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In Uganda, women’s land and property rights are not easily realizable despite having highly rated gender sensitive constitution. This is because of deeply rooted patriarchal attitudes in society that often relegate women’s land right to merely user rights and impracticalities in implementing well designed laws. Ironically it is women (75% - 80%) who produce foods for consumption in Uganda andbeyond. The situation would be different if they enjoy all bundles of land rights, i.e. ownership, control and user rights. In other words, production would exponentially increase and then eliminate hunger and poverty. In fact according to UBOS, 2014, women’s ownership and control of land directly increases production by 40%. Although the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, 1995 as amended, provides for ownership of land by every Ugandan citizen, there is still a huge gender gap between the women and men of Uganda inownership of land as only 20% of the women own land according to the Human Development SurveyUnited Nations Development Fund Report, 2019. During the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (WPF) grant for the year 2020/2021, Oxfam Uganda engaged in Generation Equality Forum (GEF); the Beijing +25 process since 2019, which included supporting and coordinating civil society engagement at national and regional levels, rendered support to grassroots women this year in collaboration with the Gender Is My Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) network and International Land Coalition (ILC, we organised an online meeting toinfluence adoption of the Kilimanjaro Charter of Demands, as a reference for the ambitions of women in Africa with regard to land and also as a guide for land governance in African countrieswhich was attended by representatives of the African Union LandPolicy Centre and United Nation Economic Commission for Africa, supported the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA) to advocate for the rights of indigenous women through theCEDAW process, continued our work to ensure the international and regional commitments that safeguard women’s land and natural resource rights are implemented in countries, continued our engagement on implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, focused on developing gender transformative leadershipinorder to ensure sustainable change and to combat both individual and systemic barriers with regard to women’s land and natural resource rights, facilitated documentation of women’s land rights cases and stories to support our campaigning, such as LandRights Now, the Kilimanjaro women’s initiative campaign and the Land Inequality campaign, currently being formulated. Our work for the year 2021/2022 will continue the work on Beijing +25 through working with Action Coalition leaders such as the Huairou Commission and FEMNET for the next five years of the Generation Equality Action Coalitions. We will continue to promote gender transformative leadership to strengthen women’s land and natural resource governance, working with countries to use and adaptexisting tools. We are training CSOs on parallel reporting, which enables them to engage with their national governments on implementation of and reporting on SDG land rights targets. Around the HLPF we create platforms for CSOs to report and build momentum, highlighting the importance of land rights in the SDGs so as to achieve the SDGs and will be easy to navigate, facilitate accessing data on land tenure, and accompanying narratives/stories that elaborate on progress made based on the data presented.We willcontinue our work with the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA) focusing on strengthening indigenous women’s position in CEDAW, this grant will continue to play a key role in supporting Oxfam’s leadership and coordinationof international advocacy work, We will continue to work with allies to coordinate and promote campaigns such as Land Rights Now, Kilimanjaro Campaign and Land Inequality. For the coming year our work will support all three campaigning efforts, with a focus onLand Inequality.

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The programme will empower precarious workers in the highly informal agri-food sector - mostly micro, small and medium enterprises - in 3 ASEAN member-states (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) with the aim of addressing their rights, needs and vulnerabilities through the promotion of three pillars of the JSF Decent Work: labour rights at work, social protection and social dialogue for all. Climate change impacts, economic insecurity and occupational safety and health of these workers will be addressed by more adequate and shock-responsive social protection measures. Labour law enforcement will be enhanced to upgrade their livelihoods. In this project, VCCI will provide technical assistance to companies in rice and shrimp sectors to increase their understandingand awareness of labor and social protection issues and other sustainable standards. VCCI will take lead in building capacity for SMEs and ensure their compliance with national and international regulations and laws on labors, social protection issues. VCCI will play an important role in establishing and supporting Multi-stakeholders Initiatives to contribute to policy and advocacy processs.

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The Climate Insurance, Finance and Resilience Project (CLINFIREP) seeks to promote the development of climate-resilient infrastructure and agricultural diversification using climate-smart agriculture practices to enhance Climate Resilience for sustained economic growth in Mozambique. The project also supports the Government national preparedness plan to reduce social vulnerability to drought through adoption of preventive insurance policies and programs and helping strengthen national capacity to respond to climate disasters. This is an important intervention as the effects and impacts of climate change are already being felt in the form of erratic and inadequate rainfall patterns and declining on-farm productivity. The total project cost is 33.94 million Units of Account (47.78 million dollars) and will be implemented over 5 years (2021-2026) in the 10 drought prone districts of the Maputo Province, Gaza and Inhambane Province. It builds on past investments by the Bank on drought resilience and is well aligned with the Government of Mozambique (GoM’s) priorities particularly the Disaster Risk Reduction, Emergency Fund, the National Adaptation Plans and the overall policy framework on climate change adaptation and mitigation. It is anticipated that the outcomes of the Project will increase GoM’s institutional capacity to develop climate proof integrated development programs and devise adequate climate insurance products, in the targeted areas in Mozambique. The CLINFIREP will also facilitate the participation of the country in the sovereign insurance pool of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) or other insurance mechanisms, which supports countries that experience climate shocks, including droughts and tropical cyclones.

Objectives

The CLINFIREP proposes to reduce the impact of climate events and strengthen the resilience capacity of communities and production systems to better cope with the effects of drought, which are exacerbated by rural poverty, food insecurity, and land degradation. The specific objectives of the project are: (i) to improve climate resilient infrastructure (ii) to promote climate-resilient income-generating activities and strengthen food security and nutrition and (iii)to enhance insurance mechanisms against climate-related disasters.

