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Displaying 671 - 680 of 6947Policy intersections: Strengthening bottom up accountability amidst land rush in Mali and Nigeria
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Over the past few years, large-scale acquisitions (purchases, leases, or other arrangements) of farmland in developing countries by individuals, corporations, and foreign governments have presented both economic opportunities and threats to traditional livelihoods. This trend has reduced access to key resources, like water and grazing land, upon which small-scale farmers in developing countries depend. Complicating the picture is the patchwork of customary laws, legal frameworks, institutions, and various authorities regulating land ownership and use. The livelihoods of people are complex, multi-layered, and interconnected, so focusing accountability action on only one field or issue, which is the traditional approach of marginalized rural groups, limits any accountability strategy. This shortcoming is especially pertinent when the intricacies of customary, gender, and generational dynamics are also taken into consideration. Under the leadership of FIAN-International (Foodfirst Information and Action Network), with the participation of researchers and civil society groups from Mali and Nigeria, this project seeks to establish new accountability strategies that will can address these overlapping legal and institutional contexts. It will also examine the difficulties surrounding women and youth in achieving land and associated resource tenure rights in rural communities that are governed by social and cultural norms that prevent women from exercising their rights. The researchers will use a participatory action research methodology with a feminist approach. Expected results include development of inclusive accountability strategies and tools that account for women and youth’s perspectives. At the regional level, the project intends to influence the land guidelines that are currently being negotiated to advance customary land rights. It also aims to strengthen strategic alliances through the West African Convergence of Land and Water Struggles to secure community land rights, particularly women’s land rights, in West Africa. This project is part of a group of IDRC-supported projects in sub-Saharan Africa entitled “Using Action Research to Improve Land Rights and Governance for Communities, Women and Vulnerable Groups”.
Robust sustainable tourism and agriculture sectors in Niue supported by biodiversity mainstreaming and sustain
Objectives
To enhance biodiversity conservation and sustainable land management in Niue through the development of sustainable and biodiversity-friendly tourism and agriculture sectors
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Target Groups
Residents of Liku and Hakup Villages, which are located within the primary forest and buffer zone areas of Huvalu Conservation Area, will be the most direct beneficiaries of project activities. While quantitative estimates of income benefits are difficult under the circumstances, particularly given the substantial exogenous risks to the tourism sector in particular associated with COVID, it nevertheless seems clear that in both the short and the long term, residents of these villages will benefit substantially from the better practices being demonstrated and disseminated. Given the small, compact population of Niue, there is also little doubt that these practices will diffuse throughout the island in short order. Emphasis on removing financial barriers and creating incentives will help toensure that these benefits prove sustainable.
Maintaining and Enhancing Water Yield through Land and Forest Rehabilitation (MEWLAFOR)
Objectives
To demonstrate an innovative approach to how a proactive multi-stakeholder private sector-catalyzed partnership for water stewardship can be upscaled to achieve transformational changes in the restoration of degraded terrestrial ecosystems.
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Target Groups
(200)The project is expected to result in a wide range of socioeconomic benefits as well as global environmental benefits. MOEF has determined that in total, 278,600 people (153,230 make and 125,370 female) are expected to benefit from the project. By promoting nature-based infrastructure solutions, the land will retain its productive capacities and the water retained can be used for a wide range of socioeconomic-relevant activities, from drinking water supply for resident communities by the local PDAMs (Perusahan d’Aerah Air Minum; Regional Drinking Water Supply Companies), to irrigation, to use for industrial purposes. (201)The SAVi assessment includes an integrated cost-benefit analysis (CBA) that estimates the direct and indirect benefits and direct costs of improved management of 26,033 ha and installing the absorption wells under this project (see Annex M). The study area considered to assess impacts is the three sub-catchment areas, covering 179,142 ha. This area intersects seven regencies and two municipalities. The model combines the results of the SAVI’s spatially explicit analysis with data from the Indonesia National Statistics Office, the East Java Statistics Office and MOEF. Additional data gaps were filled using numbers from international literature. Net benefits for the project are calculated assuming a 20-year lifetime and also consider how the net benefits would change if the lifetime were extended to 30 years. The results of the integrated CBA is presented in Table 21. The CBA considers project performance under two climate change scenarios: (1) Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5, which assumes emissions peak in 2040, and RCP 8.5, which assumes continued high reliance on fossil fuel-based energy. Table 21: Integrated Cost Benefit Analysis