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Displaying 326 - 330 of 362Bottom-Up Accountability Initiatives and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa
General
The objective of this project is to test whether the Food and Agriculture Organization's Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security can help increase accountability for large-scale land acquisitions in Mali, Nigeria, Uganda, and South Africa. It will provide insight into the conditions under which international land governance instruments can be used to hold public authorities more accountable. This, in turn, may help locals secure the right to food in sub-Saharan Africa. From rural to urban In 2007, the absolute number of people living in urban centres worldwide overtook the number of people living in rural areas for the first time ever. As a result, the international development community's attention is increasingly turning urban. Yet data from the United Nations indicates that three-quarters of sub-Saharan Africa's poor still live and work in the countryside. Effective access to, and ownership over, land and natural resources remains critically important for the rural poor in Africa to be able to build decent economic livelihoods and participate meaningfully in decisions that affect their lives. Movement to acquire land on a large scale Against this backdrop, food, fuel/energy, climate, and financial crises have converged. One of the most immediate and important implications is the revaluation of land as a scare resource. This reality has driven industries, governments, communities, and individuals to acquire land at a scale never witnessed before. Africa has played centre stage to this wave of large-scale land acquisitions. Since 2006, international and domestic investors have acquired an estimated 50-80 million hectares of land in low- and middle-income countries. Research to investigate land acquisitions FIAN, the Foodfirst Information and Action Network, will implement the project. National citizen-based groups, regional and international civil society organizations, researchers, and policymakers interested in land issues will participate in the project. The research team will apply a case study and participatory action-research approach. The project is expected to generate evidence about how local residents can enhance their ability to promote more equitable, transparent, and accountable land acquisition mechanisms. Evidence for improved monitoring Project results will contribute to the UN Committee on World Food Security's monitoring mechanism. The evidence will also be shared with other relevant monitoring bodies at the national (parliamentary commissions, national human rights organizations), regional, and international levels (African and UN human rights systems).
Priority 2: Provision of sustainable shelter solutions for persons affected by protracted crises and returnees
Objectives
In line with priority 2 of 2022 SA1 objectives and cluster objectives, this project intends to address the acute needs of the most vulnerable IDPs amp persons affected by protracted crises and returnees, giving a special focus on minority groups, people with disabilities, female-headed households, vulnerable children, disaster victims, GBV survivors, elderlies amp people with special needs amp, etc at Almtoon district – Aljawf Gov., Almodhafar District – Taiz Gov. amp Marib district- Marib Gov. YFCA in minor partnership with NDEO (Nabd Development and Evaluation Orgnization, an active, committed and capable local NGO at Almotoon district) is planning to target 3,682 individual IDP amp returnees of the most vulnerable affected individuals (721 men,752 women, 1082 boys, 1127 girls) through the provision of houses rehabilitation at Almtoon amp Almodhafar districts and provision of transitional shelter, shelter maintenanceamp upgrade specifically at Marib district. The provided assistance along with the targeted locations was identified considering the acute needs of the most vulnerable population to improve their access to adequate, sustainable shelter solutions resulting in enhancing their physical living space, thus improving habitability, safety, health, dignity, privacy, protection from adverse climate and protection risks, cultural suitability, availability of services, access to livelihoods, and relative tenure security. Through this project, returnees' inclusion will be promoted which will effectively encourage other IDPs to return besides assisting returnees to settle in their homes by providing the necessary shelter assistance amp enriching their skills with their direct engagement of them in the project implementation. YFCA intervention for each district will be as follows: - 180 Transitional shelters will be provided to the IDPs with prolonged displacement situations in Marib district. - 200 IDP houses to be provided with shelter maintenance amp upgrade in Marib district. - 50 returnees' houses will be rehabilitated in Almtoon district- Aljawf Gov. - 96 returnees' houses will be rehabilitated in Almodhafar district- Taiz Gov. - The livelihood component will be integrated closely within the provided interventions where BNFs will be trained amp supported with the necessary technical amp financial support. YFCA will be following the shelter cluster selection amp vulnerability criteria along with the implementation Guidelines, ensuring that age, gender, and diversity approach is used to establish the needs. The targeted districts are located within Marib, Taiz/Aden amp Sa’ada Hubs where YFCA has its main sub-offices, a well-trained team on shelter amp protection who strictly adhere to all necessary shelter amp protection requirements of the beneficiaries to carry out the main implementation task with backstopping support from the main office in Sana’a benefiting from its robust coordination with the Executive Units for Marib ampTaiz Gov and SCMCHA for Aljawf Gov. as well as the coordination with Shelter, Protection amp WASH clusters, RRM, IOM, and active partners in the targeted locations has already been done to support and facilitate the planned interventions and to avoid any duplication with other partners. YFCA is fully experienced with the local contexts and planned interventions where YFCA was the first NGO to provide sustainable interventions to Marib community specifically the shelter maintenance amp upgrade amp the transitional shelter.
