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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.
Large Scale Land Based Inv. Amuria
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Eastern and Southern African Farmers Forum-Uganda (ESAFF-Uganda) is part of a regional small scale farmers# coalition established in 2002 during the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg to bring together small scale farmers, pastoralists and traditional fisher folks at different levels into a social movements with a common aspirations and ensure learning <(>&<)> linkages. ESAFF- Uganda is a partner implementing Right to Food in Uganda with the role of working with small scale farmers, consortium members of R2F project and other like-minded organizations to push for the recognition of small scale farmers# voices by organizing farmers and support their participation in high level lobby meetings, campaigns, dialogues and policy meetings. ESAFF Uganda and Oxfam In Uganda piloted the Oxfam Meaningful Community Engagement tools in Large Scale Land Based Investments in Agriculture (MECoT- LSLBI) in Amuru district in 2017, with funding from Oxfam Pan African Team. Experience of piloting the LSLBI tools in agriculture in Amuru district coupled with the trend of land dispossession from small scale farmers by private and public large-scale land investors necessitate empowering communities with practical-innovative tools and approaches that help to position them to engage meaningfully throughout the investment processes and stages for a win-win engagement. Above all, the land rights of the poor need to be protected first by the landowners themselves and other concerned stakeholders, and thisis the rationale of scaling up the LSLBI tools inAmuria.
OGB Pak SIDA GROW Bridge Fund 2018
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Oxfam's GROW campaign works for the billions of us who eat food # and for the more than one billion poor men and women who grow it.Through our global campaign, we address inequality in the global food system. Our overall objective is that people living in poverty claim power in the way the world manages land, water, and climate change, so that they can grow or buy enough food to eat # now and in the future. We support local communities to claim back their power, earn a living income, and to grow or buy food by ensuring investments in rural people. By ensuring investments in rural people, we support them in overcoming the dramatic impacts of climate change on agriculture, allowing them to thrive. GROW focuses on change at national levels and on opportunities to achieve international impact. More specifically, by 2019 we aim for more governments, multilateral institutions and companies implementing policies that promote sustainable food production and consumption, while supporting those most vulnerable toadapt to climate change, and helpingcommunities# realise their rights to land with a particular focus on women who produce much of the world#s food. To ensure that theSustainable Development Goals, including zero hunger, become a reality, we need innovative ideas that hold a promise of a better future for many # not just a privileged few. We believe there are key factors that drive hunger and inequality: unfair distribution within value chains, insecure land rights, climate change, gender inequality and ever more young people desperate for opportunities leaving rural areas. Oxfam's GROW campaign tackles the key sources in the broken global food system by working to mobilise impacted communities and active consumers alike. Since the launch of the GROWcampaign in 2011 more than 10 million people have been reached through on- and offline campaign activities and a multitude of people has been reached through media coverage. We are proud of the achievements of GROW. We gave small-scale female farmers avoice; through the Behind the Brands campaign significant new commitments have been made by big food and beverage companies to improve social and environmental standards in their vast supply chains; we are proud of our contribution to keep climate finance, especially for adaptation and resilience, on the agenda of the global climate negotiations at COP21 in Paris; and we recently celebrated a land mark victory as the Constitutional Court in Colombia recognized the Land Rights of the indigenous community Cañamomo Lomaprieta and granted protection for ancestral mining activities. An overview of ourresults can be found on the interactive map. Oxfam is at the beginning of a new phase of the GROW campaign (2017 # 2020). Throughout the years, we have been actively updating our context analysis, testing drivers of change, reflecting on models of campaigning, addressing new key actors, and, exploring new alliances. Nonetheless, now more than ever we feel the need to increase our impact and change systemic drivers of inequality in the food system. In this document, we present three innovative work streams running until atleast 2020. 1. A new worldwide campaign addressing inequality in food value chains (expected launch October 2017) 2. The LandRightsNow campaign 3. Effective adaptation finance to support women farmers. These three projects have received seed funding from inter alia SIDA and we are currently looking for opportunities to up-scale them between 2017-2020 to reach our ultimate objectives. Wewant to note that this document does not present the future direction of the entire GROW campaign but presents three selected trajectories (2017 # 2020) where innovation is key.
IPD-K#Mwanati Asilia
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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.
