Fair, Green and Global Alliance (FGG3) Programme Advancing fair and green trade in value chains, shifting power to people

Project site/ area of implementation

Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos and other countries in Southeast Asia

Project period

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Donor Partner

Related Documents

Project Profile-FGG3-2022 Update web.pdf

Latest Project Update

Project objectives

For this five-year project, Samdhana aims to achieve the following outcomes:

  • To increase IPLC tenure rights security in Southeast Asia (SEA) – by supporting tenure security processes, improving management and governance; conducting research and documentation on Southeast Asia IPLC tenure and the impacts of trade and investment policies for policy recommendations; supporting IPLC access to remediation in land conflicts with the State and private sector; and improved community-led natural resources management;
  • To support work for the protection and promotion of IPLC and environmental rights protected in legislative frameworks;
  • To support the creation of a network of community-based markets and local economies across SEA – by supporting community-led resource development of sustainable and ecologically-friendly livelihoods and enterprises, linking community markets and local consumers, supporting access to fair trade and value chains, support in creation of just private sector investments for local/community economy networks/ markets; and
  • To support IPLC producers and communities in SEA transform the food and agricultural systems for quality and resilient food production and local consumption.

Project components/ target outputs

  1. Capacity Development for IPLC women and youth, for Indigenous Political Structures, community leaders and local organizations; support for engaging government bodies and private sectors
  2. Small and urgent grants making for Partners’ initiatives on rights assertion and recognition, tenure security, conflict resolution, management and governance of territories, agro-ecology, community-based livelihoods and enterprises;
  3. Research and assessments on tenure policies in SEA, community enterprises, traditional agrobiodiversity systems and practices, and community markets
  4. Documentation and communication

Implementation Partners

For the project implementation, partners are local community/ indigenous peoples organizations, local or sub-regional organizations, research and policy development organizations, and IPLC networks.

For the project implementation, partners are local community/ indigenous peoples organizations, local or sub-regional organizations, research and policy development organizations, and IPLC networks.