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After two tumultuous years characterized by the occupation of the north of the country by armed groups , a coup , suspension of development aid and the deployment of French troops, African and UN in the country , Mali is turning point in the crisis. However, to do this , the Malian government has to face the consequences of bad governance over the past two decades and its impact the quality of services , including justice . Access to justice to resolve land disputes , domestic or criminal cases is essential for the development and the rule of law. Otherwise , corruption and lack of faith of citizens in their government may perpetuate insecurity and poverty . Obtain updated information on the quality , efficacy and user perceptions on justice servicesremains a major problem in almost all legal systems worldwide . Official statistics include the number and type of cases heard , or possibly on the duration of the trial, rather than on the quality or level of satisfaction of stakeholders. And policy makers often have to refer on surveys and ad hoc studies to assess the quality of these services. This poses a problem for the establishment of a judicial policy based on evidence and meet the needs of citizens. Thanks to an innovative approach to using ICTOxfam aims to fill this gap and enable citizens,particularly women , to give their views on the formal and informal legal services in real time , and identify problems and possible in order to improve their quality solutions. This data can also be usedto hold the government responsible for the poor quality orlack of services simply . Oxfam will build on its experience of other countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo to help put in place processes and mechanisms for communities and authorities of justice (police, gendarmerie, the paralegals , lawyers, magistrates , local authorities ) to establish a regular dialogue and institutional # for improving the quality of legal services , prevention of violations of human rights and ensuring justice for victims. The information collected through anonymous SMS and other channels as a basis for dialogue. The Empowerment of citizens in the area of justice in Mali " hereinafter called the Project" is based on decades of experience of Oxfam in Mali and elsewhere in support of civil society faire de awareness on human rights and women,the provision of essential services for vulnerable women , and a good remedy for violations of rights. Oxfam now wants to use his experience to build the capacity of citizens, especially women, to monitor the provision of legal services and direct dialogue with the authorities in order to improve these services . The project will build the experience of Oxfam and our partners and DemeSo WILDAF over the past fiveyears in the training of paralegals, the sensibilization communities to improve their knowledge of the justicesystem , and the deployment of mobile legal clinics rural communities. The project will also incorporate the lessons of research conducted by HiiL and set embodied by DemeSo WILDAF and the perception of justice. Advocacy for taxes of Extractive Industries

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ZAM Chronicle (online) is a journalists project of especially investigative journalists. It is a monthly selection of the best African investigative journalism. The stories are fundamental and consistently discuss global issues. These are not just stories about Africa, they touch a deeper essence of what is really going on in Africa written by African investigative journalists themselves. This way, ZAM fills in an information gap in western media (reality as seen in Africa from the African perspective) in order to create a public opinion and to promote awareness about these global issues. Examples: Child soldiers, food aid industry, fair trade, land reform, trafficking of people, female genital mutilation, corruption, terrorism , multinationals and taxes, trading of arms. These are global issues Dutch citizens are concerned about. In each article, the African investigative journalist shines a new light and sometimes reveals a new truth. ZAM Chronicle has a growing, widely spread network of readers in academic circles (Erasmus Universiteit,Afrikaans Studiecentrum, Onderzoekscentrum Zuid Afrika), in the media (such as Volkskrant , Uganda Server , Italian , Swiss and UK newspapers , One World NL) and in civil society (Linkedin network Peace and Conflict East African School of Human Rights , South African watchdog open secrets). Objectives: •Develop an influential platform for debate on North-South, both worldwide and in the Netherlands. •Establish a platform for Dutch (European) and African citizens to get in touch with each other and show solidarity. • Develop a quality network of African investigative journalism Results: •At least 5 presentations at institutions in the Netherlands •100 inputs in media platforms (online and offline) in the West and in Africa •300 subscribers to ZAM CHRONICLE •30 visitors of life ZAM events every Monday •World wide Skype presentations, f.e. during conferences for investigative journalism in Africa • Interaction between Dutch media and African investigative journalists •Interaction between Dutch civil society, policy makers and African investigative journalists •Assessment of the impact of the written articles on the public (survey results) •Understanding how ZAM identifies qualitative research journalists in Africa The lessons learned will be used for further program development with African, global and Dutch partners.

