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Safeguarding Lepcha and Limbu cultural values and worldviews for conservation and sustainable development in the Eastern Himalayas, India
… and practices effectively combine food production with sustainable development, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem protection. … establishment of BCHTs for sustainable development, and Enhancing understanding of the role of biocultural heritage in addressing the … region’s Development Plan by working closely with the communities at village level, and a proposed BCHT as an FAO Globally Important …
Publication, 06 August 2021
Forestry tractor carrying fruits from a field
ALIGN: Advancing Land-based Investment Governance
Project, 22 September 2020
A Tanzanian woman farmer displays her crop. With commercial pressures on land increasing, women farmers in Africa need support to understand, and speak up for, fair land governance (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Strengthening women’s voices in land decisions: what works?
… and over three days – focusing on Ghana and Tanzania – built a deeper understanding of the community land governance frameworks in each … gender quotas (the minimum number of women required to be members of village councils) and clear democratic processes for allocating land – … Nanton Traditional Area, where they have established ‘community land development committees’ (CLDCs) to mediate between chiefs who administer …
Insight, 31 January 2019
Women opening the fruit of the marula tree to extract the kernel for making marula oil (Photo: CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Encouraging collaboration: drafting a new law to stop biopiracy in Namibia
… helped by the existing structure of topical cross-department steering committees – the Interim Bioprospecting Committee being one of them – … abide by the bill. Support could come from well-resourced conservancy committees. He welcomes the fact that national government consulted … , UNEP (2012) Stories of change: mainstreaming biodiversity and development , IIED, UNEP-WCMC (2015) IIED tool  Indigenous natural …
Article, 21 March 2016
Example of Volanta pump in use - note pump parts external to mounting - Niger
Global Water Initiative: Niger
… represents more than 43% of GDP and 44% of export revenues Planned development of 10,000 hectares of new irrigated land GWI focus dam: … of repair work in 2010 (to two boreholes with manual pumps and six village wells) and construction in 2011 (of nine OFEDES village wells) … in water-resource management; stakeholders have gained a greater understanding of their role in water-resource management as a result of …
Project, 16 February 2018
A woman farming in Tanzania. Efforts are being made to ensure women are less negatively affected by decisions on large-scale agricultural investments than men (Photo: Dirk Musschoot/vredeseilanden, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Enhancing women's role in land management decisions
… enhanced at the local level, focusing on commercial agriculture and village bylaws in Tanzania.   The recent wave of large-scale land … and equal representation of men and women in village councils and committees. Consultation and adoption process  TAWLA then held … and legal tools consultant at IIED focusing on law and sustainable development. Resources Slides from the webinar, including a presentation …
Insight, 24 March 2016
Four people sit on the floor to look at a map on the ground.
In her name: securing land tenure for women in Zambia
… women as landowners The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Integrated Land and Resource Governance … leaders to promote meaningful participation of women in local land committees and gender-sensitive conflict resolution. In Zambia’s Eastern … will be securing the future of my children.’’ – Fashion Lungu, Mtizwa village, Eastern Province, Zambia With USAID support, the Chipata and …
Insight, 14 October 2021
A woman harvests palm fruit in Tanzania
Local solutions to strengthen women’s voices in land governance
… links below: Tanzania: supporting the adoption of gender sensitive village by-laws Ghana: strengthening gender sensitive Community Land Development Committees Senegal: including women on Land Commissions … and certifying land rights in a specific area. Only with a good understanding of how land is governed and stronger voices in the …
Article, 13 May 2019
Example of bucket and pulley system on a traditional well - Senegal
Global Water Initiative: Senegal
… security policies, namely through the National Social and Economic Development Strategy (SNDES), the National Rice Self-Sufficiency Plan … worked with four communities in the Anambé river basin to promote understanding and implementation of local resource use agreements known … (ie for drinking water or livestock watering). They also set up village financing structures, tailored to households' means and …
Project, 16 February 2018
Children using water pump in Burkina Faso
Global Water Initiative: Burkina Faso
… hectares of irrigation schemes in Burkina Faso (20% of potential development area for large-scale irrigation) 17,000 hectares of new … Each family's head of the household is a representative member of the village collective and responsible for the family's allocated plot. … in natural-resource governance in the Upper Sirba sub-basin Improving understanding of the quality and quantity of water resources in the …
Project, 16 February 2018