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ARAB CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

Member since: 2015

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
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Equal land rights for women

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Mission

ACAD aims to be a non-governmental development organization that contributes to the development of the agricultural rural sector through the building of partnerships based on complementarity, professionalism and on the involvement of target groups, including, among others, marginalized farmers, rural people, and especially women and youth.

Objectives

The objectives of ACAD include:

- building development coalitions based on complementary and specialization issues;

- empowering and applying a capacity building strategy that draws from the experiences of the Agency Tamkeen to farmers and cooperatives societies;

- encouraging and supporting the defense of the rights of individual farmers and farming groups;

- and ensuring the sustainability of ACAD, by means of improving its programs to thus serve the agricultural and rural sector.

Constituencies

Farmers and agricultural cooperatives focusing on women and youth.

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