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Step change in governance and inclusiveness in the most marginalised San conservancies in Namibia
General
To implement and assess a management/leadership model based on one-on-one coaching on and off-site and specialist expert presentations and guidance on topical issues eg. representation and communication, human and land rights, gender balance, youth involvement, climate change, conservancy law, labour law etc.To empower and engage the local San communities through self-determined methods of inclusiveness in conservancy decision making and assess results
Address Urgent Coastal Adaptation
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This project will promote and demonstrate cost-effective, low-regret options for adaptation including climate-resilient practices such as Ecosystem based adaptation and climate-resilient land management and establishment of a pilot Early Warning System.
Fair Finance Asia Phase 2
General
Fair Finance Asia (FFA) is a regional network of Asian CSOs committed to ensure that financial institutions' funding decisions respect the social and environmental well-being of local communities. It is managed by Oxfam Novib and based on the Fair Finance Guide International (FFGI) Methodology seeking to influence financial institutions to adhere to ESG (Environmental, Sustainability and Governance) criteria in their investments. The overarching goal is that banks operating at national and regional level contribute to positive outcomes for people in Asia through their financing and investments while reducing negative impacts on the climate, environment, human rights and gender equality. The first phase of the program, 2018 - 2022, included eight countries, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan and Japan. The reason for including Japan is that many Japanese banks invest in countries in Asia. Based on the positive results from phase 1, as well as the fact that FFA is in line with the priorities of the new regional strategy 2022 - 2026, Sida has decided to support a second phase. It covers five years and includes expansion to five new countries (Malaysia, Bangladesh, Lao PDR, Singapore and South Korea) and the regional influencing will focus two main themes; Just Energy Transition and Gender Lens Financing. The program has four result areas; 1) Financial institutions (FI) operating across the region increasingly adopt or improve sustainable finance policies, practices, and public disclosure. 2) Regulators and governments increase independent monitoring of FI policy, practice and accountability and transparency, and improve the regulation of FIs, including through mandatory regulation. 3) Regional financial sector actors take increasing actions to require and enforce improved standards for FIs’ policies, practices, accountability and transparency. 4) Strong and resilient civil society across the region effectively influences the sustainable finance agenda across the region, integrating a gender lens and community voice. Other actors have increased awareness and take increased action to influence the sustainable finance agenda. More information is available on the website: www.fairfinanceasia.org.
Objectives
The expected impact of the intervention is that: Financial institutions operating across Asia increasingly accelerate positive outcomes for communities and the environment through their financing and investments, while reducing negative impacts on the climate, environment, human rights, inclusion, gender equality, food security, and land rights. The intervention has five result areas and the following objectives... 1) Financial institutions operating across the region increasingly adopt or improve sustainable finance policies, practices and public disclosure. 2) Regulators and governments increase independent monitoring of financial institution policy, practice, accountability and transparency, and improve the regulation of financial institutions, including through mandatory regulation. 3) Regional financial sector actors take increasing actions to require and enforce improved standards for FIs policies, practices, accountability and transparency. 4) Stronger and resilient civil society across the region effectively influences the sustainable finance agenda, integrating a gender lens and community voice. 5) Other stakeholders (intermediary stakeholders) have increased awareness and taken more action to influence the sustainable finance agenda.
F.a: Defence of the Territory and Peace Building in Colombia
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As a result of 50 years of armed conflict, Colombia is one of the most unequal societies in the world with over 5 million internally displaced persons. The Lutheran World Federation’s Colombia program aims at responding to the challenges caused by the ar med conflict, natural disasters and internal displacement in the departments of Choco and Arauca where majority of the population are indigenous people and Afro Colombians. The program strengthens the communities in the program areas by protecting human ri ghts defenders and promoting land rights. Food security and food sovereignty is strengthened by promoting organic cultivation, sustainable crops and improved cultivation technics. New livelihoods are identified and developed. Advocacy is done directly and through networks and partner organisations in local, national and international level, in order to raise awareness of the human rights situation in Colombia. Local partner networks are strengthened through trainings, seminars and workshops. Disaster prepar edness and risk management are improved by trainings to communities and leaders of organizations. The program is implemented by the Lutheran World Federation-Department for World Service as the Colombia Country Program.