OPDP #OurLandOurRight Kenya
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Following an eight-year legal battle, the Court#s judgment finally provides a long awaited unique opportunity for enforcing the respect of the human rights of the Ogiek as well as other minority and indigenous peoples (MIPs) in Kenya, by securing their access to productive resources (land <(>&<)> water mainly), as well as by fostering space for their political participation. The first ever indigenous community rights decision of 26 May 2017, the Court formally recognised the importance of respecting indigenous communities# land rights in Africa by ruling that the Ogiek's right to their ancestral lands, and linked cultural and religious rights among others, had been violated by the Government of Kenya as a result of decades of evictions in the name of conservation. As such, the ruling provides a unique opportunity for the Ogiek to secure the recognition of their rights violated until now and in partnership withother indigenous communities in Kenya and Africa to pursue changes in the law, policy and practice governing the rights of indigenous peoples and natural resources, especially when linked to conservation building upon this historical precedent. In these favourable circumstances and within the first 12 months following the ruling, the project will ensure the rapid and effective implementation of such an exceptional decision by collectively engaging and mobilising all key identified stakeholders, to (i) facilitate and prepare the ground for the Court's forthcoming reparations order and (ii) to initiate the enforcement of the ruling, to monitor the firststeps of its implementation and pave the way for it to benefit other Minority and Indigenous communities (MIPs) in Kenya and acrossAfrica facing similar issues.
Counterpart 506989 Cambodian Human Right
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The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC) was established in 1994 by a group of local NGOs in order to promote human rights, democracy, rule of law and peace in Cambodia. CHRAC is currently a coalition of 22 local neutral, non-partisan, non-governmentalorganizations in Cambodia. With this project, CHRAC aims to empower men and women to be vibrant rights holders in claiming for their land and natural resource rights; and just and strong legal systems enacted and enforced. CHRAC is expected to 1/ make Cambodian community people, especially land affected community people to become vibrant right holders to seek for remedy, 2/to make the communities# concerns on land and natural resource issues heard by relevant state authority and other competent authorities, 3/ To ensure land dispute resolutions are found in a just manner, 4/To ensure land law, policy and regulation on land and natural resource are fully enforced and right to land and natural resource are fully protected and 5/To make critical fundamental laws on judicial system incountry revisited and reviewed and advocacy to have law on land reclassification in order for the protection of the land rights.
CO-Oxfam Novib Vietnam
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Phase 1 (2015 - 2017): In this initial phase, Oxfam in Vietnam will conduct research and advocacy on Vietnamese cross-border agricultural investments in Laos and Cambodia. We will prioritize leading crops like rubber, coffee, and sugar cane, with an aim to reducing social and environmental impacts of investment. The project will be coordinated and managed by the land governance program team in Vietnam, in cooperation with Oxfam country offices in Laos and Cambodia, Oxfam Hong Kong, and a range of local government, NGO andprivate sector partners. Phase 2 (2017 - 2018): Building on the achievements of Phase 1, this project (Phase II) will continue to work towards the same objectives by pushing for the adoption and implementation of the guidelines for Vietnamese agriculture OFDI developed in the pilot phase and expanding the project to Myanmar. Key expected outcomes in Phase II include: 1. Vietnamese companies investing in Laos and Cambodia make public commitments to implement the guideline on responsible agricultural investment in the Mekong Sub-region. 2. Vietnamese businesses with current or planned agricultural investments in Myanmar make public commitments to implement the guideline on responsible investment. Total direct beneficiaries of Phase 2 are 10,000 persons, while indirect beneficiaries are around 300,000 persons in this particular project.
Oxfam US
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ONs contribution of euro 30.000 to the second year of the existing Pan Africa land programme will replace the contribution of OIE (year 1) and will be spent on: 1) The design and commission of 4 country case studies on womens land rights in Africa and on 2) Theprovision -by a senior land advisor- of strategic support to Oxfams Women Land Rights Advisor for analysis and engagement on initiatives that involve womens land rights policy and indicators. Overall objective of ONs contribution is to join forces with OUA and OGB to use the present Africa land programm as a means to grow a broader Oxfam land programme at AU level, taking advantage of existing opportunities.
