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Displaying 186 - 190 of 228F.a: Promoting biocultural rights of the indigenous and hunter-gatherer Aweer community in Boni, Lamu County
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The project supports the Aweer indigenous people of Lamu County to defend their biocultural rights. The Aweer are nomadic hunter-gatherers living in scattered communities. Their entire cultural existence is increasingly threatened by external threats to their own habitats. The project strengthens their understanding and skills related to their rights and defending them with the tools offered to them by national legislation and international human rights treaties. The project has the following elements: - Trainings related to legislative empowerment - related to land, resources and a clean and safe environment. The Aweer are empowered to face possible illegal displacements and attempts to exploit their territories and traditional knowledge. - Promoting of local and national development plans, which take into account and recognize the culture, identity and traditional rights of the Aweer and other indigenous and local communities. - The process of drafting Aweer biocultural community protocols will be started. Biocultural community protocols highlight the values, customs and needs of communities on the one hand and the rights and obligations of communities on the other. The protocol describes the traditional ways of life of the communities, information about the resources available to the communities and the use of biodiversity. It can be used to highlight the rights and obligations of communities in terms of the management, protection and sustainable use of their territories. - De-gazettement of the Aweer community?s ancestral lands, presently the Boni-Lungi reserve, and its legal recognition as Indigenous Peoples and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs) through a formal and secure land tenure system. The scope of the project includes approx. 20,100 representatives of the Aweer community in the Boni Lungi and Panda Nguo areas of Lamu County. A baseline report on the state of biocultural rights and other environmental justice dynamics of the Sanye community of Lamu county, will also be one output of the project. Indirect beneficiaries are aother indigenous communities of Lamu (such as Bajuni, Swahili, Orma. Experiences among communities in a similar position elsewhere in Kenya (e.g. Ogieks and Sengwers) are shared through the Community Land Action Now (CLAN!) network. The project is implemented by Natural Justice (https://naturaljustice.org/).
F.a: Strengthening and realization of indigenous peoples? biocultural rights with community protocols in Kenya
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The indigenous communities in Kenya have continuously been losing their living areas for activities like forestry, agriculture and mining, or expansion of conservation areas. In addition, outside communities have taken over lands belonging to indigenous peoples. Through these processes, the communities' cultural tradition and natural resource base have been eroded. In this project, the Ogiek, Sengwer, Endorois and Elmolo communities have joined forces in an effort to strengthen their biocultural continuity and push for the rights of indigenous peoples locally, nationally and internationally ? utilizing among other things the international conventions and treaties supporting the rights of the indigenous peoples. This project strengthens the communities' land rights and the protection of biodiversity with the help of community biocultural protocols. They document the cultural structures, management systems and procedures based on the communities' traditional knowledge, their territories and natural resources, assess the challenges facing these, and outline legal and political instruments to strengthen the protection of the community interests. During the implementation of the project and on the basis of its outputs, the understanding of the legal rights of the communities in question and their cultural characteristics will also be increased among key stakeholders (such as the government authorities, the research community and civil society actors). The Ogiek and Sengwer are traditionally hunter-gatherer communities, the Endorois nomads and the Elmolo fishermen. The project presentation is partly a continuation of a project previously supported by Siemenpuu in 2020-21. In this project, for the Ogiek and Sengwer, the aim is to utilize the biocultural protocols prepared in the previous project in the rights related advocacy work. The protocol of the Sengwers is also updated based on the current situation of the community. The biocultural protocol of the Endorois community drawn up in 2019 will be updated. Regarding the Elmolo community, a community protocol will be prepared for them. The project will be implemented in Nakuru, Narok, Baringo, Uasin Gishu, Kericho, Nandi, Trans Nzoia, Elgeyo Marakwet and Marsabit counties. The project is estimated to have approx. 6,000 direct beneficiaries, half of whom are women. The project is implemented by Ogiek Peoples? Development Program (OPDP); https://ogiekpeoples.org/.
