Rights to land and livelihoods

1. Rights to land and livelihoods Christian Aid’s approach

2. How we work • Partnership + • Empowerment and strengthening movements for global justice • Campaigning, advocacy and media work to expose and change systems and structures that keep people poor • Organisational focus on climate change and tax justice campaigns, but country and regional work may have different emphasis

3. 2010 -11 ‘Turning Hope into Action’ Secure livelihoods Accountable governance Economic justice HIV Building the movement for global justice Thematic priorities

4. What can CA do to support rights to land and livelihoods? • Raise awareness of importance of land tenure/access to resources and processes contributing to dispossession • Advocate directly to the UK government and organisations such as the European Union, UN, World Bank – linking to issues such as trade policy and climate change financing • Strengthen capacities for advocacy through research and publications, direct funding, solidarity support, and links to training/expertise • Contribute to social movements by linking activists in the North and South and helping to raise issues in international arena • Support practical projects that enhance livelihoods and support human rights defenders

5. India

6. India: work on land and livelihoods Overall focus on social exclusion induced poverty (based on social identities such as caste, ethnicity, gender and others) • Secure livelihoods - access to and control over land (addressing the different issues faced by adivasi and dalit communities), decent work and basic needs, and countering the worst effects of both natural and man-made disasters • Economic Justice - supporting programmes addressing economic marginalisation linked to caste, class, gender and ethnicity. • Accountable Governance - equipping excluded communities to organise and claim their rights from local, state and national government and from the institutions whose decisions affect their lives • Building the movement for global justice - encourage people's movements to work for an equitable world, linking them to wider networks in India and internationally

7. Cambodia

8. Cambodia: work on land rights • Strengthening NGO networks - support for the NGO Forum Land and Livelihoods Network • Supporting people’s activism and downward accountability of NGOs and local government - action research projects • Promoting implementation of land reform legislation (e.g. through EU funded Social Land Concessions/sustainable agriculture project) • Research and publications – focus on climate change, disaster risk reduction and supporting land rights defenders • Advocating to the EU, UN etc (e.g. on impact of trade and agreements such as the EBA)

9. Solidarity in the UK

10. Solidarity in the UK: March for Justice • From 1st October 2011, a year of campaigning and fundraising by Christian Aid supporters • 9 solidarity marches (March for Justice) in towns and cities across the UK in October 2011 and 2012 to mark the start and end of the marches in India • Around 300 committed supporters will take part in 2011, and will work in their churches and communities throughout the year, to rise funds, educate, and generate support • In London, clergy and church leaders from Christian Aid’s supporting churches will join a 12 mile walk through the heart of the city, carrying the same green and white flags as the marchers in India. • Prayers of solidarity will be said at special services in cathedrals up and down the country and Christian Aid staff will be visiting churches and community groups throughout the year to share stories from the march on the ground.