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Ariane Hildebrandt: “Community engagement is key to restore the land”

kneditor — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 08:41:47 +0000

About GLF Africa 2024

Can Africa show the world a sustainable way forward? The climate crisis is taking a toll on Africa – and especially on rural communities that depend on natural resources for their livelihoods.

On 17 September, thousands of participants gathered at ‘GLF Africa 2024: Greening the African Horizon’ in Nairobi, Kenya, and online for a global conference focused on forging a prosperous and sustainable future for Africa’s land- and seascapes, driven by local solutions.

About Ariane Hildebrandt

Dr. Ariane Hildebrandt, Director General at Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) since September 2023, oversees global health, equality, digital technologies, and food security, including areas like social protection, education, sustainable supply chains, and rural development. Previously, she led policy, data, and effectiveness, managing bilateral development cooperation and implementing agencies (GIZ, KfW). With a career at BMZ since 1998, she also worked at the Federal Ministry of Finance and the University of Würzburg, where she earned her PhD. She holds a degree in economics and an MBA from the State University of New York at Albany.

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Deborah Oyugi: “Our voices have to be heard”

kneditor — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:43:49 +0000

About GLF Africa 2024

Can Africa show the world a sustainable way forward? The climate crisis is taking a toll on Africa – and especially on rural communities that depend on natural resources for their livelihoods.

On 17 September, thousands of participants gathered at ‘GLAF Africa 2024: Greening the African Horizon’ in Nairobi, Kenya, and online for a global conference focused on forging a prosperous and sustainable future for Africa’s land- and seascapes, driven by local solutions.

About Deborah Oyugi

Deborah is a seasoned Safeguarding/ PSEAH expert with over a decade of experience in implementation of global safeguarding frameworks, investigations support, and Protection and Rights programming. Deborah volunteers as the English Countries Manager and Safeguarding Lead at YILAA. She also serves as the Global Officer, Safeguarding and Ethics, at the International Justice Mission. A member of the Youth Advisory Group in the International Land Coalition and the Advisory Board at CleanUp Kenya, Deborah is dedicated to creating safe, secure and inclusive environments globally and locally.

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Women’s land rights: A pathway towards effective climate actions, degradation neutrality and enhancing livelihood resilience

kneditor — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:50:16 +0000

About GLF Africa 2024

Can Africa show the world a sustainable way forward? The climate crisis is taking a toll on Africa – and especially on rural communities that depend on natural resources for their livelihoods.

About this session

Women play a key role in sustainable agriculture and land-based livelihoods, supporting food security and biodiversity. However, they are especially vulnerable to climate change due to their dependence on land resources. Extreme weather events, such as droughts and floods, are making once-productive land barren, fueling conflict and migration.

Gender inequality further limits women’s control over land, leaving those in poverty unable to defend their rights. Secure land rights are essential for climate change mitigation, adaptation, and restoration efforts. Organizations like ILC Africa work to strengthen women’s land tenure rights, building resilience and fostering a sustainable future for all.

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Rights-based approaches and Indigenous peoples and local communities: Findings from a literature review

kneditor — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:33:49 +0000

This preliminary assessment of rights-based approaches (RBAs) seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussions of RBAs for Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs). RBAs purposefully position the recognition of, respect for, and access to individual and collective rights as central to an initiative’s planning, design, implementation, process monitoring, and outcomes. In mainstream climate change, conservation, and development programs and policies, this means refocusing the relationship between “beneficiaries” and “implementers” to one of rights-holders and duty-bearers. RBAs hold growing discursive importance in relation to the rights of IPs and LCs in conservation and climate change spheres, including the agendas of international agencies. The growing interest in RBAs, and their inclusion in frameworks that will guide development, conservation, and climate projects over the next decade, is laudable. However, few reviews seek to understand how RBAs emerged and how they have been conceptualized. Such analysis is a necessary basis from which to advance discussions on the impact of RBAs and provide lessons to support them. In this review, our primary interest is the conception, conceptualization, and implementation of RBAs in forest-based initiatives, but we reviewed the wider scholarly and gray literature on RBAs in development, conservation, and climate action initiatives.

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Why control and ownership of land by women matters in land restoration

kneditor — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:21:56 +0000

About GLF Nairobi 2023: ‘A new Vision for Earth’

The GLF Nairobi 2023 Hybrid Conference, held on October 11 and 12, convened global thought leaders to set the stage for COP28, the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. This pivotal event mobilised action on critical issues affecting humanity, biodiversity, and our planet.

The conference featured two focused days: Day 1 centered on “Africa’s Sovereign Solutions,” exploring pathways to a sustainable and prosperous future for the continent. Day 2, dedicated to climate, aimed to craft a “Survival Guide for a Planet in Crisis,” paving the way for a fairer world ahead of COP28.