F.a: Empowering the Mecuburi Province local communities in natural resource management, agroecological farming
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Industrial-scale investment projects and poor understanding of local communities? role in natural resource management and decision-making have led to conflicts and fears over land and natural resource management in Nampula. Local communities and small-scale farmers have lost their land rights and natural resources have been illegally destroyed, including in the Mecuburi National Reserve. Unorganised local communities have been sidelined in decision-making. In particular, the voices of women, young people and people with disabilities have not been heard. One of the investment plans threatening the region is the industrial agriculture project Desenvolvimento o Vale do Rio Lúrio. It would violate the land rights of small-scale farmers, especially along the Lúrio river. Small-scale farmers are dependent on prices set by middlemen, and deforestation occurs due to uncontrolled fire. Local community organisation, agro-ecological farming methods and preservation of natural resources must be strengthened in order to ensure sustainable livelihoods. The expected results of the project are (i) local communities' trust on their rights to land use and natural resources is strengthened, (ii) increased organisational capacity of local communities and associations in decision-making on natural resource management and in the implementation of programmes for local development, (iii) community men, women and youth understand the importance of the Mecuburi Reserve; and (iv) women, men, youth and persons with disabilities participate in formal and informal decision-making forums related to the conservation of the Mecuburi Reserve and the sustainable use of other local resources. The project beneficiaries are members of local communities who earn their livelihoods from subsistence farming and exploitation of Miombo forests (for charcoal production, firewood and construction) in 8 communities (Mualua A, Mualua B, Namitil, Namicopi, Nihiri, Zero Quilómetros, Macassar and Feira) in the district of Mecuburi, Nampula province. The number of direct beneficiaries is estimated at 8 000, of which 50% are women, 30% are young people (aged between 18 and 40) and 1 000 are persons with disabilities. The number of indirect beneficiaries in the communities is estimated at 30 000. The project is implemented by the Nampula Smallholders' Union, União Provincial de Camponeses de Nampula (UPC-NPL); https://upcnampula.org.mz/.
F.a: Tanzania Country Programme
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The pressure to exploit natural resources, especially forests, is strong in Tanzania. Population growth, growing demand for food, energy and other commodities, as well as illegal logging have negative environmental and social impacts, especially if land-use planning and general governance for the fair and sustainable use of natural resources are weak. The aim of the programme is to restore forests and to expand and develop village forest activities in a climate-sustainable way, through which rural villages earn their livelihood by selling valuables from responsibly managed village forests, as well as other forest products in the East Usambara region. The East Usambara Mountains are a major freshwater catchment area in Tanzania and part of the globally recognized Eastern Arc Mountains biodiversity hotspot. Beneficiaries: Civil society operating in the natural resource sector in Tanzania and the project region, village forest management communities and authorities. Implemented by: WWF Tanzania Partners: Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative (MDCI) https://www.mpingoconservation.org/, Mtandao wa Jamii wa Usimamizi wa Misitu Tanzania (MJUMITA) https://mjumita.or.tz/home/, Friends of Usambara Society https://www.usambaratravels.com/ Changamoto Youth Development Organization, https://www.changamotoyouth.com/
F.a: Implementation of biocultural community protocol to restore Embobut and Kapolet Forests and securing of S
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In 2020-21, Siemenpuu supported the drafting of the biocultural community protocol (BCP) of the Sengwer indigenous people of Kenya as part of a joint project of the organizations of two other hunter-gatherer peoples of Kenya (the Ogiek and the Yiaku). With this support, the basis for the continued work related to the legal, cultural and livelihood foundations of the Sengwer were strengthened. This Sengwer Indigenous Peoples Programme?s (SIPP) project promotes BCP?s use as a tool to protect the interests and rights of the Sengwers of the Embobut and Kapolet forests. In the project, training based on the biocultural protocol of the Sengwer community is given for Sengwer advocacy work, defending land rights and protecting and restoring forests ? also considering the challenges brought by climate change. The training target groups are the representatives of the communities as well as key local level and sectoral government representatives in the project areas. Community representatives are identified and trained to carry out campaign and advocacy work related to human and land rights and climate issues at the county, state and UN level. The project will establish 8 nurseries for both local and non-native tree species with nutritional, economic or agro-forestry potential. The project aims to plant 40,000 trees for restoring natural forests or to utilize the trees in the households. In order to prepare the basis for this work, GIS mapping is carried out on local forest areas and their restoration needs. In addition, information is collected on the effects of climate change in Sengwer communities and their prerequisites for tackling the climate change challenges. The direct beneficiaries of the project are estimated to be around 2,000, of which 500 are women and 400 are children. Indirect beneficiaries are estimated to be around 50,000. They are people in the project areas who benefit from the improved condition of the forests, the climate change mitigation and resilience measures and increased flow of water downstream. It is estimated that there are approximately 33,000 Sengwers in Kenya.