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This collaboration enables the Ogiek people in Kenya's Mount Elgon to combine their immense knowledge and skills in managing their customary land with new community-based Geographic Information Science (GIS) technologies. The project employs a revolutionary tech-based solution called MAPEO, which enables them to collect and leverage data describing land and resource use in order to defend andadvance their land rights. The project aims to: # Build the Ogiek#s capacity to map and monitor their ancestral lands. # Reduce the Ogiek#s marginalisation through increasing their ability to advocate for themselves in local and national platforms with government and other officials. # Secure greater land tenure for the Ogiek through the existing legal mechanisms in Kenya, reduce territorialconflict with neighbouring communities, and increase internal fluency on territory issues for indigenous people. The project is implemented by a consortium lead by the Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples Development Project (CIPDP), as a representative organisation of the Ogiek people of Mount Elgon. CIPDP has been working on land rights issues for a number of years, and since 2010 with Forest Peoples Programme on issues including capacity development for policy influencing and strategic institutional support; GIS training; responsible finance; and networking with neighbouring communities. Digital Democracy is a long term partner of FPP, having collaborated with them in Latin America providing technical support and local partner training in mapping and land defense technologies in theAmazon.

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Indigenous people are group of people living in the territory of the Kingdom of Cambodia, whose have particular ethnic, social culture economic unity and practice their traditional lifestyles according to custom. Their agriculture and plantation on the plots of land they have occupied are done according to collectively customary usage of the land. In Cambodia, there are diverse of indigenous people such as the Bunong, Kuoy, Tumpong, Chary, Kroeng, Brao, Kavat. Totally of 24 groups. The indigenous people practices different culture tradition custom belief and languages according to their particular group. In Cambodia there are many organization and institutions that work on indigenous people in capacity building, various knowledge about the rights to freedom of expression, political rights, the rights access to social protection. Although many relevant organization and institutions paid attention on indigenouswomen but their problem have not been responded yet. Seeing this, minority women from different indigenous group have common idea to establish the indigenous women network to voice their issues and concems and, hold the government and private sector to account and protect. The benefit of their communities. On 02 September 2018 women’ group organized a consultation workshop on the establishment of the first women’s network in Cambodia, coordinated by the Cambodia Indigenous People Alliance (CIPA), Cambodia Indigenous People Organization (CIPO) Highlander Association (HA). Following its inception, the women’s group received supported from International Indigenous Women Forum (IIWF) through the Cambodia Indigenous People’ financial system to carry out its activity starting in April 2019. In 2020 the women’s group have prepared its action plan according to the old plan from last year, discussed with the members who do not yet have the budget to support and implement out the activity. For the women’s team, there are many issues and needs that must be push and addressed indigenous communities, such as land rights issues decimation issue, economic, education, mining issue andclimate change issue. The project was developed by seeing the impact of mining investment in Mondulkiri and its potential impacts on community’s livelihood, heath, and environment and to empower IP women to take control and protect their resources and, ensure social and, environmental safeguarding. In addition, the women would like to have frequent training or meeting with communities livingaround mining investment area to strengthen their capacity to recognize their rights to participate in the early stages of researches and environmental assessment. Community awareness on the impact prevention methods are important to seek intervention from the company and the ministry of the mines and energy to take strict action against the activities of its workers who violate the national law. The strengthening IP women network in the mining-affected area of communities, forests communities, and indigenous collective communities is crucial to voice their concems and hold the government and company accountable. Recently, the Cambodian government through the ministry of Mine and Energy has provided mining investment license to private companies to boost the Cambodian economy as a senior official of the Ministry of Mines and Energy has recently confirmed about the first discovery of an international-scale gold mine in Mondulkiri Province. Speaking at a press conference on the morning of April 21, 2020, Mr. Yos Monirath, Director General of the General Department of Mines of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, stated: A gold mine is located in Okhvav, Kev Seima district,Mondulkiri province. In July 2018, the government decided to grant a mining license to an Australian company called Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) for a 15-year exploration area of 11.5 square kilometers in O'Khvav, Keo Seima district, Mondulkiri province. According to Emerald Resources, Western Australia has some of policies to help the community such as: 1. Establishing and contribute to afund for community development for the benefit of the community in the project area. 2. Seek the support of major suppliers and contractor to also contribute to the fund 3. Fund governed by a committee of local senior stakeholder including company representative of communities and NGOs organization. 4. Applications from local community will be assessed in accordance with community needs. 5. School Nursery initiative as a way for students to raise funds for their school, to increase environmental awareness in young people and provide trees for future rehabilitation activities. 6. An Industry Partner supporting the Lion Water Sanitation Initiative in Obenlieu Commune, installing latrines and water filters in homes. Objectives (intermediate impact) Strengthened the rights and collective voice of indigenous women to influence and prevent from the potential impact of mining investment.

