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We envision a world in which land governance systems, both formal and informal, are effective, accessible, and responsive for all. This is possible when land tenure and property rights are recognized as critical development issues and when the United States Government and its development partners demonstrate consistent attention and a firm commitment to supporting coordinated policies and programs that clarify and strengthen the land tenure and property rights of all members of society, enabling broad-based economic growth, gender equality, reduced incidence of conflicts, enhanced food security, improved resilience to climate change, and effective natural resource management.
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The USAID Land Tenure and Resource Management (LTRM) Office will lead the United States Government to realize international efforts—in accordance with the U.S. Government’s Land Governance Policy—to clarify and strengthen the land tenure and property rights of all members of society—individuals, groups and legal entities, including those individuals and groups that are often marginalized, and the LTRM Office will help ensure that land governance systems are effective, accessible, and responsive. We will achieve this by testing innovative models for securing land tenure and property rights and disseminating best practice as it relates to securing land rights and improving resource governance within the USG and our development partners.
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Displaying 331 - 335 of 440IMPECT 2016-2020
General
Project of Empowerment and Strategic Protection of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Thailand (ESPRIT) under Inter-Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in Thailand Association (IMPECT) target over 4 million indigenous people in Thailand. As Thailand government policy has not yet reached UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, there are common rights violations against indigenous people The project aim for Indigenous peoples (IPs) in Thailand are able (i) to set-up, strengthen and institutionalize the Indigenous Peoples’ Council, as a self-regulated and principal mechanism, primarily taking actions on dispute resettlement process. This Council would then (ii) be accelerated and capacitated on self-determination and management and by the end, there would be certain amounts of laws and by-laws enhancing the existence of identities with rights entitlement and safeguards for indigenous peoples The objectives; empowering IPs network leaders of Council of Indigenous People in Thailand (CIPT), strengthening capacity of IMPECT and IPs networks, promote and deliver cultural and lifestyle through Indigenous Knowledge Management Institute, enhance skill on effective management & administration to support IPs movement in Thailand Expected results are IPs network and leader are empowered and CIPT in Thailand are reinforced, IMPECT and IPs network are able to managed human rights violation, capacity of promoting and delivering cultural and lifestyle of IP to public through IKMI has increased, administration team skills has improved and served program operation Main activities include data development, Ingenious people movement and advocacy for Ingenious People Council and network establishment The thematic area focuses on indigenous people rights, land rights, culture preservation and women rights Other stakeholder including IMPECT staff, IPs leaders from 14 networks, Partner organization and allied networks, State and Government Agencies, Potential Donors
Objectives
This project mainly contributes to results within Fulfilment of human rights commitments. Results will be reported later in the Global Civsam grant period 2016-2020
Fight against agricultural land degradation
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The main objective pursued is to combat the decline of soil fertility through the promotion of the restoration of the lost forest landscape through the involvement of women, because it is undoubtedly proven that rural women are the first users of forests. and land and if they are trained in agroforestry they can contribute effectively to the restoration of lost forest landscapes in order to fight against land degradation.
Iracambi I-GIS for the Atlantic Rainforest
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The Iracambi GIS, based at the Iracambi Research Center in one of the worlds top biodiversity hotspots, Brazil's Atlantic Forest, seeks to present data and generate maps that are easily accessible and understandable to local communities, students and farm families. Our aim is to clearly demonstrate the changes that are taking place due to human impact on the ecosystem, with their effects on climate and resource management, as part of our educational program and as a tool for land management.
Economic Empowerment of Girls and Single Mothers
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Traditional and legal norms for property rights and land tenure in this area give little room for women to contribute in economic development. Above 70% of single mothers have no vocational skills for financial empowerment and live below 60 dollars a month. This has led to financial difficulties for most homes. This project is an effort to work with single women in poverty alleviation actions. The women will be train on the production of different household detergents for economic empowerment.
Protect a village of 155 households from erosion
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155 households live in Gatebe 2 village in Rwanda, situated at the bottom of a hill . Due to heavy rain and unsustainable practices the community is hit by erosion and land degradation, threatening their subsistence farming livelihoods. Rwanda Development Organisation (RDO) plans to combat this situation by restoring the landscape by planting trees and improving drainage, and by sensitising the community about sustainable practices, including the distribution of 50 goats for organic manure.