Improving Tenure Security of Smallholder Farmers in Select Areas in the Philippines
This component shall strengthen skills and capacities of communities on land tools and approaches. Among the major activities are to: a) validate and further analyze the tenurial security concerns of the communities, b) introduce Social Tenure Domain Model and enumeration, and c) conduct landscape governance training incorporating land use, addressing land conflicts, enhancing women and youth participation.
This component shall contribute to strengthening the institutional capacities of the partner IP organizations. As such, community organizing will be undertaken by XSF. Recognizing and respecting the culture and traditional governance system, training courses on leadership, management, and planning will be offered and presented as options. As the ancestral domains sustainable development and protection plans (ADSDPPs) will guide the communities in governing and managing their ancestral domains, ADSDPPs shall be formulated/updated by IP organizations and negotiated with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP).
This component shall contribute to building awareness and fostering multi-stakeholder mechanisms among change agents to improve tenurial security. Priority will be given to existing mechanisms rather than create new structures. At the regional level, this initiative shall work with the Regional Land Use Committee (RLUC). Chaired by the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA). RLUC is an inter-agency mechanism where various government agencies tackle issues related to tenure and explore ways on how their respective programs can be harmonized.
At the same time, participation in selected national policy initiatives shall be a key strategy as tenure and governance rights of IPs are inter-related to legislative issues such as land use, indigenous community and conservation areas, expanded national integrated protected areas, etc.
This component shall document key interventions and lessons learned to improve knowledge on land issues and measures for improving tenure security of target groups and influence policy and practice. Policy briefs on tenurial security and land tools shall be developed as a result of the other components (land tool, capacity development and fostering multi-stakeholder dialogues). Publication of field stories in relation to interventions and lessons learned shall likewise be included as part of the communication plan.
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