General

The Department of Agrarian Reform launched the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling Project (SPLIT) in October 2020, which will grant individual titles to collective CLOA holders as mandated under CARP within three years. But land rights groups, like ORKALEFF and KAISAHAN, caution DAR to first ensure that ARBs are not vulnerable to pawning or selling their land and are capable to make their land productive. In Leyte, SPLIT targets 3,000 collective CLOAs awarded to farmers now in their 60s or mid-50s ordeceased. Some may be unable to farm but with heirs who can continue farming their land. It is crucial that these ARBs retain land ownership, especially now with the economic pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic. How will the SPLIT project involve these ageing farmers and their heirs given COVID-19 restrictions for senior citizens and mass gatherings? ORKALEFF and KAISAHAN targets to influence DAR to ensure that ageing ARB members and their heirs are qualified to benefit from the SPLIT project, are not disenfranchised, and understand the repercussions of individual titling under SPLIT on their land rights. Specifically, it targets the following: 1. Local and national criteria and processes for the validation and prioritization of beneficiaries under the SPLIT project are influenced in favor of the qualified ageing ARBs and youth heirs. 2. Ageing ORKALEFF members and youth heirs are not disenfranchised or forced into parcelization by the SPLIT processes. 3. Clearer policies on ARB succession in collective EPs/CLOAs and policy or government directives on the provision of support services to ARB SPLIT beneficiaries are issued. The project will focus on ORKALEFF members in Ormoc City and Kananga and KAISAHAN partner ARB organizations in municipalities of Capoocan and Alangalang in Leyte. Other key actors are DAR, concerned agencies and CSO advocates.

Objectives

The proposed interventions will contribute to promoting IDPs dignity, host communities and improve living conditions of affected targeted groups to meet commonly acceptable humanitarian principles through the provision of cash for rental subsidies to 300 displaced households and host communities living in rented houses under risk of eviction due to their the inabilities to meet the rental charges in Ibb city,. Priority will be given for women/children headed households, elderly people, people with physical or mental disabilities, people with special needs, and people with multiple vulnerabilities. The cash transfer will conduct through a money transfer agency for 6 months after conducting market assessment by AOBWC to select the agency who have good access and experience in CTP programs in the targeted areas, Under long-term/transitional shelters solutions, AOBWC will provide returnees with conditional cash to rehabilitate their damaged houses and improve their tenure security the project will support 50 households of returned people through multi cash payments for rehabilitation houses which have been partially damaged due to the conflict in Al Mudhaffar district Taizz city, as well as the construction of 93 transitional shelters for IDPs living in substandard or emergency shelters within hosting sites in Ash Shamayatayn district, priority will be given for affected people with multiple vulnerabilities based on detail needs assessment and verifications by AOBWC team. The project team will conduct house-to-house technical needs assessment to develop BoQs per house then provide the cash to implement rehabilitation works under AOBWC technical engineer’s supervision with highly participation of targeted groups., also transitional shelter BoQs will be created at the start of project implementation to construct 93 transitional shelters through service provider in highly participation of targeted groups under AOBWC technical engineer’s supervision in line with shelter cluster guidance. AOBWC is a women lead organization mainly targeting women/girls with disabilities, it is has a good experience in Shelter/ SNFIs especially with YHF funds along five years ago through conducting of three Shelter/CCCM projects under YHF. AOBWC has sub -offices and ongoing presence in Taizz and Ibb governorate through two YHF shelter/NFIs and CCCM projects during 2022 and by other funds under protection and FSL. Under (P2) , AOBWC has carried out shelter need assessment in Ibb district, Ibb gov and Al Shamayteen and Al Mudhafer districts within Taiz gov showed facts of lack of access to services for the most vulnerable IDPs , Returns and HCs also as a result of the conflict in Yemen since 2015 leaded to the huge needs of basic life-saving in shelter interventions where this project will result into that the targeted most vulnerable beneficiaries of IDPs, Returnees and HCs to outcomes that improve their dignified access to shelter interventions through provide life-saving shelter solutions to 443 households, 3103 individuals (898 Men , 591 Women, 559 boys, 1055 girls) of the most vulnerable IDPs, host communities at risk of eviction and returnees including people with disabilities and people with special needs in Ibb and Taizz governorates. The project is aligned with YHF’s first standards allocations - 2022 strategy to achieve shelter/NFIs cluster objectives and activities.

Objectives

NRC proposal is in line with priority two (P2) of the second standard allocation of 2021. The proposed intervention aims to facilitate local integration of IDPs in Al-Zuhra and Al-Asha in Al- Hodeida and Amran governorates respectively, while facilitating reintegration of IDP returnees in Alqahira, and Mudhafar in Taiz. Alqahira and Mudhafar districts in Taiz: NRC will assist returnees to re-establish themselves in areas of returns by providing them with cash to rehabilitate their damaged houses and improve their tenure security. NRC will rehabilitate damaged houses for 300 HHs (464 men, 456 women, 550 boys, 560 girls). HLP support will be provided to shelter beneficiaries including tenure documentation, while strengthening their community-based dispute resolution mechanism. Community-based protection mechanism will be strengthened by providing individualized case management, emergency cash and referrals to specialized services. Additionally, NRC will rehabilitate Water supply schemes, upgrade to solar system, and conduct hygiene promotion using behavioral change and communication approach (BCC) for 3268 HHs (6836 men, 7975 women, 4557 boys, 3418 girls) returnees and vulnerable host community. To cover the gaps in other priority sectors, NRC identified SOUL as the main partner providing complimentary education focusing on teacher incentives, support to non-formal education, and construction of latrines. Save the children will compliment NRC on LFS (cash for work). Human Access will be the health partner in Al-Qahira, while DEEM will cover health/ WASH gaps in AlMudhffer. Al-Ash district, Amran: NRC will focus on education integrated with protection while CARE will implement complimentary component consisting of WASH (Water supply and hygiene promotion), LFS (Cash for Work) to facilitate local integration. Due to lack of damaged houses, NRC did not find Shelter rehabilitations suitable for the district. Since health is outside of NRC’s scope of work, target groups in need of health care will be referred to WHO supported local district health office. On education, NRC aims to ensure safe and equitable access to education for displacement affected children. A total of 1,300 children (541 boys, 759 girls) will be provided with education through a comprehensive approach adopted to address identified barriers to education. NRC will provide cash for referrals to support 600 children at-risk in accessing specialized services. In addition to the cash assistance, the cases will be provided with: - Emotional support through psychological first aid and - Legal assistance Al-Zuhra district, Al-Hodeida: To facilitate the local integration NRC will provide WASH, Education and protection including HLP. NRC with partner with ACF on health care, while CARE will implement the cash for work. NRC did not find Shelter rehabilitations suitable for Al-Zuhra district, hence was dropped in consultation with the Shelter cluster. Under WASH NRC will focus on the rehabilitation of water supply schemes, construction of latrine through MBP mainly cash for latrine and will implement hygiene promotion activities using BCC approach for 2656HHs (4328 men, 4515 women, 4811 boys, 4938 girls) IDP, and vulnerable host community. On education, NRC aims to ensure safe and equitable access to education for displacement affected children through rehabilitation or expansion of schools to increase access to disability- and gender-sensitive WASH facilities and Provision of educational supplies. NRC will support five schools in the district supporting 2,000 children (1,100 boys, 900 girls). . On protection, NRC will prioritize mobile protection in Al-Zuhra by providing individualized case management, emergency cash, light HLP support and referrals to specialized services for vulnerable persons. NRC will ensure that Education CC will work closely with WASH CC to identify WASH needs in schools with technical support from WASH sector.