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In Cambodia there are many organization and institutions that work on indigenous people in capacity building, various knowledge about the rights to freedom of expression, political rights, the rights access to social protection. Although many relevant organization and institutions paid attention on indigenous women but their problem have not been responded yet. Seeing this, minority women from different indigenous group have common idea to establish the indigenous women network to voice their issues and concems and, hold the government and private sector to account and protect. The benefit of their communities. On 02 September 2018 women’ group organized a consultation workshop on the establishment of the first women’s network in Cambodia, coordinated bythe Cambodia Indigenous People Alliance (CIPA), Cambodia Indigenous People Organization (CIPO) Highlander Association (HA). Following its inception, the women’s group received supported from International Indigenous Women Forum (IIWF) through the CambodiaIndigenous People’ financial system to carry out its activity starting in April 2019. In 2020 the women’s group have prepared its action plan according to the old plan from last year, discussed with the members who do not yet have the budget to support and implement out the activity. For the women’steam, there are many issues and needs that must be push and addressed indigenous communities, such as land rights issues decimationissue, economic, education, mining issue and climate change issue. The project was developed by seeing the impact of mining investment in Mondulkiri and its potential impacts on community’s livelihood, heath, and environment and to empower IP women to take control and protect their resources and, ensure social and, environmental safeguarding. In addition, the women would like to have frequent training or meeting with communities living around mining investment area to strengthen their capacity to recognize their rights to participate in the early stages of researches and environmental assessment. Community awareness on the impact prevention methods are important to seek intervention from the company and the ministry of the mines and energy to take strict action against the activities of its workers who violate the national law. The strengthening IP women network in the mining-affected area of communities, forests communities, and indigenous collective communities is crucial to voice their concems and hold the government and company accountable. Oxfam through EI project 2022is partnering with CIPO/CIWA to continue implementing the project namely "Strengthening the rights and collective voice of indigenous women to prevent their rights from the impact of mining investment in Keo Seima District, Mondulkiri province." The overall objective of the project is "IPs Women and men realized their rights to protect their community and environment from potential mining impacts." To achieve this the project will focus on community organizing, building institutional capacity and identity of IPs communities, uphold FPIC and IPs' rights, their capacity to monitor impacts and their collective voicesto negotiate with the government and private sectors to account and mitigate social and environmental impacts on their communities.

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The overall objective of this project is to contribute to the empowerment of local Oxfam partners in the sound management of ecosystems and resilience to the effects of climate change.Land degradation and the persistent decline in fertility of already poor and acidic soils are the main obstacles to agricultural productivity in Burundi. The high population density and the high rate of demographic growth (over 3% / year; Population projections 2010-2050 National and Provincial Level, ISTEEBU; April 2017) exert enormous pressure on the use of cultivable land. This pressure is all the stronger as agriculture remains the main occupation of the majority of the Burundian population, cultivating small plots (0.5 ha / family), which cover about 50% of the territory. Climate change is worsening the situation as Burundi's capacity to cope with climate shocks remains extremely low.In addition, the high demographics of thepopulation lead to reduced soil fertility through overexploitation of existing agricultural areas and increased use of marginal land for agriculture, in addition to deforestation and loss of biodiversity. The lack of adequate management of soil fertility at the family farm scale and at the landscape scale favors the maintenance of the vicious circle of land degradation with the consequent drop in productivity. agriculture, farmers' incomes and food and nutrition security of farm households.The main implementing partners of the project are: Oxfam in Burundi and its local partners who have a perfect understanding of the challenges and possibilities of Burundian agriculture thanks to their strong involvement in the agricultural sector, both scientific and practical. scale of the individual family farm, group, IGG (mutual aid and solidarity groups) and/ or cooperative.This project will focus its actions on the empowerment of local partners so that they can scale the achievements of the PRCCRCC project of the 1st phase by basing itself above all on the hill community visions developed in collaboration with the beneficiaries as well as actions linked to agroecology on familyfarms. The focus will be on three sectors: ecological agriculture (choice of agricultural inputs, cultivation techniques, post-harvest techniques, packaging and marketing), energy and the political framework. Ecological agriculture: the project will focus on theuse of organic matter, biofertilizers, bio pesticides to increase family production, erosion control through soil protection and agroforestry systems; valorization of biomass and increase of soil fertility; intensification of peasant food crops and promotion of cover crops resilient to climate change, development of short-cycle varieties, reduction of the use of synthetic agricultural inputs;reduction of losses and runoff of rain and residual water as well as optimization of its use for agricultural purposes. Energy: this involves the promotion of improved mobile and fixed wood and charcoal stoves, as well as action research on other technologies and the use of other energy sources. Political framework: this mainly involves improving communication through information, training and research and development to strengthen the capacities of stakeholders at all levels in taking into account the effects of climate change and promoting agroecology at the central (public policies, sector strategies, etc.) and local (communities, local communitydevelopment plans, communities, etc.) level, based on the popularization of the advances already made (establishment of a legal framework, institutional framework, the various tools and structures, etc.). The project will also work in participatory action research to find with the beneficiaries mechanisms, technologies and other tools that can be valued at the local level to mitigate the effects of climate change on households and the promotion of agroecology. These mechanisms will focus on agroecology, energy, water management and organic products. Indeed, it has been observed that mechanisms aiming at resilience have been developed in certain cases to counter the possible effects of climate change (seed stock, staggered sowing, commercial breeding, etc.) but the field of investigation remains quite wide. especially with regard to water management, maintenance of soil fertility.

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LAND-at-scale contributes to improving land governance and can be beneficial to economic development, peace and stability in developing countries. The programme supports actions and interventions that contribute to sustainable livelihoods, better food and nutrition security and social justice. LAND-at-scale strives to contribute towards more equal access to land and natural resources, reduced conflicts and competing claims over land and natural resources and more sustainable and efficient use of land and natural resources for food, housing and production. As a result, LAND-at-scale will contribute directly to SDGs: 1, 2, 5, 11, 15 and 17 and may contribute indirectly to SDG 8, 9, 10, 13 and 16.