Prevention and Mitigation of Protection Risk through integrated GP and HLP activities through Mobile Response
Objectives
In response to the protection needs of people who have been affected by conflict, flood, tribal and intercommunal violence, that has manifested itself in to recycle of revenge killing, looting, loss of properties and livelihood leaving the most vulnerable individual (s) IDPs, returnees and host community vulnerable to different protection risks, This project is an integrated protection monitoring and HLP designed to address the needs of the beneficiaries in the hard-to-reach areas of Duke, Bor South, Twic East, and Pigi/Canal in Jonglei State. The activities will be implemented through both static and mobile response by the protection mobile team in which. MHA will analyze the context, identifying key protection risks and related contributing factors, and will work together with the affected population to find a way of preventing their recurrence or minimize their effect. HLP activities will aim to address the HLP concerns of the IDPs and returnees, by engaging all stakeholders in the project locations to ensure that all mechanisms for HLP rights are activated and functional enough to respond to needs in a timely manner. Housing land and property activities would include support to the person with HLP related issues to access alternative dispute mechanisms, conduct HLP training for the community leaders and local authority and ensure genuine representation of the returnees, IDPs, and host community as part of MHA effort to sensitize the community on basic human rights, HLP rights, local and international legal frameworks including traditional customary laws that protect individual’s rights to own property. Provide options with HLP issues on legal remedies particularly claims of lost documents and land registration. Facilitate the referral of a person with HLP needs to NFIs/shelter partners and other humanitarian partners to access the needed assistance. Provide support and Capacity building on land registration and policy development. Provide legal support and counseling including psychosocial support, community sensitization, and legal awareness-raising on HLP rights and alternative dispute resolution as well as individuals protection assistance with direct cash support to cover HLP needs as may be required. As part of coordination at the field level, MHA will conduct stakeholders mapping to have a better understanding of the context and to apply the area-based approach and engage with non-protection partners to ensure the centrality of protection into their response, and to increase the level and quality of service being provided in the areas of return as part of collective effort to enhance the durable solution. Conduct Protection monitoring and assessment through the static presence in Pigi/Canal and mobile response to deep field locations/ priority counties to identify the protection need of the conflict-affected IDPs, returnees, and host community. These activities aim to identify the protection risks, human rights violations, movement patterns/ trends, risk contributing factors, conflict drivers, and barriers to meaningful access to humanitarian assistance especially for a person with specific protection needs including a person with a physical disability Strengthening of the existing community-based protection mechanism, rehabilitation of the community-based protection centers, training of CPBNs members, local authorities on homegrown risk prevention and mitigation measures, how community leaders can peacefully address potentials conflict among the community e.g revenge killing, cattle raiding, and conflict over the limited resources as part of MHA’s effort to promote social cohesion between the IDPs, returnees and host community to ensure the long-term protection outcome which the community will maintain after the end of the projects and the project target is 12,000 individuals 3700, men, 3,756 women, 1,904 boys, and 2640 girls. Out of this target, 3818 would be HLP project activities.,
Evaluation of Natural Capital to Support Land Use Planning, Improved management effectiveness of Terrestrial P
Objectives
To promote the use of National Capital Accounting (NCA) as a tool for Land Use Planning to achieve Protected Area (PA) management effectiveness, deployment of good Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices and operationalization of Ecovillages in Central Highlands of Madagascar.
