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ON’s contribution of euro 30.000 to the second year of the existing Pan Africa land programme will replace the contribution of OIE (year 1) and will be spent on: 1) The design and commission of 4 country case studies on women’s land rights in Africa and on 2) Theprovision -by a senior land advisor- of strategic support to Oxfam’s Women Land Rights Advisor for analysis and engagement on initiatives that involve women’s land rights policy and indicators. Overall objective of ON’s contribution is to join forces with OUA and OGB to use the present Africa land programm as a means to grow a broader Oxfam land programme at AU level, taking advantage of existing opportunities.

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Community based pilot action for climate-resilient water resources development for life and livelihoods in Rod Kohi/Pachadh belt ofDistrict Rajanpur In Pakistan, spate irrigation covers about 8% of the total irrigated area. It is locally known as Rod Kohi in KPKprovince and Punjab province and Sailaba in the Balochistan province. Across the country, it is often generally referred to as flood irrigation. This kind of irrigation relies on the floods of the hill torrents, which are diverted into a plain area, locally knownas Damaan. In the indigenous systems, farmers divert the spate flow to their fields by constructing breachable earth bunds (called Gandas) across the hill stream and/or stone/gravel spurs leading towards the centre of the river. Spate irrigation farming system ofRod-Kohi areas is a unique system of farming being practiced in Piedmont plains of D.I. Khan (KPK), D.G. Khan and Rajanpur (Punjab), Dadu (Sindh) and in Sulaiman ranges, Kachhi plain, Kharan and Lasbela basins of Balochistan. Balochista has about 1.2 million ha of Sailaba irrigated land. In Punjab province, flash flood water is mainly harvested from Sulaiman mountain range. In KPK, minor spate flows occur in spring and the major floods occur in summer as a result of monsoon rainfall on the Sulaiman range and Lakki-Marwat hills during July and August. In these areas the major constraint is the use of flood flow which is highly variable in quantity and distribution, both in time and space. Annual rainfall is low and uncertain but brings large amount of water with each rainfall event. The agriculture of most of the areas of these regions is totally dependent on rainfall, although affected by flood with rainfall but most of the times remain without water. It is unfortunate that in spite of scarcity of water, major part of flood flows is lost due to mismanagement. The major problem is the unavailability of any kind of storage and modernized engineering structures, though lot of efforts and money were spent in order to control thetorrents flow floods and in humanitarian/relief operations but storage is never considered important. If the proper storage facility and modernized structures are provided in these areas then not only the flood is controlled but also the drought conditions can be mitigated and the crops which have very less yield due to the unavailability of water can be enhanced. The project, will build a knowledge base related to water sector especially water resource management through building facilities for utilizing perennial water from Darrah Kaha Sultan and attract the attention of the stakeholders to extremely water-stressed Rod Kohi belt of district Rajanpur which may be a turning point for these communities and Water Resources Management catalyzed by this initiative will revitalize the downtrodden communities again. 'Darrah Kaha Sultan', the major Rod Kohi outlet in the district located in Jampur tehsil, and its main perennial stream 'Alif Wah' with sub-streams is the main focus of the project. Project Objectives: OVERALL OBJECTIVE: # To enable the stakeholders for efficient water resources development for increased agricultural and livelihoods productivity in water-stressed Rod Kohi/Pachadh belt of District Rajanpur through developing knowledge base and evaluating pilot interventions SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: # To assist water-stressed communities of Rod Kohi belt of Rajanpur in pursuing their struggle for water rights and sustainable livelihoods through increasing land productivity # To evaluate the performanceof Rod Kohi/spate irrigation/water diversion system in District Rajanpur and identify innovative techniques for improving its performance and land productivity # To contribute in water resources development efforts of Government of Pakistan throughdeveloping irrigation water resources in Rod Kohi areas of District Rajanpur

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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.