GLF Nairobi brought together a diverse coalition of influential voices, ranging from scientists, activists, and Indigenous leaders to financiers, women, youth, policymakers, and private sector representatives. As a united front, we collectively championed change and passionately advocated for meaningful action in these pivotal times.

About this session

The side event, co-organized with the Stand 4 Her Land Campaign, GROOTS Kenya, and ILC Africa, brought grassroots women, government and CSO representatives, as well as international development agencies together to: 1) highlight the nexus between land restoration, secure women land rights, and addressing the climate crises; 2) share knowledge and successful practices by women restoring land in highland and rangeland ecosystems; 3) create opportunities for networking and alliance building to advance land restoration goals.

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Safeguarding Indigenous Rights and Territories: Integrating Dayak Ngaju Wisdom in Peatland Ecosystem Management

kneditor — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:39:53 +0000

Highlights

Indonesia’s legal system favors state land ownership, marginalizing Indigenous Dayak communities and disrupting traditional practices.
Economic development prioritization over conservation results in a limited understanding of the value of peatland ecosystems for the Indigenous Dayak.
Community-led solutions, like a peatland zonation system, reveal policy challenges, including conflicts from the lack of informed consent and weak enforcement of laws recognizing Indigenous rights in Indonesia.

Ensuring the Safety of Peatlands: A Continuing Struggle

This research examines challenges faced by Indigenous Dayak communities in Indonesia due to a legal system favoring state land ownership, leading to the marginalization of these communities and disruption of their traditional land management practices. The prioritization of economic development over environmental and cultural conservation has resulted in a limited understanding of the value of the peatland ecosystem for Indigenous Dayak communities, leading to ineffective policies.

To address these issues, the research employs a descriptive qualitative approach, utilizing in-depth interviews and literature studies within the Tumbang Nusa and Pilang villages in Central Kalimantan. The findings reveal that the Indigenous Dayak Ngaju community has established a zonation system for peatland use, emphasizing the importance of specific policies to preserve sacred areas, vital for Indigenous values and practices.

However, the absence of free, prior, and informed consent in certain government initiatives, such as the Mega Rice project, Food Estate program, and Zero-burning policy, has resulted in social conflicts within the Indigenous Dayak community, leading to the destruction of their livelihoods. Despite existing laws in Indonesia acknowledging Indigenous rights and safeguarding customary lands, the research underscores the weak and inconsistent implementation and enforcement of these legal safeguards.

Iber Djamal, Dayak’s community elder and the main resource person for this research. Credit: Sumarni Sumarni.

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Solange Bandiaky-Badji’s vision for Earth

kneditor — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:48:18 +0000

About GLF Nairobi 2023: ‘A new Vision for Earth’

About Solange Bandiaky-Badji

Delve into this inspiring vision for Earth from Dr. Solange Bandiaky-Badji, coordinator and president of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a global coalition advocating for the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples.

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Jochen Flasbarth: “Addressing landscapes means addressing land rights”

kneditor — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:33:58 +0000

About GLF Nairobi 2023: ‘A new Vision for Earth’

About Jochen Flasbarth

Don’t miss the chance to be part of an extraordinary experience at the GLF Nairobi 2023 Hybrid Conference, as we take you on a remarkable journey with our must-see speakers campaign.

Join Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, at the opening plenary on Day 1: Africa of the global event.

Learn more about the GLF Nairobi 2023 Hybrid Conference here

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Safeguards for carbon markets: Prioritizing local tenure rights

kneditor — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:59:35 +0000

About GLF Nairobi 2023: ‘A new Vision for Earth’

About this session

Well managed carbon markets can provide opportunities for nature, communities and the economy. However, the introduction and implementation of carbon credit schemes also comes with serious risks: people with insecure tenure rights risk being excluded from benefit sharing and decision making and could even being forced off their land.

This session discussed the risks of carbon markets to local communities without tenure rights, as well as ways to address them and allow community members to become active stakeholders in carbon markets and reap the benefits.

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Safeguards for Carbon Markets – Prioritizing Local Communities’ Tenure Rights

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Launch of the Land Rights Standard: finding common ground

kneditor — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:44:56 +0000

GLF Climate: Frontiers of Change

Hosted on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, and online, GLF Climate 2022: Frontiers of Changeunited 7,000 participants from 164 countries and rallied over 27 million people on social media around what humanity can still do to avoid the worsening impacts of the climate crisis.

Featuring 228 leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth and government leaders, and 96 incredible partner organizations, the second edition of GLF Climate called for a just transition to a stewardship economy that puts people and nature first.

Launch of the Land Rights Standard

Why is it essential for non-state actors to follow common principles that ensure their climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development investments are rights-based? How can we elevate the rights and aspirations of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-Descendant Peoples? And what is the role of women and youth in all of this?

This launchpad answers these questions and elaborates on the importance and potential impact of the Land Rights Standard in setting a bar for protecting landscapes. Hear the stories from participants in the Indigenous-led process that led to the Standard.