General

Main Outcome 1: In priority areas, AC contracts are registered and related GHG emissions reduction is estimated by appropriate national and subnational authorities.: This first outcome will address the current lack of institutional and technical capacity to implement the AC provisions by providing provide strategic advice, information and technical protocols that ensure that government agencies involved in its implementation have a clear direction and attainable goals and manage ACs governance tools such as a zoning tool, a registry system and an aligned cadaster. Main Outcome 2: Family Farmers in AC areas implement sustainable land management options (AC SLM and SSF) tailored to local socio-ecological contexts and comply with AC requirements including zero deforestation with the support of relevant GoP stakeholders. In targeted areas farmers will be encouraged to enroll in AC and adopt AC relevant practices to support the transition towards zero deforestation and agroforestry-based livelihoods through the implementation of co-designed and context-specific land use practices. They will receive support from subnational authorities and NGOs trained by the project. Main Outcome 3: Financial institutions support new sustainable practices of agroforestry farmers under AC. This third main outcome addresses the need for incentives that promote more sustainable production practices by small-scale farmers in the Amazon. The positive incentive approach is a pillar of the project; it focuses on helping the government and the private sector develop tailored incentives packages that will ensure farmers’ engagement with the ACs system, their timely enrollment, and sustained compliance with their new environmental obligations. Integrated and inclusive financial and non-financial incentive schemes to support sustainable practices will be co-designed with government agencies, financial institutions and farmers, thus capturing their needs.

Objectives

In 2011, the Government of Peru (GoP) instituted the Agroforestry Concessions (AC) scheme as part of the new Forest and Wildlife Law. It is a major and innovative legal and policy measure aimed at formalizing the tenure of smallholders currently occupying public forest land and at incorporating them into the forest sector under the assumption that the legal conditions associated with ACs will reduce deforestation and secure restoration of degraded state forest land. The regulations for the AC scheme were promulgated in 2015, and legal procedures and guidelines issued in 2017. The AC scheme can significantly reduce deforestation while improving livelihoods of vulnerable, small-scale Amazonian farmers. We describe its potential positive impacts in Section 11.2.2. In short, previous work by GGGI and ICRAF demonstrates that successful roll-out of the AC scheme could reduce GHG emissions of Peru’s Land use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector by about 20.3%, while improving the livelihoods of >100,000 vulnerable smallholder families. The objective of the proposed project — ACtion — is to realize the Agroforestry Concessions scheme by working with the Government of Peru (GoP) to build the legal, institutional, technical and financial enabling contexts for successful implementation at scale.

General

1) To improve land conflict management in Eastern Africa by supporting the adoption of a regional agenda on management of conflict over land and natural resources, as well as by strengthening land governance and related policies in three (3) pilot countries. 2) To champion the importance of rule of law in strengthening land governance by combining research, learning and organizational capacity development activities.

Objectives

The project aims to establish IDLO, at both the policy and programming level, as a recognized and credible player in the field of land governance, with important and unique capacities in terms of land conflict management and mitigation that are directly relevant to climate justice, particularly for women and girls, and food security.

Target Groups

Direct beneficiaries: Chiefs of Justice, Environmental Courts, Ministries of Land or Natural Resources, Directors of Ministry of Land or Natural Resources. Indirect beneficiaries: Populations in Kenya, Somalia and Uganda, particularly women and girls. Experts from governments, the African Union, the United Nations system and other international organizations, think tanks, academia, civil society organizations, and the private sector.

General

GLA Context analysis: A series of comprehensive studies in recent years emphasized the dominant role of commercial agriculture, notably soy and palm oil, in tropical deforestation. Indonesia and Malaysia dominate the international market for palm oil but might be experiencing problems to grow the operations further because of high production costs and lower availability of land. This explains increased investments in low-cost frontiers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin-America, including Nigeria, Colombia, Peru, Liberia and Cameroon, amongst others. Soy production is still on the increase in Latin America, and now takes up a large part of total cropland in Latin America: Bolivia 36%, Brazil 42%, Paraguay 55%, and Argentina 54%. Global demand for palm oil is growing, with for example a sharp rise in the EU for palm oil based biodiesel. Soy production in Latin America has grown 300% from 1999-2013. Due to the many negative impacts on water, food security, climate change, livelihood, human rights, land rights and biodiversity, associated with commercial agriculture and the resulting deforestation, the GLA program will work to mitigate impacts, improve operations towards sustainable levels and halt the expansion of palm oil and soy plantations through national and international lobby.

Objectives

GLA Theory of Change 2016-2020: The agro-commodities program focuses on international lobbying goals that complement national GLA agrocommodity lobbying strategies. It will support national lobby strategies by bringing local cases and interests to the attention of the international press and politics. In addition, the program will facilitate South-South and South-North learning, capacity building and knowledge sharing. At the national level, the alliance works towards improved (implementation of) national policies and laws that conform to international standards and agreements. Where applicable, the alliance will work on the better uptake and implementation of safeguards in palm oil and soy value chains, responsible production and consumption, and on halting the expansion of palm oil production that leads to deforestation. The GLA supports the protection of rights of people whose rights have been violated. The program will focus on international public sector policies within the EU and the UN. In the EU for instance on the Finance Regulation, binding measures in the EU Deforestation Action plan, the 2030 EU Climate & Energy package and the Renewable Energy Directive (to stop the use of palm oil and other agricultural crops for biofuels from 2021 onwards). The alliance aims to achieve regulation of the financial sector to eliminate land grabbing and deforestation for agro-commodity expansion. It will also stimulate the uptake of best practice standards in palm oil and soy and policy support to that purpose. In the 5-year agro-commodities program, the alliance will support CSOs in palm oil and soy producing countries in increasing their knowledge and skills related to international policy processes, lobbying, case work and policy analysis. In addition, CSO partners will actively cooperate with and empower local communities to monitor local developments and advocate for their rights.

Other

See attached documents for a brief summary of the Annual plans of the implementing organisation