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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.

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Oxfam Novib# Lobby and Advocacy Team has decided to invest in programme development, one of the focus this year is on strengtheningOxfam# GROW campaign . An Action Plan was developed in March 2014 # initial work involves different countries in Asia region linking local campaign strategies to national, regional and global campaign strategies of GROW. This global GROW programme will build on on-going GROW national campaigns in Asian countries, the South Asia and Southeast Asia GROW regional campaigns and advocacy work at the international level. A Core Group has been set up to deliver the Action Plan in close coordination with Oxfam Novib Regional Manager for Asia and the head of the Lobby and Advocacy Team. The evolving programme areas are focused on 3 themes (with knowledge management as cross cutting): right to food/food justice, land governance, and climate adaptation. So far, concept notes have been developed already defining the (1) regional (East Asia and South Asia) GROW campaign strategies targeting national governments and regional institutions (ASEAN, Asian Development Bank); (2) global Right to Food influencing work (involving 3 Asian countries), and (3) land governance advocacy in the Mekong Region. The consultant is expected to use these regional programme ideas in helping country and regional Oxfam teams identify local/national to regional/global campaign strategies which is core to her/his task towards designing the global GROW programme framework. This global framework (programme summary/cpncept note) will be used in contacting and exploring partnership with external donors.

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WiLDAF Mali is one of the members of the Panafrican network WiLDAF / FeDDAF (Women in Law and Development in Africa / Femmes Droitset Développement en Afrique) The network brings together 500 organisations and 1200 individuals, all involved in womens rights in Africa. WiLDAF Mali was created in 1995. At present more than 20 organisations and more than 50 individuals are associated to WiLDAF Mali. It has an office in Bamako, another bureau in Gao and a rights clinic in Kayes. Programmes are implementedin Bamako District, and in the regions Gao, Tomboctou, Kidal, Sikasso and Kayes. The organisation is involved in trainings, awareness raising and legal support and works to the benefit of women, children, adolescents, councillors at municipality level andlegal authorities such as judges, lawyers, students and teachers at the law faculty at university, policemen and physisians. WiLDAF Mali plays also an important role in national issues and is as such recognised by the civil society and the government. Theprogramme aims to promote the rights of women in Mali with the specific focus for women access to propriety land . It was for both parties(OXFAM NOVIB/WILDAF MALI) to have diagnostic data on the situation of land grabbing in areas of Macina (Ségou)and valleys and furnished Baguinéda Sélingué (Koulikoro and Sikasso). These data will be analyzed to deduce the impact of the phenomenon on socio-economic rights of women in these areas. For this, four specific tracks were identified. Specifically, it is, among other things: - Understand and define the mechanisms, instruments and current extent of the massive acquisition of land in the study areas; - Document and evaluate the impact of acquisitions on massive land rights to food security and livelihoods of women in the study areas; - Identify and analyze the implementation of laws, policies and regulatory provisions to promote women's access to land in the study areas;