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ASCUT: ASCUT is a network of civil society organization and intergovernmental organizations working together to promote secure and lobbying for pro-poor land policies and laws. The alliance has been in existence since 2014 and has working to a number of local policies, laws and administrative systems over land for poor women and men through advocacy, dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building. ASCUT is hosted on JOINT, League of NGOs in Mozambique. JOINT connect and strengthen the institutions of civil society in order to improve collective action for the common good as well as the dialogue with the Government and Private Sector. Operational strategies [National level]: Partner with national-level responsibility to strengthen the link between activists and the academe, as well as in a direct and positive mode of engagement with government and other intergovernmental agencies. Also organize dialogues with relevant stakeholders, sharing policy positions on land rights and coordinating support for activities on improving tenure security and capacity development on land issues and policies. It is also responsible on pressuring and influencing the parliament [Land Commission] land issues and policies. Geographical location of interventions of counterpartner: National / Central level General terms the interventions strategies that will be applied: Research and influence activities # CSOs increasingly participate in or initiate influencing and advocacy efforts on access to land farmers especially

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Through this project, NGO Forum on Cambodia (NGOF) will contribute on policy formulation and monitoring of the functioning of the existing laws and policies related to land rights to support community land rights, especially Indigenous Peoples community for land tenure, maintaining traditional culture of Indigenous Peoples and ability of access to control over and benefit from natural resource, contribution to adequate food and poverty reduction. NGO-Forum on Cambodia has designed following activities: 1- Maintaining in providing information and technical support to policy makers on Agricultural land management, Environmental Code and Environmental Impact Assess law to ensure the adopted laws are benefit to the poor and marginalized group. 2- Monitoring the implementation of the existing laws and policies namely land law, while land policy, forestry law and national policy on development partnership of privatesector with as well the impact of agriculture policies relating to climate change 3- Work with Network member of Land and Housing Rights Network (LAHRIN), Indigenous People and Forestry Network (IPFN) to influencing the government to resolve land disputes, preventing or mitigating the negative impacts of development projects such as Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) and mining issue in Cambodia.

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The Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust (WLSA) is a regional non-governmental organization (NGO) that conducts research on the situation of women's rights in seven southern African countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. WLSA Mozambique defines itself as a feminist organization, which means that: It recognizes that there is currently a situation of injustice in society where women are less likely to enjoy their citizenship rights, less access to resourcesand decision-making bodies. It seeks to act in defense of gender equality, bearing in mind that change can only be effective if thepatriarchal power structures that guarantee and reproduce women's subordination are shaken. WLSA Mozambique is an organization of note. A very powerful Womens Right Organization that will join us as an implementing partner for this next phase of the project. The adhesion of WLSA to the project will respond to identified gap in previous phases in regard to a stronger gender perspective of the project. WLSA's engagement in the EI is rather recent compared to the traditional Civil Society players in this male dominated area. In 2016, WLSA undertook a study Corporações Económicas e expropriação: raparigasmulheres e comunidades reassentadas no distrito deMoatize (Economic Corporations and Expropriation the case of girls, women and resettled communities in Moatize district) which assesses the impact of the mining industry on communities in Moatize district, in particular the populations affected by the establishment of the Vale and ICVL companies. The results of the study were then applied to train activists advocating the protection and defense of human rights, with a special focus of those of women andgirls. The study focused on the power dynamics between women and men when participating in decision making related to resettlement. More recently WLSA undertook a research in Pemba (Cabo delgado province) as well obeying the same approach applied in TeteProvince study. After finalization of the study, it was launched with a wide coverage of the local media.