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Promoters of the rights of indigenous peoples
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Project further educates the 40 young indigenous peoples representatives that the organization have capacitated earlier about the cultural and legal rights of the indigenous peoples in order them to better defend those rights and take possible injustices t o the legal instance. The education concentrates especially on questions of land law rights and right of access to health care. Educating the indigenous peoples own representatives to defend their rights serves the aim of spreading the knowledge and multip lication of effects among the communities. Furthermore empowerment enables better monitoring detection and following-up of violations of the rights. Also representatives of three different indigenous peoples organizations are capacitated on these issues. A s well a situation report about the state of the indigenous peoples rights and legal problems encountered by the communities will be published to increase awareness in the whole society and to enhance the implementation of the legal rights.
Help rural farmers in Africa gain access to land
General
Seventy-five percent of the world's poorest people live in rural areas where land is a critical asset, but more than half these families lack either access to land or a secure stake in the land they farm. Landesa partners with governments to provide policy and implementation support to strengthen the land rights of millions of men and women in rural African communities. Your donation will support our activities across Africa, including targeted projects in Liberia, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
GLA - Inclusive and sustainable governance of forested landscapes (FLG)
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Weak forest and land governance are important underlying drivers of deforestation and forest degradation of forests. Many local communities depend heavily on forests for their daily livelihoods. They are often disproportionally impacted by deforestation, while their contribution to ecological destruction and their access to possible benefits are often relatively limited. Trends in global markets and policies provide both risks and opportunities for positive change towards inclusive and sustainable governance of forested landscapes. The Forest and Land Governance (FLG) thematic programme aims to help civil society in the GLA landscapes to build their capacity to deal with and manage the risks of international initiatives around the sustainable management of forested landscapes while fully engaging in their development and sharing in the benefits these intend to produce. The work on this programme will be additional to the work at the country programme level. It aims to bring about change in some of the international policies (both public and private) that are most relevant to forest governance, the accessibility of decision making processes and the capacity and competencies of CSO partners to influence them. It also aims to link southern CSOs amongst each other, and to link Southern with Northern NGOs that work on advocacy and policy solutions, so they can learn from each other, share experiences and collaborate.
Objectives
If progress is to be made towards sustainable agriculture, food security and sustainable forest management, many actors should move in parallel, at many levels. The GLA programme aims to contribute to this by zooming in on the landscape level, particularly but not exclusively on the roles of local communities, and the local civil society organisations that aim to support forest communities. The Forest and Land Governance programme contributes to this effort by addressing the risks and opportunities that exist at international level for the landscape level programmes. The GLA focuses this FLG programme on the best opportunities for influencing the international context in which the landscape programmes are working, aiming at: A. International policies that support locally controlled and sustainable management of forested landscapes (MD, IUCN-NL, TBI) B. Diminished illegal logging (TBI, IUCN-NL) C. Certification of forestry, agro-forestry, commodities and landscapes to be effectively scaled up (TBI, IUCN-NL) D. Public and private financing that support inclusive and sustainable management of forested landscapes (IUCN-NL, TBI)
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International policies support locally controlled and sustainable management of forested landscapes: TBI and partners will concentrate on creating international enabling conditions for locally controlled forest and landscape management, i.e. reduce the barriers for communities and small businesses to participate in markets for timber and other forest products. We publish a guidance dicument on business engagement that respects formal and informal tenure arrangements and organise a meeting on that topic. Illegal logging diminished: TBI and CSOs will influence illegal logging policies and their implementation nationally through the designated structures for VPA negotiations and implementation, and internationally by influencing the position of EU and member states as negotiators on the European side. In 2017, Tropenbos will work mainly with west African partners to strengthen the role of CSOs in three VPAs (Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana) by monitoring the degree and effectiveness of civil society involvement in EU FLEGT Joint implementation committees in West Africa. This requires strengthening or creating platforms and fora and information sharing and networking in these networks; and by capacitating CSOs in organizational strengthening, participation in multi-stakeholder platforms, awareness creation and knowledge building on FLEGT-VPA and REDD+. We will link these actors with existing European forums on forest governance. At the European level, the strategy is to create the conditions for CSOS in the South to engage with forest governance decision making. Concretely, Tropenbos and its partners will monitor European level developments with the FLEGT action plan and respond to opportunities to influence it. We will start collaboration with European CSOs and monitor developments re EU deforestation action plan and FLEGT follow-up; involve southern partners in the development and presentation of evidence to influence the discussion. Certification of forestry, agro-forestry, commodities and landscapes effectively scaled up: The global PEFC forest management standard is in revision, which presents a window of opportunity for the inclusion of civil society views in a standard for the management of >400m ha of forests. In 2017, partner work in the countries (specifically Bolivia) will be supported by participation in the PEFC revision working group. The focus will be on the embodiment in the standard of tenure (VGGT), FPIC principles, and access to certification by locally controlled forest enterprises. Strengthening CSO capacities for international networking, case study development and …: We will develop these capacities through coaching, the provision of information about international processes and their potential role in it (mainly VPA-FLEGT, PEFC standard setting) and by contribute to international events related to forest and land governance with delegations of CSOs based on joint themes (e.g., FAO, EU FLEGT and Global Landscapes Forum events).
F.a: Achieving 5th schedule and Forest Land Rights for Tribes in Tamil Nadu
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The project aims to obtain title deed for about 9,750 forest dependent tribal families in Tamil Nadu, India under Forest Rights Act (Forest Rights Act 2006), as well as to start the new title deed search processes. As well strengthening of landless Primiti ve tribes in the plains with the financial assistance of Tribal Sub plan and Scheduled Caste Development Fund. In Tamil Nadu recognition of indigenous land rights and enforcement of the laws has been very slow process. However, in early 2016 the Supreme Co urt decision withdrawn the lower court's decision, which was halted the implementation of the Forest Rights Act in 2008 and this is very positive for the promotion of indigenous peoples' rights. The project will speed up the process for granting land title deeds, and is thus intended to protect the rights of thousands of families in the countries from which their livelihood depends. Strengthening land rights also has a positive impact on the environment as illegal land use is decreasing and the diversity of farming will be promoted. Beneficiaries on this project are tribal communities living in 17 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu. We also involve NGOs, movements, association which are supportive to the tribal rights and their development. http://vrdp.org
05 Asset creation
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Support the design and implementation of assets that are nutritionally relevant to improve and diversify the livelihoods of vulnerable communities and households affected by climate change and land degradation
Burundi: Research on the Effect of Land Tenure Registration on Land Disputes and Women's Land Rights
General
1. To generate useful knowledge on the impact of community-based land tenure registration on land disputes and ways to enhance that impact; and 2. To generate useful knowledge on how to preserve and strengthen women’s customary rights to land in land tenure registration.
Objectives
The project aimed to generate useful knowledge on the impact of community-based land tenure registration on land disputes and ways to enhance that impact; and generate useful knowledge on how to preserve and strengthen women’s customary rights to land in land tenure registration.
Target Groups
Citizens of Burundi
RECLAIM Sustainability! Ghana-Cocoa
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This project aims to contribute to a sustainable and inclusive cocoa value chain, in which producers receive fair value for their produce and work under safe conditions, without the use of child labour, and land rights and forest are protected.