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Increasing Capacities & Spaces for Thai CSO Participation in Fishery Governance This project will support Civil Society Organisation (CSO) contributions to the development of a sustainable and ethical fishing sector in Thailand through their critical engagement with the private sector on industry regulation of their own businesses and supply chains, engaging in/with the Provincial Fishery Committees, and by related public media campaigns. Capacities of CSOs will be strengthened enabling them to engage different stakeholders with innovative means. Alternative spaces for dialogues and driving changes with private sector and consumers will be fostered to create conducive environment both for CSOs to operate and for citizens to express opinions. Monitoring of labour practices and environment protection measures will address modern slavery and labour exploitation, increase income for workers and fishers thus reducing poverty, and hold government & private companies to account. Sustainable marine resources will ensure small -scale fisherfolks' long term livelihood.  The key results planned are: [R1] Increased capacities of the Thai CSO Coalition and its members to: competently voice interests and concerns of their constituencies and local communities; effectively participate and utilize policy space at Provincial Fisheries Committees and the National Fisheries Committee; critically engage with the private sector; monitor the practices of government and private agencies; and mobilize support from urban consumers. [R2] Buy -in and understanding of key players with a focus on private sector as a base for cooperation & joint solutions that take into account communities' and fishery labours' needs with possibility for policy change. [R3] Public opinion mobilized with awareness of 5,000,000 urban consumers raised through provision of critical information on sustainable and ethical fisheries to create supportive environment for private sector practice and government policy changes, and 10,000 well -informed consumers taking supportive action.  Main activities
Enhanced  food and livelihoods security for vulnerable men and women in the Sout This project is funded by EU under the call of NSA and LA.  The project has been developed by 3 parties, Prince of Songkla University (PSU), Oxfam and communties in close working relationship with the government, and non government sectors.  The aim of this project is to create development models through project activities to ensure food and livelihood security for women and men affected by the conflict.  Women are highly prioritised as benefiaries and project actors and advocators to support peace and reconciliation.  The project is 3 years.
GRAISEA Thailand The Gender Transformative & Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South East Asia (GRAISEA) project in Thailand will adopt a 3 -pronged strategy:  1)  Fisherfolk Enterprise Development – Increase efficiency and effectiveness of 2 existing and 3 new Fisherfolk community enterprises consisting of 500 fisherfolks (women leaders, better organizational management and marketing). 2)  Blue Brand standard – sustainable seafood labeling system which is accepted as the industry standard by relevant stakeholders to guarantee safe, sustainable and socially responsible seafood products. 3)  Private Sector engagement – large corporate fishery adopting Blue Brand model based on small -scale sourcing/sustainability and improved financial access for fisherfolk enterprises.
Development and Scale up of a CC CBA Model for Food Security in Thailand Project aims to increase resilience & adaptation capacity of small -scale farmers in Northern &North -eastern Thailand by developing and scaling up of a Climate Change (CC) Adaptation Model which will be developed and tested in Chiengmai & Yasothorn. Its component is 1. Establishment of local weather forecast centres, 2. Develop a list of adaptation options, 3. Develop of a CC financial scheme covering adaptation fund and disaster insurance scheme for agri. production, 4. Community adaptation plan. The model will be scaled up nationwide through collaboration with local organizations', NGOs' network & related Government Agencies.
Supporting activities of the projects in Southern Thailand To enhance the implementation of the project in the Souther Border provinces of Thailand.
Wanita Social Enterprise in the Deep South of Thailand - Establishing "Wanita Social Enterprise" for high quality and sustainable products from the women's groups in the Deep South of Thailand. The Wanita SE should convey stories of survivals, strengths and determination to have a good life despite the atrocities facing the women themselves and their families. The Wanita's mission is to empower lives through successful and sustainable entrepreneurships in the emergency settings.  - Wanita will be a main story -platform for women's stories in the Deep South – it will be used as a campaigning tool to raise awareness and to emotionally connect the stories from the Deep South through economic empowerment with those living in the cities who would like to offer help but are not getting the full stories of what is going on the Deep South.
Partnership Project to Scale up Women Leadership Role in Market Development This project will strengthen the role of women to secure livelihoods and provide business development training to link to livelihoods grants increasing their capacity to become economic actors to support their families and by training and developing a group of core women leaders, capable of marketing control, product management and speaking out on women's need
Improving health services for children and adolescents who live with HIV & AIDS In Thailand, many ethnic minority communities – including hill tribes and migrants from neighbouring countries – lack access to life saving HIV information and services, such as the timely testing and treating of children, and the prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child. Also, increasing numbers of HIV positive children in Thailand are reaching adolescence and facing extremely challenging issues. By supporting this project, it aims to help ethnic minority communities to better protect their children from HIV, and help HIV positive teenagers to cope with the challenges of living with HIV.
