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The Global Call to Action (GCA) is an initiative co-convened by ILC, RRI and Oxfam that aims to catalyze greater global action around community land rights through strengthening, growing and connecting existing local and national networks and organizations, and up-scale local-to-global. The GCA#s goal is #to double the area of land recognized as owned or controlled by indigenous peoples and local communities by 2020#. In late 2014, Oxfam has received a grant from ILC to host the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager. This grant is due to expire in January 2016, when the GCA will be launched officially through a Campaign Report. The first year of implementation is considered of strategic importance to boost the initiative and consolidate the platform, after the launch of the Campaign Report. This grant would allow the recruitment of a GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager for an additional year, and provide her/him with some resources to support the implementation of the 2016 Campaign Strategy by the three Co-Conveners, and Participants in the GCA. Terms of reference of the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager will be defined in consultation with the three Co-conveners inthe first month of implementation of the grant. The grant will also allow the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager to support a suitable partner organization, at the regional level to carry out campaign activities in the region. The partner organization could ideally be an ILC Member with a strong track record on indigenous and community land rights, and linkages with Oxfam#s work, so as to ensure collaboration among the three entities, but decision will be made in due course.

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The aim of this particular project is to ensure the participation of leading civil society organizations on land rights in the activities of the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights and more specifically the Bern-conference: Scaling Up the Implementation of Community Land and Resource Rights, that will take place on September 30th and October 1st. The Bern conference provides an important opportunity for ensuring Southern participation in the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights and mobilizing and broadening the scope of the campaign. The expected results are: •12 leading Southern CSO’s will participate in the Bern Conference and the meeting of the steering committee of the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights. •250 representatives of national, regional and international CSO’s, IGO’s, multilateral organizations, researchers and land rights activists will attend an interactive debate at the Bern conference: Making Community Land Rights a Global Priority. Leading African CSOs will contribute to this session. •50 participants will participate in a strategy meeting on the Global Campaign on Indigenous and Community Land Rights. Leading African CSOs will contribute to this session. •Finally the project proposal also aims to ensure that women’s land rights and property rights are prioritized in the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights.

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Overall objective: To create equal opportunities for vulnerable people to access to natural resources and to enhance land governance at levels in term of effectiveness, efficiency, responsiveness, accountability and transparency. Component 1: Legal aid to people who lose land or in land disputes Objective: To fight against social injustice through provision of legal information and a legal aid for limited resource farmers and disadvantageous communities dealing with protecting their land use rights andbenefits. Output 1: People who lose their land or in land disputes access to legal support services. Output 2: Grass-roots staffs are capable of providing legal aids for local people. Component 2: Policy advocacy Objective: To enable the policy makershear the voice and perspectives of vulnerable people (farmers, poor and ethnic people) and experts relating to agriculture and forestry land use and management to develop better policies. Output 1: Researches# results on cases of land loss and compensation are disseminated to policy makers and publicize to the public. Output 2: Policy makers take vulnerable groups# opinions and wishes into account in the policy making process. Target Area and Beneficiaries The Land Governance Program (LGP) now seekstointegrate interventions at grass roots levels (village,commune, district and province) and to provide evidence for national level advocacy work. The LGP will focus on beneficiaries who are farmers and ethnic minority people (vulnerable groups) and targetat agriculture land. For the first objective, two provinces are selected as the program#s target areas. The program will work in two poor communes in one district per each province where local people depend much on agricultural production and/ or bothagricultural and forestry land. Target communes will be areas that the percentage of farmers must account for at least 70% of the total population. It is better if have agriculture land were or will be recovered by the government in these communes because people here are direct affected land users. Through the LGP, land users will have more opportunities to access to legal information and receive legal advices and assistance of land problems. Therefore, they would havemore power and voice in defend their legitimate land use rights from the land acquisition, also improve their livelihoods and diversify their livelihood options. Local government staff and mass organization members are also direct beneficiaries of the program. They will receive training courses and attend workshops to enhance their capacities, knowledge and skills of legal aid and land administration. For the second objective, Oxfam will be a bridge to connect different perspectives of land issues from grass roots levels to policy makers through researches so that both direct and indirect beneficiaries are research institutes, universities, local authorities and policy-makers who take part in research activities and policy dialogues. Target areas for researches selected will be provinces withgood or bad practices of the land acquisition process and compensation (such as Nam Dinh, Da Dang, Bac Giang provinces/cities, etc.) in order to find out good recommendations for the policy-makers.