Numbers in italics depend on climate scenario. Net benefits are equal to avoided costs plus added benefits minus investment costs. Net benefits are positive and increase with greater climate variability. All values are in 2020 million USD. 20-year lifetime (2021-2040) 30-year lifetime (2021-2050) RCP 4.5 RCP 8.5 RCP 4.5 RCP 8.5 Added Benefits Value of bamboo exports 0.21 0.21 0.35 0.35 Value of agroforestry benefits 2.12 2.12 3.35 3.35 Tree planting wages 0.52 0.52 0.52 0.52 Carbon storage benefit 31.99 31.99 31.99 31.99 TOTAL ADDED BenEFITS 34.84 34.84 36.21 36.21 Avoided Costs Avoided flood damages to households 24.00 24.53 486.79 77.96 Avoided flood damages to agriculture 12.06 14.00 193.73 36.90 Avoided erosion damages to agriculture 17.85 42.64 41.65 52.56 Avoided nitrogen pollution 17.10 17.10 25.65 25.65 Avoided phosphorus pollution 8.08 8.08 12.12 12.12 TOTAL AVOIDED COSTS 79.09 106.34 759.93 205.18 Investment & Maintenance Costs Improved land management investment cost 8.94 8.94 8.94 8.94 Absorption wells and biopori investment cost 0.56 0.56 0.56 0.56 Annual maintenance costs 0.10 0.10 0.14 0.14 TOTAL COSTS 9.60 9.60 9.64 9.64 NET BenEFITS 104.34 131.59 786.50 231.75 BenEFIT TO COST RATIO 11.87 14.71 82.56 25.03 (202)The assessment also calculates the net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR) of the project, for which the avoided costs and added benefits are accounted as revenue streams of the project. Upon extending the integrated cost-benefit analysis to account for inflation as well as the time value of money, the SAVi finds the following societal net present values (S-NPV) and sustainable internal rate of returns (S-IRR) under the different climate scenarios and lifetime scenarios (Table 22). Table 22: The NPV and IRR of the Project Lifetime of project 20-year lifetime (2021-2040) 30-year lifetime (2021-2050) Climate Scenario RCP 4.5 RCP 8.5 RCP 4.5 RCP 8.5 S-NPV 63,539 71,551 208,593 92,259 S-IRR 62.8% 74.8% 62.9% 74.8% S-NPV (excluding carbon benefit) 41,850 49,861 186,903 70,569 S-IRR (excluding carbon benefit) 56.5% 69.5% 56.6% 69.5% NPV (excluding carbon benefit and avoided costs) -8,330 -8,330 -8,136 -8,136 IRR (excluding carbon benefit and avoided costs) -11.0% -11.0% -4.8% -4.8% (203)Based on the results in the two tables above, the SAVi concludes that the MEWLAFOR project, in the Indonesian context, has positive benefits that far exceed the costs when externalities are considered: · The project is economically viable for investors and generates net benefits for society when considering both material economic impacts (with an IRR of 22.5%), as well as material impacts and externalities (with an IRR above 62%). · The value of the project increases when climate variability is greater because there are more avoided costs. Reforestation and avoided deforestation mitigate flooding and erosion damages. Hence, when the potential for these damages is larger, the avoided costs (i.e., benefits) of the project increase. This highlights that nature contributes to climate resilience and increased adaptive capacity. · The project has positive net benefits for the three sub-catchment areas. For the 20-year lifetime, net benefits are expected to be between US$104.34 million and US$131.59 million (undiscounted and uninflated). · Although not included in the CBA, the SAVi also estimated the downstream impacts of widespread forest restoration and the absorption wells. It found that improved land management on a large scale could increase groundwater recharge by up to 6.1% per year. Absorption wells will further increase groundwater availability and could mitigate one third of downstream flood damage. (204)Although the societal value is large, the project underscores the need for broad coordination among stakeholders to replicate and scale similar projects. The MEWLAFOR project is a demonstration of the benefits that can be reaped when this coordination is achieved across sectors and geographies and stakeholders are able to restore degraded land and improve water management.
Building Citizenship
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Associao de Desenvolvimento Comunitrio de Bataypor (ADEPOR) ADEPOR will work with farmers who were resettled as a result of Brazil's program of land reform, to plant agro-ecological community gardens in idle or degraded areas and organize a cooperative, resulting in a more reliable food supply for approximately 500 rural families, for schools and for markets in the municipality of Bataypor, Mato Grosso do Sul. The grantee plans to connect the new cooperative to wholesalers in the region, school lunch programs and government agencies that distribute food to the poor.
Train 5000 Farmers on Climate Change Agriculture
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Edom Development Group Plans to train rural peasant farmers on climate change Agriculture using agro- forestry and conservation agriculture, providing free training and improved planting materials to 5000 rural farmers practicing traditional agriculture characterized by serious problem of land degradation, soil erosion, low-crops yield and falling soil fertility.
Land Administration System phase 2
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This project is a direct follow-up on the findings of the inception mission conducted by Kadaster in 2022 and will assist the beneficiary and key stakeholders in the development towards an integrated system for the land registry and cadastre – including both registered and unregistered land rights – and specifically focuses on three components (institutional aspects, registered and unregistered land rights, land information system). This will benefit not only tenure security for local communities and (black) emerging farmers, but will also improve conditions for sustainable governance, economic investments and spatial development.