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Oxfam develops and coordinates its land rights policy positions and advocacy work across affiliates and countries to facilitate coherence and maximize impact. The same applies to Oxfam's food and climate justice policy work. For the purpose of this project, the parties seek to co-operate with each other on the project titled Seeds GROW. The funding described in this agreement will be used to finance the position of OI Land Rights Policy Lead (presently Marc Wegerif) and the position of OI Climate Change Policy Lead (presently Annaka Peterson). The roles will lead Oxfam GROW campaign's advocacy on land rights and on climate change respectively, aiming to maximise Oxfam's influence on local-to-global public and private sector land rights and climate changepolicies and their implementation. They will lead the Oxfam land and climate change advocacy team and be accountable for overseeing the delivery of the GROW campaign operational plan on a yearly basis. Both are key roles engaging with crucial partners, coordinating the relevant teams acrossaffiliates and directly involved in campaigning, development of organizational strategies and plans, fundraising, advocacy, conflict resolution.

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Oxfam Novib# Lobby and Advocacy Team has decided to invest in programme development, one of the focus this year is on strengtheningOxfam# GROW campaign . An Action Plan was developed in March 2014 # initial work involves different countries in Asia region linking local campaign strategies to national, regional and global campaign strategies of GROW. This global GROW programme will build on on-going GROW national campaigns in Asian countries, the South Asia and Southeast Asia GROW regional campaigns and advocacy work at the international level. A Core Group has been set up to deliver the Action Plan in close coordination with Oxfam Novib Regional Manager for Asia and the head of the Lobby and Advocacy Team. The evolving programme areas are focused on 3 themes (with knowledge management as cross cutting): right to food/food justice, land governance, and climate adaptation. So far, concept notes have been developed already defining the (1) regional (East Asia and South Asia) GROW campaign strategies targeting national governments and regional institutions (ASEAN, Asian Development Bank); (2) global Right to Food influencing work (involving 3 Asian countries), and (3) land governance advocacy in the Mekong Region. The consultant is expected to use these regional programme ideas in helping country and regional Oxfam teams identify local/national to regional/global campaign strategies which is core to her/his task towards designing the global GROW programme framework. This global framework (programme summary/cpncept note) will be used in contacting and exploring partnership with external donors.

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Although some positive steps have been taken with respect to the rights of indigenous women, their rights remain widely violated. Indigenous women suffer from multiple layers of discrimination: because of their gender, their race or ethnicity and class as many indigenous women live in poverty. While considerable human rights standards regarding indigenous peoples’ land and other human rights have emerged in the past 20 years, the gender dimension of these rights is neither well developed nor well understood and this is the case at both the national and international levels. FPP’s work will be built on two sets of existing standards, one pertaining to indigenous peoples’ rights and one to women’s right. The current project (2014) builds on the experiences that FPP has gained in the last five years (2009-2014) in the field of G&LR as well as on the results of the external evaluation (financed by ON) carried outin October 2012. Project activities include: (1) legal and human rights trainings based on materials elaborated and refined in collaboration with partners; (2) national level advocacy; and (3) setting and implementing standards and jurisprudence at the regional and international levels through briefings, reports and, where appropriate, litigation. Expected outcome: The work of FPP on genderand land rights will contribute towards understanding the issues and needs of women within indigenous people and forest communitiesregarding land rights issues and how a gender justice perspective can be best approached. This project will help implement international standards and jurisprudence pertaining to the land, resource and other rights of indigenous women in Latin America, Africa andAsia, and to promote their implementation in domestic law and practice. ON’s grant will be used to further develop and implement (inter)national standards and jurisprudence pertaining to the land, resource and other rights of indigenous women in Latin America, Africa and Asia, and to promote their implementation in domestic law and practice.