP26, an unprecedented 1.7 billion dollar pledge was made in support of ancestral community land rights, aiming to place IPLCs rights central to global policy-making and…
