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SIDA II GROW - Transforming the food system to eradicate hunger and fight inequality. Uganda. Uganda is considered one of the world's most vulnerable and least climate-resilient countries (National Adaptation Plan 2015). Changing climate patterns, such as increased droughts, floods and variable precipitation cycles, have a serious impact upon water and other natural resources, agricultural production and rural livelihoods. Climate change has also hard a diverse effects on land use and land resources which has had a directnegative impact on small holder farmers and more especially women who depend on land as the means of production hence accelerating high poverty levels as incomes from agricultural production is increasingly receding. Uganda has several laws, policies, plans, programs, and strategies that favor sustainable agriculture including the National Environmental Management Policy National Land Use Policy (NLUP 2007), the National Policy for the Conservation and Management of Wetlands Resources, National Land Policy, the draft Uganda Organic Agriculture Policy 2009, the Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction policies etc. Uganda is also party to several international frameworks including the Paris agreement, Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Program (CAADP), Sustainable Development Goals, the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) among others. However, the implementation of these laws, policies and international undertakings has been problematic with several commitments unfulfilled. Oxfam in Uganda is proposing influencing the government of Uganda, regional bodies and global governments for adequate financing for climate adaptation models for small holder food producers especially women and youths. We would like to see effective implementation of climate change, agriculture and land policies in the best interest of female small-scale producers and youths. This will include transparency in handling climate adaptation and land resources and resourcing from international sources inclusive budgeting at local and national levels. We would like to see responsible adaptation planning and intentional increased budget allocation to theagriculture sector as well as robust land tenure system that supports small scale food producers capacities. We propose capacity enhancement for govt agencies, community groups, CSOs to be able to effectively advocate for increased Investment in climate adaptation models/approaches that enhance food production among small scale female producers and youths. We will engage the wider public through digital, radio, media and off-line sensitizations and campaigns to demand for increasing financing of adaptation in the agriculture as well as a secured land tenure system that protects small scale female food producers. Other initiatives will include a people#s parliament live televised debate on issues around climate change, impact and the action that people want from the government, and human stories of famers and climate resilience.

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The FAIR company-community partnership works with companies on inclusive and sustainable palm oil production. The partnership offers an alternative business model that will benefit small scale farmers (and their organizations) as well as their communities, the plantation companies with their investors and buyers alike. companies like PepsiCo bring in co-funding. The activities deliver on the four principles of the FAIR partnership approach described by the acronym FAIR: 1. Freedom of choice; 2.Accountability; 3. Improvement and sharing of benefits; 4. Respect for rights, including women's rights and respect for the environment. Central to theFAIR partnership are sustainable land use planning, smallholder inclusion and gender equality. Following consultations with local stakeholders, Oxfam and partners identified the district of Tanjung Jabung Barat (TanJaBar) in Jambi, Indonesia as a priority location for the implementation of the partnership. Selected villages in two sub-districts have been identified because of the following reasons: # transmigration location; houses with land were provided to migrants from Java, initially meant for food production but developed into plots with oil palms; # two anticipated crises related to food security (all food has to be imported from other regions) and challenges of replanting or rehabilitating aging palms. Efforts in the first 18 months of the implementation phase target 1200 households comprising 6,000 beneficiaries, based on average of five people per household, of which approximately 4,800 are indirect beneficiaries. Special attention will be given to women smallholders and to women in affected communities ensuring their active involvement and their increased benefit of the partnership. A diverse group of non-organized farmers in the wider TanJaBar landscape could also be included in YR 2 to 5, more than 6,000 in the two sub districts alone, covering over 18,000 hectares. The initiative will also benefit local and national government authorities, community leaders and members, civil society organizations (CSOs), and local palm oil companies, including PepsiCo suppliers. Planned activities include: 1. Participatory Land Use planning; 2. Review smallholder # mill partnerships; 3. Alignment of various landscape stakeholders with the value chain stakeholders; 4. Setting up transparent trade of Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB); 5. Training farmers (both women and men) on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP); 6. Women's Economic Empowerment; 7.Preparations for replanting; 8. Sharing lessons from demonstration projects. 9. Identification of and supportto diversified land use and livelihood options in support of food and income security; 10. Resource mobilization from private sector and institutional donors.

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KUWUKA is a civil society organization based in Maputo, created in 2002 and legally established in 2008, and with actions in the national sphere in the areas of Governance and Participation, Civic and Environmental Education, Studies and Research, Advocacy. Kuwuka aims to contribute to integrated and sustainable development, advocating the promotion of social, economic and environmental justice, participatory governance in land management, natural resources, awareness and empowerment of society to actively participate in the search. KUWUKA's vision is to awaken the exercise of citizenship for participatory and transparent governance of natural resources for sustainable development, with social, economic and environmental justice. Through the financing of the AGIR program Kuwuka intends to broaden the knowledge about the ITEI (Initiative for Transparency in the Extractive Industry) and Participation in the Public Debate on the Governance of Extractive Resources. The tangible results/changes that the intervention plans to achieve are: (a) knowledge of the ITEI by more citizens participating informally in the public debate, (b) knowledgeable radio editorial teams, producing and disseminatingradio programs on the ITEI, contributing to increase knowledge ongood governance of extractive resources; (c) increasing the active and effective participation of citizens in the public debate on transparency in the extractive industry; and (d)young people, university students informed about ITEI, participating in thedebate on extractive industry, (e) Citizens benefiting from the ITEI review report. The action will be implemented through a participatory and collaborative approach with the parties (government, civil society and business), in the provinces of Gaza,Inhambane and Manica, specifically in the provincial capitals. The choice of these cities is due to the fact that these cities have so far not benefited from similar major initiatives in the context ofthe extractive sector, despite having potential in minerals and hydrocarbons in exploration and still to be explored. Example Gaza:Heavy Sands and Diamonds; Inhambane: Natural Gas and Heavy Sands and Manica Gold and other ores.