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Displaying 6 - 9 of 9Building Community Resilience; harnessing traditional Ecological knowledge to combat climate change
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Inspired by OCH and aligned to Africa framework call to enhance local voice and agency, this project will contribute to two outcomes of the Kenya Resilience programme; Outcome 3; Degraded landscapes restored and protected through sustainable land management and providing a stream of ecosystems services Outcome 5: Policy and decision makers are actively implementing plans, budget and initiatives that support environment and food security, water related issues, and livelihoods of women and youth. Phased in annual plans for three years, Jesuit Hakimani through this project is seeking to enhance Voice and Agency of local community in policy dialogue that will lead to understanding impacts of climate change to marginalised and indigenous communities. Traditional ecological knowledge, has potential to play a central role in both indigenous and non-indigenous climate change initiatives also called climate change local adaptation mechanisms. The detection of environmental changes, the development of strategies to adapt to these changes, and the implementation of sustainable land-management principles are all important climate action items that can be informed by traditional ecological knowledge. Intention is to include traditional ecological knowledge as a voice of the local community into climate research, ecological education, resource planning and decision-making processes that should eventually be incorporated, as a local voice & local content into the climate change policy, climate action plans and assessments, and more important for resilience improve adaptation efforts at County, National, and Regional, levels. The two objectives are; 1. Local voices and local content developed to inform training and evidence based advocacy activities 2. Inclusion of indigenous knowledge and information in local, national and regional policy dialogue and advocacy engagements
Land Rights in Liberia: equitable access to land for the poor and marginalised
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The action is a response to the call to strengthen service delivery by civil society organisations (CSOs) to improve legal certainty and enforcement of land rights for women and youth in Liberia. Land tenure in Liberia is key in the fight against poverty and food insecurity as over 40% of the population relies on subsistence farming for their livelihood . The lack of access and insecurity of land tenure is a major problem in Liberia. Recent government policy is making endeavours to remedy the issue through legislative reforms, for example, the Land Rights Policy of 2013 has introduced the concept of customary rights in Liberia while the Inheritance Laws support the rights of women to husbands’ property including land. The Land Rights Act is another important legal framework that distinctly established the legal framework and land categories and title in Liberia; when passed into law and fully implemented, it will provide opportunities for rural communities to own their land through registered titles. However, these legal frameworks have not fundamentally changed the situation especially for women and youth. Although women and men have the right to land ownership under the statutory and customary tenure, access and control to land title differ in origin, scope and duration. Ownership is often influenced by social norms and traditional practices related to marriage and other family relationships. To enhance the work of government on Liberia’s land tenure framework for equal access to all its citizens and to keep the agenda of women’s access to land, this action has developed objectives that will help to address the rights of vulnerable people in the four target counties
TUN Acces to land and credit in Tunisia
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IMPACT: 23-0002515 Access to land and credit project implemented by IDLO in rural Tunisia aims to limit and control the fragmentation of agricultural plots and modernize agricultural operations by creating plots with regular shapes, accessible, viable and economically profitable. It aims to enable young people and women to access justice and claim their land rights and land ownership by registering them. Consequently, land ownership facilitates young people's and women access to agricultural credit and subsidies that empower them economically.
Improving Livelihoods, Agriculture and National Development in Ethiopia
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The project aims to increase agricultural productivity for smallholder farmers (women and men) in 18 districts in the regions of Amhara, Tigray and Oromia in Ethiopia. These districts have reliable rainfall and high potential for agricultural growth but are increasingly affected by land degradation and food insecurity. The project is designed to address these issues by supporting the national Sustainable Land Management Program that works with communities and local officials to develop and implement resilience-building plans. These plans focus on reducing land degradation and improving agriculture productivity through increased use of sustainable land management approaches such as rehabilitating degraded watersheds, introducing high value crop varieties, and building terraces and water harvesting systems. Canada’s contribution aims to benefit an estimated 252,000 women and men in these 18 districts. The sustainable land management practices being introduced include tree planting, gully rehabilitation, terracing, cut-and-carry livestock feeding, and building small-scale irrigation systems.