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CCI seeks to contribute to increased access to land ownership and utilization by rights holders. The Women Power’s in Action project aims at directly amplify the voices of the women whose rights to property, Land ownership and utilization denied and they face abuse, discrimination and exploitation. It will empower women leaders in the parishes of Arwotomito, Acutkumu and Walela in Ayami sub county and Otara and Barpii in Aromo Sub-county. The WOPA-project will use the approach of the Parish welfare women groups to identify women leaders, widows, girls who are back home from marital homes and other marginalized women in the community. CCI will play facilitative and mentorship roles in equipping, supporting, linking and guiding the women leaders throughout the project life, also create sustainability approaches even after the project ends. The project will focus on empowerment through awareness raising and campaign through information sharing, mentorship sessions; use IEC materials, drama, poems, capacity building and case management. Womenleaders will be positioned to mobilize, sensitize and counsel Rights holders who are faced with challenges related to abuse, exploitation and property ownership, she will hold the lower local government accountable for poor response towards Gender based violence,inadequate budget allocation and gaps in policies that address issues related to vulnerable women. Specific Objectives: To increaseknowledge of community members and rights holders on legal literacy and constitutional remedies available on Land rights and Customary Land tenure system through legal awareness campaign, education and sensitisation at local and different levels; To enhance the capacity of stakeholders and different leaders at local and district level to support rights holders’ rights to land and ownership; To lobby, advocate and support amplification of women’s voice on land, mapping and documentation of customary land owners, and respond to rising land disputes and conflict through alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Expected change. Increased number of rights holders freely accessing, utilizing and owning land and other resources, and are free from abuse and exploitation. Solutions. Conducting community awareness creation to address the issue of women’s right violation. The community will be sensitised to respect the right of women and girls by protecting their rights and supporting them and to have their names registered in the family shared customary land registration certificate. Training of selected women leaders to use ADR in addressing land wrangles and violence against theright holder groups through engagement of the conflicting parties in ADR. Conducting capacity building for women and girls to empower them in order to claim for their right to land access and utilisation. The project will empower and build the capacity of the rights holders to have knowledge, demand and access to certificates of customary land ownership (CCO). This will also encourage the right holders to actively participate in decision making in their community meetings. Working with empowered key women leaders to support advocacy on women’s rights to land and access to resources, provided identification, follow-ups and referral services on the landrights cases by means of improving information and access to customary land ownership for the right holders. Advocating and encouraging registration of customary land where every member of the family including women and girls are included in the land registrationand documentation. Some key people among the rights holders will be selected and their capacity built in order to reach out to other rights holders facing abuse and discrimination. Supporting and promoting land demarcation and marking land boundaries using the local available tree called “Omara Omara”, this will act as a means of protection and reduction of land wrangles arising from boundaries and ownership. This will help the vulnerable women (widows and disabled women), girls (orphans and childheaded children) from being deprived of their right to own and use the land left for them. CCI will work hand in hand with both the district and sub county stakeholders and political leadership to support the creation and development of bylaws on women’s right to land and resources and toensure its effective implementation. This will also encourage the increase in the number of functional association of women’s leadership with knowledge on land right and resources.

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Full Project Title: Passing the torch: Land Rights Now for Indigenous Youth Implementer: Indigenous People’s Movement for Self Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL), as Host, and Asia Young Indigenous Peoples Network (AYIPN) Indigenous peoples for the longest time have experienced oppression as development in the guise of extractive industries has destroyed our ancestral territories. Across Asia, indigenous youth face challenges from discrimination and lack of culturally appropriate education in our own languages to environmental pollution and land grabbing of our territories in the name of development. Indigenous youth are called on to defend their rights as youth - by making their issues known to those in leadership roles - and as indigenous peoples, calling attention to self-governance, the importance of our values and traditions in the modern world, socioeconomic development and the protection and defenseof ancestral land. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected indigenous peoples as clinics and hospitals are inaccessible. In education, as online learning is introduced, it has become difficult for families to afford gadgets and internet to provide to their children. Difficulty for strong signal is also lacking thus indigenous youth are not experiencing quality education. Transportation is limited and indigenous communities are located in remote areas. Yet the pandemic has also made many realize the importance of protecting nature which has been a part of indigenous culture. With this in mind,we, indigenous youth with our partners, are committed to the continuous protection,development and the defense of our land and rights for sustainable development - and our future. We are ready to take the torch of the Land Rights Now campaign. The main objective of “Passing the torch: Land Rights Now for Indigenous Youth” is to strengthen and shape the Land Rights Now campaign with more significant involvement of indigenous youth. Specific objectives and activities we will carry out to achieve them are: 1) to amplify the voice of indigenous youth for their campaigns and advocacy: Capacity Building and Empowerment of Indigenous Youth: - Formal and informal education/training and exchanges to build leadershipand organizational management skills to strengthen local organisations - A focus on young women to be leaders and transforming indigenous communities to decolonise and end patriarchy -Nonviolent Direct Action training so indigenous youth are equipped to mobilise communities Advocacy Campaigns: - Support and carry out national advocacy campaigns led by indigenous youth -Document, and revitalize traditional food systems and stewardshiprole of indigenous peoples as a means to reclaim health, culture and languages 2) to builda movement of indigenousyouth across Asia and the globe to participate in and coordinate the Land Rights Now Campaign: Network Building - Build the power of indigenous youth by strengthening our network across Asia and deepen connections to other regions (linkingto indigenous youth organisations signed up to the Land Rights Now campaign andothers, encouraging them to join) 3) to build the capacity of indigenous youth to carry on and take over coordination of the Land Rights Now Campaign: - Join the coordination of the LandRightsNow campaign and shape public campaign actions at regional and global for the duration of the project and beyond.

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The indigenous people of the Coast of Kenya i.e Mijikenda, Wagunya, Pokomo, Boni, Wardei and Watta have lived as squatters on theirrightful land according to the report of the “Truth, justice and reconciliation commission”, as a result of the illegal acquisition of large tracts of land from indigenous communities during the colonial period. This project aims to collaborate with relevant National and County Government land duty bearers to promote legal land ownership and utilization in the community in accordance with land policy and written law by September 2021. IPD-K will raise awareness in Malindi and Magarini sub counties on the right to own andutilize land at the ward and sub county levels by June 2022 and support willing indigenous individuals and communities to access land offices to initiate the acquisition of land legal documents by December 2022.