Other
Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Target Groups
?The project is designed to provide direct socio-economic benefits to at least 120,000 local people (at least 50% women) in the target communities living in the project sites through the greater participation of local communities in natural resources management and improved PA co-management by local people. Specifically, the socio-economic benefits will be delivered through a complex set of activities listed in the table below: Potential ways to provide socio-economic benefits to target ecovillages and surrounding areas Investment Type Potential Activities Sustainable Agriculture · Renewal of biomass through recycling to optimize organic matter decomposition and nutrient cycling; · Maintenance of soil fertility by managing organic matter and improving soil biological activity; · Minimization of water losses by improving the conservation and regeneration of soils, and water resources, and agrobiodiversity; · Erosion control measures; · Genetic diversification of the agroecosystem in time and space at field and landscape level; · Improving beneficial biological interactions and synergies between components of agricultural biodiversity, thereby promoting ecological processes and services; · Control of crop enemies (diseases, pests and weeds); · Improving the agriculture-livestock integration; and Restoration of ecosystem services in soils and forests. Non-chemical fertilizer usage Climate-resilient agricultural crops and practices Water management · Protection of sources in the protected area of ??COFAV and watershed areas that is currently being destroyed by deforestation, shifting agriculture and bush fires. This will also require, in particular improving agricultural yield in farmers to prevent intrusion into the forest that is dictated by the need to find fertile land. At the same time as this measure, it was necessary to regulate entry into the protected area and watersheds, such as social fencing of areas being restored, implement measures to prevent run-off, install non-invasive multi-story vegetation to promote infiltration, sign boarding and reduce ingress of contaminants; · Reduce water losses through the use of more water-efficient irrigation systems, better management of irrigation and maintenance of irrigation facilities, earthen dams to retain excess water and introduce cover crops. · Improvement of the soil structure by organic amendments such as manure, compost, etc.; tillage according to contour lines on gently sloping land and those that favor infiltration such as minimum tillage or zero tillage; creation of ditches, cords, etc.) along the slopes; cover crops (crop residues, mulching or mulching, etc.); choose a good stocking density for the crop; · Control of weeds; and · Installation of windbreaks. Energy management · Facilitate access to domestic energy through the dissemination of improved stoves compatible not only with fuelwood but also with charcoal, energy efficient and adapted to the needs of rural communities. · Promote the use of agricultural waste · Promote agroforestry Watersheds, grazing lands and uncultivated lands · Mulching, earthworks, hedges and canals on uncultivated lands. · Agroforestry and planting of fruit trees. · Planting of trees for energy and construction · Controlled livestock grazing with suitable forage varieties · Fish farming and rice-fish farming in water bodies · Reforestation and the presence of vegetation on uncultivated lands · Infiltration channels protected downstream by grass strips · Planting of buffer strips on stream banks · Fallowing with the use of herbaceous grasses that also improve animal feed Ponds and ponds located in the watershed as a natural buffer by storing part of the runoff water. COFAV Protected Area · Strengthen protection against all forms of external pressure such as overexploitation, land clearing, wildfires · Contribute to the implementation of the management plan by strengthening the means and capacities of stakeholders. · Promote a more inclusive approach through the participation of all the villagers living near the COFAV · Support the engagement of village communities in the protection and conservation of the integrity of COFAV: patrol activities, ecological restoration, · Improve the value of biodiversity and restore the fragmented landscape · Strengthen the economic opportunities of the surrounding villagers so that they can have more competitive activities and thus reduce their dependence on natural resources: development of natural resources (tourism, non-wood forest products, rational logging) · Improve their livelihood activities by improving their production practice so that the latter can be in harmony with the conservation of biodiversity · Strengthen communication between all stakeholders · Improvement of knowledge on Mantella cowanii (sahona mena) and the characteristic fauna of villages and their habitats · Participatory ecological monitoring · Sustainable use of non-timber forest products Improved livelihood and value addition · Identification and establishment of suitable value chains to improve economic returns on crop production systems that currently threatened sustainable land management. · Creating sustainable supply chains (i.e. creating nurseries for medicinal plant or essential oil production); · Community endeavors in biodiversity-friendly income-generating activities. · Promote private sector engagement in value chain enterprise development, marketing and business planning
Sustainable Management of Conservation Areas and Improved Livelihoods to Combat Wildlife Trafficking in Madaga
Objectives
Conservation of biodiversity in Madagascar through strengthened management of the New Protected Areas (Category V), with active engagement by communities, and enforcement to reduce the rate of IWT and poaching
Other
Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Target Groups
The project is designed to provide direct socio-economic benefits to at least 6,260 local people (at least 50% women) in the target communities living in the Angavo, Sud-Ouest Ifotaky, and Behara-Tranomaro NPAs through the involvement of local communities in NPA co-management (assisting local communities in obtaining land tenure titles; development/renewal of co-management agreements, and providing conditions for employment of up to 260 Community Forest Monitors - Outputs 2.1-2.2) development and implementation of CBNRM and alternative livelihood projects (Outputs 3.1-3.2) with direct investments of $1,150,000 to local communities in the form of Low Value Grants. Projected increase of revenue of local communities resulting from implementation of CBNRM and alternative livelihood pilot projects (Output 3.2) can be estimated in 50-100%[1]. At the same time, the project is expected to decrease economic losses from poaching, illegal wildlife trade, and habitat destruction in the project area by 80-100% during its lifetime via increased law enforcement and effective NPA co-management (Outputs 2.1-2.2). That will provide additional benefits to local communities increasing their environmental sustainability and ability to adapt to the climate change. [1] Based on experience of SEED Madagascar, FAO and other successful sustainable livelihood programmes in Mdagascar and other African countries.