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Oxfam's vision is to establish multi-functional landscapes in which smallholders, their communities (including women and indigenouspeoples), local authorities, and plantation companies have applied participatory land use planning. Oxfam#s work on the FAIR Company Community Partnerships started in 2014. FAIR represents 4 key principles: Freedom of Choice, Accountability, Improvement and sharing of benefits, Respect for Rights and the environment. The long-term objective of FAIR Partnerships implementation is to demonstrate a holistic landscape level approach in Indonesia in support of community/smallholder-inclusive growth in the palm oil sector. In order to go from the concept of FAIR Company Community Partnerships to vision five consecutive steps havebeen defined: 1. Research; 2. Scoping; 3. Co-creation and preparation; 4. Demonstration projects; and 5. Up-scaling and mainstreaming. This project covers thefirst year of the 4th step: an inception phase which concludes the co-creation and further prepares local level project implementation. Purpose of the proposed 9-month inception phase is to establish/meet sufficiently detailed preconditions for the FAIR Partnership demonstration project participants. Project locations are: 2 out of 3 short-listed demonstration project locations: Pelalawan in Riau, Tanjung Jabung Barat in Jambi, and Sekadau in West Kalimantan. The Thematic Unit Land, Water and Pro Poor Value Chains in theHague, the Netherlands, is responsible for the overall contract management of this project. The unit provides is responsible for: the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Knowledge and Innovation Management; liaisoning with investors; relevant platforms and knowledge institutions; coaching and advice to the Country Office in Indonesia on all activities

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UWONET will seek to achieve the successful domestication of the Maputo Protocol, mainly focusing on Land by strengthening the capacity of civil society organisations to proactively hold government accountable for the implementation of the Land Policy. Strong collective women#s and civil society voices are well known to be a critical factor in pushing for implementation of policies. This project will therefore continue to invest in the strengthening of a strong coordinated, Ugandan women#s movement. A network of consortium members and other actors operating initiatives advancing the Women#s land rights guaranteed under the protocol shall work together to identify priority issues for redress and design appropriate strategies. Through the Women#s body atParliament Local women#s rights activists, Women#s rights organisations and local women political leaders will be linked to the parliamentarians to demand for rejuvenation and set up of Land management structures at Local levels. The capacity of women particularly those from the grassroots will be built to be able to participate and be heard in government planning and budgeting processing to influence budget allocationsto services that matter for the poor and rural women. The proposed project builds on the concluded 5-year Raising Her Voice Project (RHVP) which was conceived and designed to influence the Uganda Government to ratify and domesticate the Africa Union Protocol on Women#s Rights without harmful reservations; and to contribute to promotingthe role of women in the decision-makprocesses affecting their lives. The five-year Project was launched in 2008 and ended in March 2013. This project will be part of the 2nd phase of the RHV with started march 2014. Although the 2nd phase of the projectfocuses on fostering Local women#s activism and leadership to advance Women#s land rights and fight against VAW, the 3rd year of the 2nd phase of RHV will only focus on Women#s Land rights. This project aims to build on this momentum by specifically building capacity of rural women and women leaders to be at the forefront of advocating for the issues impinging on their rights especially the right to Land especially land inheritance and succession rights. Theproject will building women#s capacity to engage with the governance framework and cultural institutions at different levels so that functional land management structures are put in place and responsive to the needs of women. It#s envisaged that the engagement of women with cultural institutions andLegal framework will increase land accessibility for women as well and control. The voices ofwomen At local level, the project will be implemented in 3 sub regions of the Greater north , in the districts of Lamwo, Kitgum( Acholi region) Kabong and Kotido( Karamoja region) and Nebbi and Arua (Westnile region). Given the situation of women in northern Uganda with regard to high land ownership injustices and other injustices against women, domestication and implementation of the Maputo Protocol is important to address gaps in policy, laws and implementation of programmes to address women#s rights. The project willfocus on pushing for the implementation of the recently passed land policy.

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The project aims to improve small farmers# participation in land governance through piloting a community-based monitoring mechanismthat will be adopted into subsequent national policy documents. This mechanism will build on Oxfam and Landa#s experience in community consultation on the Land Law and engagement in direct community projects, with the aim to increase domestic support for implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National FoodSecurity (VGGTs). The overall goal of this project is to secure land rights of small-scale farmers and ethnic minority communities through evidence-based advocacy towards a more transparent and inclusive land governance legal framework, with meaningful participation of the citizens in to the processes in order to help reduction of land use related conflicts in Vietnam. This project contributes to Vietnamese Government priorities by operationalising Article 199 of the 2013 Land Law on apilot basis in three provinces, documenting and disseminating results, and linking to development of policies and guidelines to implement citizen monitoring provisions of the Land Law nationwide. To achieve this, Oxfam and Landa will engage with MONRE/GDLA and other government agencies immediately from the start of the project. Successful implementation of the action will contribute to the overall goal of MRLG of securing the rights to land access of small holding farmers. This project will be primarilyimplemented in regions inhabited by ethnic minority groups. The engagement of the small farmers at grassroots level throughout project implementation will be facilitated through various capacity building and awareness raising activities. Furthermore, they will not only be consulted on the suitability and appropriatenessof the guidelines on citizens monitoring of land governance, but also engage directly in certain stages of monitoring. This continuing process of engagement will form a solid foundation forproactive action of smallholder farmers in claiming their rights. The project#s ultimate beneficiaries are small-scale farmers (particularly ethnic minorities and women) who obtain and preserve access to land through different land re-allocation, pro-poor participatory land planning, and other progressive policies. The minimum target inthis Innovation Fund project will be that 300 farmers in each of three provinces, or 900 farmers in all, of which at least 50% are ethnic minorities and 50% women willactively engaged in monitoring different processes of land governance.