General

The Indigenous Support Programme (ISP) was created in 2004 to guarantee indigenous rights to land use and demarcation, health, bi-lingual education and cultural preservation in the face of ineffective public policy implementation, the emerging threats of legal amendments that will adversely affect indigenous rights, the encroachment of indigenous lands by large-scale projects, and increasing changes in weather patterns due to climate change. CAFOD set up this programme with several organizations supporting them financially and technically. At each of its 3 year cycle, the program defined common work objectives. Throughout its existence, diverse factors influenced the composition of the Program, with the entry and exit of organisations. CAFOD set up the Several organisations supported financially and technically by CAFOD made up the ISP. At present, the ISP is made up of 4 organisations: Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), Indigenous Missionary Council - Prelature of Tefé (CIMI-Tefé), Hutukara Yanomami Association (HAY) and Socio-environmental Institute (ISA). Since its creation, the ISP went through 3 evaluations. The last one took place in 2013 and guided the construction of the latest cycle (2014-2018) involving 3 priority thematic axes, defined in agreement with the partners: (i) Territorial management and climate change; (ii) Indigenous rights and development threats; (iii) Institutional strengthening. Throughout this cycle, CAFOD financed 15 projects, totaling £634,673.37.

General

Within the project, an initial workshop with the two local communities involved will take place, SDI's existing land mapping guides will be updated, the communities' land use and natural resources will be mapped, the communities' land use norms will be doc umented, their awareness of how to tackle investors interested in land acquisition will be increased, communication material and radio programmes will be produced. Finally, the lessons learnt during the project will be analysed and shared with national and international decision-makers. Liberia is one of the African countries, which has granted most land concessions to the national elite and foreign investors; 25% of its land area. The land is used for industrial agriculture as well as forestry and mining i ndustries, for instance rubber and oil palm plantations. Consequences include forced displacement of local communities, environmental damage, human rights violations, livelihood uncertainty and land conflicts. Therefore, communities lack legal advice, info rmation on the consequences of contracting their lands, and ways to get investors to respect the contracts made. The aim of the project is to gather best practices on how to support communities to protect their traditional lands, resources, livelihoods and cultures. By increasing the capacity of the communities, the aim is to raise awareness of their land governance strategies. In addition, the aim is to ensure participatory, responsible and informed decision-making of the communities when deciding on their land and resource management. They will also be supported in negotiating and reaching a fair compensation on investments regarding their lands. The project will be implemented with two local communities in the River Cess county (approximately 7,000 commun ity members). The communities are mostly members of the forest dependent Bassa tribe. Typical livelihoods are related to agriculture, fishing, hunting, traditional medicine, artisan mining and non-timber forest products (rattan).

General

Unterstützung der Netzwerkarbeit ländlicher Zentren in Madagaskar zur Förderung der Nahrungsmittelsicherheit und Absicherung von Landrechten

Objectives

Das Netzwerk "BIMTT" leistet einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung der sozioökonomischen Situation kleinbäuerlicher Haushalte in Madagaskar und zur Sicherung ihrer produktiven Ressourcen. Es arbeitet insbesondere daran, die Zahl der aktiven Mitgliedsorganisationen zu erhöhen, die sich zu Themen der nachhaltigen Landwirtschaft beraten und austauschen. Die Mitgliedsorganisationen werden auch verstärkt versuchen, die Bodenrechte der Bevölkerung zu verteidigen und Politiker(innen) für die Landreform und Zugang zu Land zu beeinflussen.