LAND-at-scale: Knowledge Management for Equitable and Sustainable Land Governance: Supporting the LAND-at-scal
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Knowledge management and learning are at the heart of the LAND-at-scale programme. RVO, LANDac and the International Land Coalition (ILC) will collaborate to implement the knowledge management (KM) component of the programme.Through LAND-at-scale's country-projects, the aim is to achieve just, inclusive and sustainable land governance at scale and in a sustainable way. With an integrated KM-strategy, LAND-at-scale aims to achieve maximum impact of each project, as well as contribute to gaining a deeper understanding of the conditions required to create structural change.
SORF 2013-2015
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On invitation by the local government, SORF will start to work in 5 new villages in two communes in Krakor District, Pursat province, a remote area of Social Land Concession. The direct target group is 150 poor households covering 600 people (360 women, 240 men).By December 2015, the following Outcomes will be achieved. 1. Te 150 selected poor households in the five target villages have increased their income from on- and off-farm Income Generating Activities (IGAs) by 20%. Destitute people have increased access to social protection mechanisms within the village (a Village Social Protection Committee will identify suitable sustainable IGAs). 2. The 150 poor households will have improved food security through more equitable access to agricultural opportunities (vegetable growing, livestock raising, etc.) and small business opportunities through the improved management of community resources (human, financial, natural resources). 3. The 150 poor families have demonstrated improved management of their households. 4. The 150 poor households have increased their voice and engaged in the development process through strengthened civil community structures and more responsive local government institutions. 5. The sub-national governments and civil society organisations concerned have increased their capacity and interactions on disaster risk reduction. 6. Existing models of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) are strengthened and consolidated for dissemination and replication in other disaster prone areas in Cambodia. 7. The 5 communities have increased awareness and have strengthened their resilience with respect to disasters and access to water by working in schools.
Master's Degree Program in Urban and Regional Development(2022)
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To enhance participants knowledge and experience in the field of urban and regional development including master planning land use planning real estate and housing development urban redevelopment and new town development
Objectives
To enhance participants knowledge and experience in the field of urban and regional development including master planning land use planning real estate and housing development urban redevelopment and new town development
Women?s Rights to Land in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Campaign on Gender and Land Tenure
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The overall objective of the project is to advance women’s economic empowerment to ensure the capacity of women to participate in, contribute to and benefit from agricultural value chains and processes in ways that affirm the value of their contributions, respect their dignity, promote equality and equity in eight districts of Eastern, Western, Southern and Central Provinces of Zambia. Specifically, the project seeks to: i) increase women’s agency and decision-making power at household and community levels to address barriers to women’s economic empowerment. ii) Strengthen technical capacity of women to run and own viable, productive, resilient and sustainable agricultural businesses and iii) Strengthen women’s voice and collective power at community level to increase access to, control of and ownership over productive (e.g. physical assets, land) and financial assets among women through women-led cooperatives, land tenure and financial inclusion. This will be achieved through a women-led and women centred approach with focus on both men and women. In general, the project will work through study circles, and support women groups, village savings and loans associations with capacity building of women in economic empowerment. The project will start with an eight months inception phase during which several studies will be carried out . These include market analysis, environment and social impact assessment, conflict sensitivity analysis, and a gender and power analysis. The findings from the studies will form the basis for the final design of the project implementation. We Effect, the main agreement partner will implement the project in collaboration with Heifer Project International Zambia (HPIZ), Women for Change (WfC), Zambia Land Alliance (ZLA) and eight District Women Associations (DWAs). The budget for the proposed intervention is SEK 75 Million. The project will run for 44 months including the inception period of 8 months.
Objectives
The overall objective of the intervention is to advance women’s economic empowerment to ensure the capacity of women to participate in, contribute to and benefit from agricultural value chains and processes in ways that affirm the value of their contributions, respect their dignity and promote equality.The project has three specific objectives (SO): SO 1 (personal sphere): To increase women’s agency and decision-making power at household and community level to address barriers to women’s economic empowerment. This specific objective seeks to strengthen women’s capacity, build confidence and self-esteem. SO 2 (relational sphere): To address institutional barriers that limit women’s economic advancement in agricultural value and market chains. This sphere relates to the attitudes and norms of people within women’s lives and the enterprises women may interact with. The objective will work to transform norms, attitudes and values of men, while at the same time support women to develop sustainable and resilient techniques that mitigate the impacts of climate change. SO 3 (social sphere): To strengthen women’s voice and collective power at community level to increase access to, control and ownership of productive (e.g. physical assets, land) and financial assets among women through women-led local organisations, land tenure and financial inclusion. This objective will seek to support the establishment of women-led local organisations, as well as ensuring that women have more access to financial services including insurance and saving groups. Under this objective, the DWAs and women-led local organisations will be trained to lobby and advocate for increased land rights and secure tenure of fertile land.