Citizen monitoring of land governance
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The project aims to improve small farmers# participation in land governance through piloting a community-based monitoring mechanismthat will be adopted into subsequent national policy documents. This mechanism will build on Oxfam and Landa#s experience in community consultation on the Land Law and engagement in direct community projects, with the aim to increase domestic support for implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National FoodSecurity (VGGTs). The overall goal of this project is to secure land rights of small-scale farmers and ethnic minority communities through evidence-based advocacy towards a more transparent and inclusive land governance legal framework, with meaningful participation of the citizens in to the processes in order to help reduction of land use related conflicts in Vietnam. This project contributes to Vietnamese Government priorities by operationalising Article 199 of the 2013 Land Law on apilot basis in three provinces, documenting and disseminating results, and linking to development of policies and guidelines to implement citizen monitoring provisions of the Land Law nationwide. To achieve this, Oxfam and Landa will engage with MONRE/GDLA and other government agencies immediately from the start of the project. Successful implementation of the action will contribute to the overall goal of MRLG of securing the rights to land access of small holding farmers. This project will be primarilyimplemented in regions inhabited by ethnic minority groups. The engagement of the small farmers at grassroots level throughout project implementation will be facilitated through various capacity building and awareness raising activities. Furthermore, they will not only be consulted on the suitability and appropriatenessof the guidelines on citizens monitoring of land governance, but also engage directly in certain stages of monitoring. This continuing process of engagement will form a solid foundation forproactive action of smallholder farmers in claiming their rights. The project#s ultimate beneficiaries are small-scale farmers (particularly ethnic minorities and women) who obtain and preserve access to land through different land re-allocation, pro-poor participatory land planning, and other progressive policies. The minimum target inthis Innovation Fund project will be that 300 farmers in each of three provinces, or 900 farmers in all, of which at least 50% are ethnic minorities and 50% women willactively engaged in monitoring different processes of land governance.
Climate-resilient Water Resources dvlp.
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Community based pilot action for climate-resilient water resources development for life and livelihoods in Rod Kohi/Pachadh belt ofDistrict Rajanpur In Pakistan, spate irrigation covers about 8% of the total irrigated area. It is locally known as Rod Kohi in KPKprovince and Punjab province and Sailaba in the Balochistan province. Across the country, it is often generally referred to as flood irrigation. This kind of irrigation relies on the floods of the hill torrents, which are diverted into a plain area, locally knownas Damaan. In the indigenous systems, farmers divert the spate flow to their fields by constructing breachable earth bunds (called Gandas) across the hill stream and/or stone/gravel spurs leading towards the centre of the river. Spate irrigation farming system ofRod-Kohi areas is a unique system of farming being practiced in Piedmont plains of D.I. Khan (KPK), D.G. Khan and Rajanpur (Punjab), Dadu (Sindh) and in Sulaiman ranges, Kachhi plain, Kharan and Lasbela basins of Balochistan. Balochista has about 1.2 million ha of Sailaba irrigated land. In Punjab province, flash flood water is mainly harvested from Sulaiman mountain range. In KPK, minor spate flows occur in spring and the major floods occur in summer as a result of monsoon rainfall on the Sulaiman range and Lakki-Marwat hills during July and August. In these areas the major constraint is the use of flood flow which is highly variable in quantity and distribution, both in time and space. Annual rainfall is low and uncertain but brings large amount of water with each rainfall event. The agriculture of most of the areas of these regions is totally dependent on rainfall, although affected by flood with rainfall but most of the times remain without water. It is unfortunate that in spite of scarcity of water, major part of flood flows is lost due to mismanagement. The major problem is the unavailability of any kind of storage and modernized engineering structures, though lot of efforts and money were spent in order to control thetorrents flow floods and in humanitarian/relief operations but storage is never considered important. If the proper storage facility and modernized structures are provided in these areas then not only the flood is controlled but also the drought conditions can be mitigated and the crops which have very less yield due to the unavailability of water can be enhanced. The project, will build a knowledge base related to water sector especially water resource management through building facilities for utilizing perennial water from Darrah Kaha Sultan and attract the attention of the stakeholders to extremely water-stressed Rod Kohi belt of district Rajanpur which may be a turning point for these communities and Water Resources Management catalyzed by this initiative will revitalize the downtrodden communities again. 'Darrah Kaha Sultan', the major Rod Kohi outlet in the district located in Jampur tehsil, and its main perennial stream 'Alif Wah' with sub-streams is the main focus of the project. Project Objectives: OVERALL OBJECTIVE: # To enable the stakeholders for efficient water resources development for increased agricultural and livelihoods productivity in water-stressed Rod Kohi/Pachadh belt of District Rajanpur through developing knowledge base and evaluating pilot interventions SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: # To assist water-stressed communities of Rod Kohi belt of Rajanpur in pursuing their struggle for water rights and sustainable livelihoods through increasing land productivity # To evaluate the performanceof Rod Kohi/spate irrigation/water diversion system in District Rajanpur and identify innovative techniques for improving its performance and land productivity # To contribute in water resources development efforts of Government of Pakistan throughdeveloping irrigation water resources in Rod Kohi areas of District Rajanpur