Target Groups

The Project will benefit the communities of the selected districts, displaced people in the Cabo Delgado Province, the Government at large, particularly the National Institute of Disaster Management (INGD), including the Disaster Management Fund (DMF), Food Security and Nutrition Secretariate (SETSAN), and Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Internal Waters (MOPH), Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC), Ministry of Land and Environment (MTA) and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER) and the respective agencies at provincial and district levels where the Project will be implemented, through additional capacity and, technical and financial resources, to address their development challenges. The direct beneficiaries of the Project interventions are anticipated at around 500,000 people affected by droughts in the Southern regions of the country, of which at least 54% are women and youth. While in the northern Mozambique, the project will support some of the displaced people that have been affected by the armed groups. Other indirect beneficiaries include the private sector, the agricultural marketing enterprises, commercial and investment Banks, farmers’ groups and their representatives at the farmers’ associations.

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Reprogrammed funds to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 The proposed intervention is a core support of SEK 190 million 2018-2022 to The Tenure Facility (TF), of which SEK 130 million from the Strategy for Globally Sustainable Economic Development, and SEK 60 million from Strategy for Sustainable Environment, Climate, Oceans and Use of Natural Resources. The contribution is also highly relevant to the Strategy for Human Rights, Democratization and Rule of Law. In addition, the European Commission plans to channel EUR 7 million via Sida in a delegated cooperation agreement for core support. This support is planned for 2019-2021. The TF aims to secure land and forest rights for Indigenous peoples and local communities in the developing world by providing project support to the communities, civil society, and to some extent to governments. Government support and involvement is always required for a project to be accepted. This proposed intervention will be the first considerable direct support to this new organization. It has approximately the same annual amount as the previous phase, that was channeled through RRI. Thus far, it has received direct funding from the Ford Foundation, 3 MUSD in 2017 and 2018.Access to land and natural resources for rural poor is often based on customary tenure, which tends to be insecure due to a lack of political, legal and administrative recognition, and contradictions between the formal and informal systems. This leads to a situation of insecurity for these local communities that affects most aspects of life, such as access to and/or security of livelyhoods, including food, water, housing and source of income, political rights to participate in processes that concern the land you live on and the land you have used for generations, the social rights and traditions that relate to the community; how you take decisions, plan your production, etcetera. Collective tenure is often not considered in the legal systems, and insecure collective tenure often concerns forest. Therefore, both RRI and the TF have a focus on forest lands, although grazelands and agricultural lands also can be considered for support. Fortunately, the global advocacy over the last decades - by RRI and others - for the political and legal recognition of communal land rights for indigenous peoples (IPs) and local communities have resulted in considerable advances and adapted legal frameworks in many countries. However, all this leeway did not give secure tenure on the ground, since there is a void in implementation and in administrative recognition. The lack of implementation should not automatically be interpreted as a lack of political will or of resources – but often a lack of capacity, information and experience. It is a new field of work for government administration as well as for NGOs and communities. RRI concluded that a special focus on the practical aspects of implementation was needed. The TF offers the following kinds of support:Scale up implementation of land and forest tenure reform policies and legislation by:– Providing support to establish legitimate tenure rights in areas where traditional communal rights are not formally recognized– Providing support for community mapping, demarcation, and registration efforts– Strengthening the capacity of national organizations to provide land tenure related services to reach disadvantaged and vulnerable groups Enable governments and communities to test new models, strategies and approaches by:– Testing practical solutions to implementation challenges– Assisting governments and communities to overcome administrative obstacles to land rights recognition and titling– Building capacity of government agencies responsible for titling and protecting indigenous and community rights

Objectives

The Tenure Facility´s five-year Strategic Framework 2018 2022, committed to three overarching outcomes. Outcome 1: The land and forest rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities are made more secure by governments in targeted developing countries. Outcome 2: Practical approaches for implementing and scaling land and forest tenure reforms are distilled, shared and leveraged by practitioners, IPLCs, governments and other stakeholders. Outcome 3: The Tenure Facility continuously improves its operating model to meet Outcomes1 and 2 through increasingly efficient and effective means.

Objectives

The Circular Economy Regional Initiative project will address specific barriers to transitioning to circular economy in the Western Balkans and Turkey by catalysing the scale up of circular economy technologies and processes, as well as adoption of circular strategies and business practices.

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

Target Groups

1. The Project will deliver a range of social and environmental benefits associated with shifting to a circular economy from a linear economy such as:· Reduced materials, energy and water usage. · Decreased demand for new landfills resulting in improvement of land management practices, due to diversion of waste from landfills. Reduced leakages of plastics waste into the water bodies due to reduced landfilling of plastics. · Diversion of waste (especially plastics and chemicals) from landfills will indirectly contribute to increasing the area of landscapes under improved practices.· Reduced costs for companies due to improved production process and circular business models resulting in less dependence on virgin materials.· Improved reputation of the participating companies, which can result in their better positioning in the market.· Capacity building in the participating countries in terms of local know-how and implementation of international best practices resulting from the technical assistance provided under Component 2: Technical assistance for identification of circular economy technologies and processes, and strategy development.· Improved resilience concerning the economic crisis response to the COVID19 outbreak. Some economic effects of the outbreak include significantly disrupted value chains and logistics operations. Shifting to circular economy reduces overreliance on extraction of raw materials and mitigates exposure to supply chain risks to some extent. 2. The Project is anticipated to produce, where possible, other co-benefits consistent with the EBRD’s mandate to support transition. This includes acknowledging gender differences and improvements starting with tracking Project participation by gender. Collection of this type of social data provides input for transition towards equal opportunity. 3. The Project is anticipated to produce, where possible, other co-benefits consistent with the EBRD’s mandate to support transition. This includes acknowledging gender differences and improvements starting with tracking Project participation by gender. Collection of this type of social data provides input for transition towards equal opportunity.