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Women smallholder Farmers in Zombo District face climate change challenges that have affected their food production and income capacities. These challenges range from prolonged dry spells affecting crop germination, too much and erratic rains which causeflooding and damage root tuber crops such as cassava, yam, and potatoes. Dry spells and waterlogging result in crop diseases which can affectother crops, especially since women producers lack the capacity to control such infestations. These, coupled withineffective agronomic practices and accelerating climate change impacts and damages, affect the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and their households. The project aims at enhancing the food and income security of 200 women smallholder farmers using the CRAEM model. Oxfam has piloted this model with smallholder women and men food producers, and the model has proven to enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change impacts and improve productivity. The model emphasizes working with andstrengthening community leadership structures and emphasizes practices and technologies within the means of beneficiaries which can be scaled without further external support Land degradation, poor soil health, and high dependence on rain-fed agriculture has increased the vulnerability of rural households to food insecurity and poverty, eroding productive assets and weakening their coping strategies and resilience. Onset, duration,and intensity of rains vary considerably from year to year, and the increased frequency of erratic weather patterns, including drought and flooding, have negatively impacted the national economy and the livelihoods of the people. New measures are needed to help farmers and consumers cope with the changes in emerging and projected weather patterns. Oxfam would like to support 200 women smallholder farmers to practice climate-smart agriculture to maximise their productivity and increase nutrition and income using the Climate Resilient Agro Ecological Model (CRAEM)

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The Power of Voices Partnership (PvP) is an influencing programme with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The programme FAIR for ALL led by Oxfam Novib is five year long initiative implemented jointly with consortium members Huairou Commission, SOMO and Third World Network-Africa (TWN-Africa) aimed at supporting and collaborating with people’s rightful demands towards companies, governments and multilateral organizations for economic, social and environmental justice, promoting global trade and value-chains that are fair for all. The main focus of the FAIR for ALL programme proposal is to support and strengthen CSOs to play their diverse roles; as educators, mobilizers, creators and watchdogs to make trade and value chains FAIR for ALL. In Africa, FAIR for ALL programmeaims at Strengthened civil society and regional networks of economic and climate justice movements, human and land rights organizations, and women’s, producer and labour organizations work in partnership with the private sector to push for fairer rules, systems and institutions to promote gender, fiscal and climate justice, redistribution of power and benefit sharing within commodity value chains for more inclusive and sustainable development in Africa. The Africa FAIR for ALL programme will be implemented by Oxfam in Africa and partners, aiming to: 1) Transforming dominant agricultural and extractive commodity value chains and increasing the local share of value generated within these chains through: Improved respect for human, land, labour and environmental rights, including more equitable prices and improved livelihoods for women, small producers and mining-affected communities, and better working conditions and economic returns for ASM producers; and by maximizing domestic resource mobilization, including fiscal returns for investmentin gender-responsive public services; and building natural resource-based regional economic linkages and diversification at local, national and regional levels. 2) Improving civic space for citizen groups and actors, especially those working to transform agriculture and extractives value chains. These objectives will be achieved by Strengthening capacity to engage with the regional private sector and regional and continental processes andvalue chains on agriculture, agribusiness, climate change, extractives and trade; Improving technical knowledge on trade, tax and climate change, the extractives and agribusiness sectors, and the intersection of theseissues with gender; Expanding and consolidating alliances, networks and coalitions; Creating space for local partners including women groups to engage with regional and continental institutions, processes, fora and platforms as well as regional private sector networks and associations. To achieve main objectives of the programme in Africa, Oxfam will collaborate with: African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET); Réseau des organizations paysannes et de producteurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ROPPA); Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA): a member of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (TJNA); and Fight Inequality Alliance (FIA).

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The Power of Voices Partnership (PvP) is an influencing programme with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The programme FAIR for ALL led by Oxfam Novib is five year long initiative implemented jointly with consortium members Huairou Commission, SOMO and Third World Network-Africa (TWN-Africa) aimed at supporting and collaborating with people’s rightful demands towards companies, governments and multilateral organizations for economic, social and environmental justice, promoting global trade and value-chains that are fair for all. The main focus of the FAIR for ALL programme proposal is to support and strengthen CSOs to play their diverse roles; as educators, mobilizers, creators and watchdogs to make trade and value chains FAIR for ALL. In Kenya, the FAIR for ALL programme aims to ensure that communities, especially grassroots women, have the space to meaningfully engage the private sector and government in securing benefits from the extractive sectors and preventing rights abuses. Women small-scale farmers benefit from increased power and capacity to access markets and get better prices for their produce. This will be implemented by Oxfam in Kenya and partners, SOMO, TWN-Africa and partners and Huairou Commission members. The Kenya FAIRfor ALL programme will be implemented by Oxfam inKenya, Third World Network-Africa and partners, Oxfam will focus on the following 1) Strengthening civil society to engage the private sector and to hold the government to account on human rights and the environment. Specific focus will be on land tenure security, by enforcing FPIC and supporting communities in seeking redress; on ensuring international financial institutions invest in projects that have been agreed on by communities; and on supporting communities to get remedy if their rights are violated. 2) Strengthening civil society to engage with public and private actors for transforming the agricultural and extractive sectors to be more locally owned and managed and contribute to more value-addingactivities in the country. We will look to formalize and advance the rights of artisanal miners, ensuring a better share of value in markets and safer, more efficient production. 3) Strengthening civil societyto engage with the government on revenue allocation. This work also includes advocating trade and tax reforms, and demanding transparency around contracts and revenues from extractives (EITI). These objectives will be achieved by strengthening local civil society in Kenya through, • Sensitizing communities, especially grassroots women, about their rights and strengthening their capacity to claim these rights. It is essential to put efforts into training and capacitating community members and their representatives, as opposed to only bigger civilsociety actors advocating to governments and companies on their behalf. • Coordinated efforts to bring together non-state actors, the state, investors and communities to forge practical strategies that can increase opportunities for small-scale workers and producers and curtail ongoing abuse, in particular with regard to land and labour conditions. • Addressing reasonswhy CSOs struggle to engage with governments and the private sector: there is a lack of sound mechanisms for engagement, technical knowledgeand funds, and fear of harassment. • More proactive local level monitoring, documentation of abuse and effective grievance mechanisms to curtail impunity. • Developing a joint civic space protection strategy among civil society actors, and a joint advocacy strategy on human rights defenders’ and violations of rights. To achieve main objectives of the programme, Oxfam will collaboratewith the following groups in Kenya • Kenya Land Alliance: supports a social movement of land-marginalized groups, e.g. by increasing the voice of communities in community development agreements, in which government and investors negotiate benefits for local communities. • Transparency International – Kenya: a not-for-profit organization with the aim of developing a transparent and corruption-free society through good governance and social justice initiatives. • Taita Taveta Human Rights Watch: a grassroots lobby group working on issues of human rights violations within the country.