Our Community Empowerment program focuses on supporting Land Titling for all communities through Advocacy/Awareness Raising, Education/Capacity Building, and Campaigning. With these initiatives, we aim to build resilient communities capable of protecting their environments and improving their livelihoods.
IP Community Land Titling
Objectives: empowering local communities and supporting them in obtaining legal tenure over their land, while ensuring sustainable livelihood and reliable income is the best way to protect local forests.
- Activities:
- Creating community management committee
- Creating management plans
- Mapping community land
- Assembling legal documents and by-laws
- Facilitating meetings and consultations with local and national government.
- Preparing Application documents
Impact: Through Land Titling, Indigenous communities are empowered to efficiently manage their resources in a sustainable and resilient manner. The process is lengthy (years) and can be daunting, but it is a real victory to be able to claim the communities rights with legal documents. All the other activities support the sustainable management of the Land, so that when the title is obtained, the communities are already capable of managing it.
– Resources Management Training –
land mapping
electing committee members
drafting management plan
obtaining legal documents
finally obtaining Land Title
Capacity building and Education
Objectives: FLO aims to enhance the capacity of marginalized communities and community-based organizations (CBOs) to understand their rights, particularly their right to access information and manage their local natural resources.
- Activities:
- Rights Education: Conducting workshops and training sessions to educate communities about their legal rights to natural resources.
- Leadership and Management Training: Building the skills of community leaders to effectively manage CBOs and advocate for their communities.
- Resource Management Training: Providing technical training on sustainable resource management practices.
Impact: Through capacity building and education, communities are empowered to take ownership of their natural resources, advocate for their rights, and engage in sustainable management practices that benefit their livelihoods and the environment.
– Leadership and Management training –
– Community Based Organization Meeting –
– Workshop on CBO management –
– Community Rights Workshop –
– Resources Management Network Training –
– Resources Management Training –
– Training with Youth and Indigenous Peoples –
– Youth Documenting Land pressure –
– Youth Gathering – Rights Advocacy training –
– Youth Group training on Gender equality –
– Youth Group Promoting Community Rights –
Campaigning
Objectives: To mobilize community efforts and raise awareness about the importance of sustainable and legal natural resource extraction, while advocating against illegal activities such as logging and poaching.
- Activities:
- Youth Engagement: Working with youth groups to campaign against illegal resource extraction and promote sustainable practices.
- Youth Gatherings: Organizing events to disseminate information about the impacts of illegal activities and the benefits of sustainable practices.
- Promoting Community Rights: Educating communities on their rights to use natural resources sustainably.
- Documentation: Recording pressures on community forestry and collective land titling to raise awareness and seek intervention.
Impact: Campaigning activities foster a sense of responsibility among youth and the broader community, encouraging them to pursue sustainable practices and advocate for legal resource management. This helps in building a strong, informed community that can effectively protect and manage their natural resources.
Awareness raising – Community Land Titling –
Awareness Raising – Community Leadership Training –
Awareness Raising – Land Titling –
Awareness Raising – National Networking event –
Awareness Raising – National Networking event –
Awareness Raising – Information signs –
Awareness raising – Advocacy
Objectives: Enhance access to information and foster greater community participation in decisions related to the use and management of natural resources. Provide better access to justice.
- Activities:
- Establishment of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs): We help form and support CBOs, building their capacity to understand their rights and manage their resources.
- Information Sharing and Networking: CBOs are connected across regions and with NGOs and local authorities, for learning, information sharing, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Community Land Titling: FLO supports communities in their land titling process.
Impact: These activities empower communities to confidently seek support from authorities during adverse times and advocate for sustainable natural resource management. This promotes community-led development and ensures that communities have a voice in the management of their local resources.