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The overall goal of the project is to contribute to gender equality within pastoralists and agro-pastoralists communities through capacity building on gender equality and countering gender-based violence and harmful traditional practices that harm women,youth andgirls in accessing their rights and attaining their potentials in life. The project specific objectives include, raising awareness and knowledge of community groups on gender equality, leadership skills and participation in decision-making processes. Also to promote understanding and awareness of community men, women and youth on land rights and property ownership. The some of immediate outcomes that will support the longer term outcomes by women and youth pastoralists and agro-pastoralists is having better individual andcollective ability to control productive resources including land and natural resources, increased awareness of their socio and economic rights, and have increased leadership and governance skills for greater voice and participation of women and youth in decision making at household, community, government and market levels. Within the context Lareto Co-operative through land rights awareness and education training to the wards, women and youth leaders and communities on land Act No. 4 of 1999 and village Land Act No. 5 of 1999 will ensure their rights on land ownership and use, management, right of ownership roles and responsibilities by gender onall matters regarding family, and village land. The village and ward government leaders, women and youth leaders, traditional leaders, ward land tribunals will be trained and informed on the role of making informed decisions in land matters, importance of genderequality and of helping women and youth marginalized groups in thesociety taking part in political and decision making processes. Rights to property ownership to all community groups will also be emphasized. Empowering the community members on land matters will reduce land conflicts among different land users and this will also guarantees the rights of women and youth to own land and other properties that they can use to promote their livelihood. Equal participation of women and youth in political affairs will help thesegroups to participate and influence decisionmaking on the issues that really matters to them, including land and other rights to economic resources. The project will also enhance the land rights and security through awareness of both men and women in selected villages of Monduli District. The skills and knowledge gained from this project will empower pastoralists and agro-pastoralist women and youths to participate equitably in decision-making within their communities and in government and other relevant forums, and ableto face their specific challenges in promoting and enjoying their livelihoods

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Extension of National Peasant Coalition of Pakistan (NPCP - III) Background: National Peasants Coalition of Pakistan (NPCP) is an initiative of SCOPE, transformed into an Oxfam-Novib supported project during 2011. It is aiming at forming a national level coalition of peasants# and small farmers' organizations that are demanding for the fair land and agrarian reforms in the country. In the endof December 2011, a formal set up of NPCP was set up with a formalized governance structure, secretariat, advisory board and a 3 years strategic plan to revitalize land and agrarian reforms struggle from this national platform. Oxfam Novib (ONL) supported first phase of NPCP-PKS project, through a grant number PAK -506281-0008127, covering period of Jan-Dec. 2011,to push the agenda of agrarian reforms in the country through organizing peasants organizations in an alliance. And at the end of first phase; the second phase was approved from July 12 to Aug 13, under project number A-02421-02-506281. This continuationphase was dedicated to capacity building of NPCP members, media mobilization on land reforms, district level organization and advocacy for land reforms with political parties, media and other stakeholders, information dissemination and organizing regional experience sharing workshop in which regional grassroots land right activists, parliamentarians, media and other stakeholders participated. The project period was filled with intense activities and was able to gain a momentum among land right advocacy in Pakistan. Aims <(>&<)> Objectives: This year under the NPCP project Oxfam Novib <(>&<)> Scope aims to (i) commission research and analysis regarding land and agrarian reforms, to right tofood, linkages between climate variation and impact on small farmers and their food security (ii) pave way for Government institutionalized process for land and agrarian reforms, (iii) link the NPCP with other similar movements within national and regional level, (iv) engage state and government authorities for agrarian and land reforms, also including campaigning and supporting for improvements in tenancy acts at provincial levels, and (v) struggle towards distribution/ redistribution of feudal held land by the state among the landless peasants (vi) Consolidate and raise voices for Right to Food Major outcomes of NPCP for this year would be: - Institutional development and strengthening of NPCP and shaping it as greater national alliance of stakeholders organizations around NPCP, who are solely or partially involved on land rights issues, and - Work to initiate national / provincial level processes to formformal national/ provincial policy in favor of land reforms / land use / land governance

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IS academie Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development