Working Landscape Colombia
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In recent years, Colombia has been confronted with very high rates of deforestation. Deforestation occurs in different parts of the country, but especially in the departments of Guaviare, Putumayo and Caquetá, where the Andean foothills and the Amazonian plains are connected. It is expected that further deforestation in this area will affect water supplies. Initially, deforestation took place in order to establish illicit coca crops. Later, widespread fumigation forced farmers to turn away from coca production, converting their fields and forests into pastures for cattle ranching. This process has transformed the vegetation cover, creating a mosaic of forests and areas with ever larger pastures. The guerrilla that dominated this area had imposed environmental rules that controlled deforestation and promoted the protection of water sources. But since the signing of the peace agreement the guerrilla became demobilized, while the state has very little control over the area. As a result, deforestation has been increasing. The National Development Plan estimates a loss of forest cover of 200,000 hectares per year for the next 4 years, contributing significantly to Colombia’s GHG emissions. The municipality of Solano, in the southern department of Caquetá, is located right on the edge of the deforestation border in the Colombian Amazon. The Solano landscape functions as an ecological corridor of two large National Parks, Chiribiquete and La Paya, which occupy more than 5 million hectares. The area represents the larger trend of expanding cattle production at the expense of forests. Solano is an interesting case, because it combines different types of land tenure: the indigenous resguardos with collective property titles on the one hand, and possessions of peasants and state forest lands on the other. Deforestation in the resguardos is much lower than in the other areas. We envision an intercultural climate-smart landscape with high forest cover that contributes to the connectivity and helps to maintain the ecological and climatic processes between the Amazon and the Andes. This landscape is shaped by intercultural participative inclusive governance that integrates different visions (including those of indigenous groups, peasants, women and youth) and production systems. The landscape consists of a mosaic of sustainable production systems, restoration initiatives, indigenous and peasant forest-use systems, diverse home gardens (chagras), and protected water sources and natural forests. There are financial mechanisms appropriate to the region that encourage the restoration and integration of the forest in different production systems. The landscape contributes to Colombia’s NDC and SDGs, by reducing deforestation and promoting an integrated model of mitigation and adaptation that values forests and trees.
Objectives
1. Ensure that the local government integrates different visions and production systems in spatial planning, with special attention to the role of forests and trees. This requires the establishment of a multi-stakeholder platform composed of the municipality of Solano, peasant representatives, indigenous authorities and CSOs. This Solano model needs to be made visible to influence governance in the six Colombian Amazon departments, and to contribute to debates about land allocation, land rights and access to resources. 2. Develop effective models that promote restoration, biodiversity conservation and sustainable land use in the main ecosystems present in the landscape. The models need to promote good practices for soil, water and forest conservation and restoration that include monitoring and evaluation of the results. Their successful implementation will require access to legal markets for timber and other forest products. 3. Existing financial mechanisms do not include options for indigenous communities with collective land titles and are very limited for peasants, as they do not have formal land titles. The few possibilities they have, are for the improvement of their agricultural and livestock activities without considering the forest. To change this, it is necessary to generate and implement tailor-made financial mechanisms that promote the conservation and restoration of forests. 4. Taking into account women´s specific role in assuring food security both in indigenous resguardos and in peasant households, special attention will be given to agrobiodiversity and climate-smart income-generating opportunities related to forests and forest products for women, based on their specific knowledge, skills and possibilities. We will also work to address the barriers that women face to participate in decision-making, especially in public. In the Colombian Working Landscapes programme we will also pay special attention to youth. In order to achieve a real transformational long-term change, we believe it is important to involve younger generations, and to assure they will have the knowledge and skills necessary to develop and maintain a climate smart landscape.