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International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technic

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is an international financial institution, established in 1944 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, that is the lending arm of World Bank Group. The IBRD offers loans to middle-income developing countries. The IBRD is the first of five member institutions that compose the World Bank Group. The initial mission of the IBRD in 1944, was to finance the reconstruction of European nations devastated by World War II. The IBRD and its concessional lending arm, the International Development Association (IDA), are collectively known as the World Bank as they share the same leadership and staff.

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Agri-Enterprise in Sunflower, Soya bean, SIm sim and Sorgham for Small Scale Far

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This project works to enable communities in Northern Uganda to establish small scale sustainable commercial farming operations generating incomes for families supporting orphans. The project will establish 3 new Farmer Co-operatives, supported by agricultural, business, financial & land-rights awareness training. It also work with whole communities to empower women to achieve equal rights and voice through training ‘Community Land Advocacy agents’ who improve understanding and respect for land rights, with a focus on wider gender and community relations. Previous projects have demonstrated this approach to be successful.

F.a: Rural women?s movement building and strenthening of agroecological practises in Gaza

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Smallholder farmers are estimated to produce around 90% of the food eaten in Mozambique. The vast majority of smallholder farmers are women. The demand for food is increasing as the population grows, but at the same time food production is challenged by extreme weather events caused by climate change. The Mozambican government has responded to food insecurity in key food-producing areas such as Nampula by promoting industrial production based on external inputs. The formalisation of smallholder farmers' land tenure has been accompanied by efforts to link the transition to commercial inputs. As a result, soil conditions have deteriorated, biodiversity has suffered, people have been forced to work in conditions approaching serfdom, nutrition has further deteriorated and income inequalities have widened. Moreover, land tenure rights are generally granted to men, while women are responsible for cultivation. Feminist agroecology and women's empowerment offer a sustainable solution to these challenges. The immediate outcomes of the project are expected to be (i) increased crop production and productivity by women small-scale farmers in Chibuto district through the adoption of sustainable agroecological production methods, (ii) active participation and advocacy of women small-scale farmers in Chibuto in the national land tenure reform process, and (iii) strengthened organizational capacity of rural women through institutional strengthening of FOMMUR. The direct beneficiaries of the project will be the 600 women participating in project activities in the 4 project communities in Chibuto. They earn their livelihoods from farming. It is estimated that 20% of them are persons with disabilities and 15% are young people. The women in the farmers' associations are expected to transfer their learning to other people in their communities through the farmer-to-farmer method. The number of such indirect beneficiaries of the project is estimated at 3 000. The project is implemented by Livaningo - Associação para a Preservação e Defesa do Meio Ambiente (https://livaningo.co.mz/ ) in partnership with the Fórum Moçambicano das Mulheres Rurais (FOMMUR).

F.a: Promoting Land Rights and Access to Justice Albertine Region in Uganda

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Buliisa Initiative for Rural Development Organization (BIRUDO) was founded in 2006 and is registered as a local NGO in Uganda. The organisation?s office is in Buliisa, north-western Uganda. BIRUDO?s mission is to improve the livelihoods of the local communities and the focus areas of the organisation are education, health, environment, natural resources and extractive industry governance, livelihood, income and food security. www.birudo.org BIRUDO engages with communities affected by development projects through a variety of means, including ?know your rights? workshops and other initiatives to increase legal literacy; support for community-based paralegals; and trainings on the use of the Right to Information laws and advocacy. BIRUDO supports access to justice for affected communities by supporting them in mediations, hiring lawyers to represent them in court, and linking them with global networks to help file complaints with international development banks. BIRUDO works closely with affected communities to advocate for land rights and adequate compensation when their land is taken for development projects. BIRUDO builds relationships between communities facing development-related human rights concerns and other groups in BIRUDO?s networks. They exchange strategic information and resources, strengthen capacities, and engage in collective action that enables us to defend human rights and promote community-led priority-setting and decision-making. Overall Project Goal: To contribute to promotion of land and properties rights and access to justice in Albertine Region in Uganda by 2024. Specific Project Objectives:Objective 1: To increase land laws, policies, procedures, oil-related policies, national climate change policy and Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) principles awareness in Albertine Region in Uganda by 2024. Objective 2: To reduce land rights violation cases and human rights abuses in Albertine Region in Uganda by 2024.

Multinational - Development of forest byproducts and reforestation of degraded areas in central Africa

Objectives

The sectoral objective of the project is to contribute to the mitigation of deforestation and forest degradation in natural forests through the processing of forest scrap and the restoration of degraded surfaces and the reduction of poverty in the Congo Basin. Its specific objectives are: (i) the transformation of forest scrap; (ii) the reduction of degraded land by shifting cultivation on burning; (iii) reforestation of 50% of degraded areas; (iv) the creation of a revolving fund to support the populations in their activities of improvement of living environment; and (v) improving the governance of land management through the establishment of local management platforms.