Program Accountability and Sustainability 1. New 10 -year advocacy strategy of Thai Sea Watch Association, the leading NGO in fisherfolk and coastal resource justice movement. 2. Online citizen petition on Change.org platform to call for cancelling of mega infrastructure development projects destructive to fishing resources and tourism of Thailand. 3. Gendered funding capacity building workshop for WROs and FJ partner. 4. Lessons learned documentation.
Promote Sustainable Agriculture as a way for Adaptation to CC for Food Security The project aims to create public awareness and advocate policy change on CC impact and adaptation on food security with objectives 1) to document farmers and NGOs' experience in adapting to CC impact 2) to study CC impact on food security 3) to establish models for small -scale farmers in adapting to CC impact 4) to create public awareness for alliance building to support on policy change and 5) to come up with the policy option on CC adaptations of small -scale farmers. Community -based research outcome will be used for policy advocacy and public campaign, and adaptation model will be scaled up for wider implementation.
Capacity Building for the FSF for Sustainable Coastal Resource Management The project aims to build capacity of small -scale fisher folk in the southern of Thailand. The objectives of the project are a) to establish and strengthen small -scale fishers' institutions and network, b) to better conserve and manage coastal resources c) improvement of local knowledge -based management on coastal resources and communities socio -economic. The project plans to implement activities related to 7 important strategies: 1) fishers' institutions development, 2) coastal resources management, 3) fishing community economic development, 4) research and campaign, 5) educating consumer, 6) alternative energy, and 7) policy advocacy.
Strengthen Policy Advocacy for Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture This is a three -year project, which  focuses on driving agriculture policy to achieve food and income security for women and men small  farmers in Thailand. The project aims to support a national farmers' network  - Alterntative Agriculture Network, which has linkage with about 50,000 farmers to increase their capacity in practicing sustainable agriculture and gain fair income from their produce through encouraging policy makers, policy committee, and local government to create supportive policy that prioritize food security and economic development of small farmers' household. The project can link with Oxfam GB campaign on EJ and food price.
SWITCH Asia II-Consumers & Retailers Driving Sustainable Food Market in Thailand This project has the following results and their corresponding activities planned.  R1 Women and men urban consumers in the target cities and online platforms increasingly demand target food products that meet sustainable and equitable sourcing standards from retailers  Activities: 1.1 Form a campaign alliance; 1.2 Conduct audience research to direct campaign strategies; 1.3 Conduct public campaigns to raise consumers and media awareness; 1.4 Organize learning events with the Global Unequal Portion (UP) Campaign team and SWITCH Facilities in Asia.   R2 Retailers introduce more sustainable and equitable sourcing standards in food supply chains  Activities: 2.1 Conduct supply chain research; 2.2 Develop sustainability scorecard of retailers; 2.3 Online interactive platform for monitoring retailers; 2.4 Engagements with retailers; 2.5 Support retailers to improve sustainable sourcing and food labelling;   R3 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) of food producers and suppliers strengthen production capacities and sustainable sourcing  for supplying modern trade retailers and traditional wet markets  Activities: 3.1 Organize trainings to suppliers and producers; 3.2 Enable linkages and partnerships between retailers, wet markets and sustainable small producer MSMEs.   R4 Existing and new multi -stakeholder platforms (MSPs) are strengthened to influence large agribusiness' practice and government policies for Sustainable Consumption Pattern (SCP) in target food supply chains.  Activities: 4.1 Broaden participation in 2 existing MSPs and establish 1 new MSP; 4.2 Engage retailers and build consumer organizations' capacity to participate in MSPs; 4.3 Assist MSP stakeholders to develop voluntary agreements and codes of conduct for sustainable and ethical policies and practices; 4.4 Lobby and coordinate with national government agencies to improve policies and enforcement for SCP in the targeted supply chains.
Action for Land Reform II The Project Phase II (2011 -2013) will resume the momentum of community land right as a solution for landless farmers, local community land right and justice.  It has 3 main strategies: 1) empower forest and lowland communities (45) on community rights, plan and manage the local natural resources and  request community land title deeds (30); 2) public campaign and discourse with government agencies to understand community land right; 3) closely work with civil society networks and human right commission to advocate for a law to endorse community land right and for just allocation of land for the poor.  This is originally under PIP 87.
Youth Transformative Leadership Development in the Deep South of Thailand 1) Providing basic life skills for children and youths to protect themselves from drugs, and promoting new value of gender equality, which will help prevent domestic violence in the future.  2) Building Youth Transformative Leadership network in the Deep South and connecting them with other youth networks and supporting groups/organizations.  3) Communicating stories of child and youth in the Deep South to urban people to raise awareness on real situation and bring more supportive to the Deep South.
Finding approach to reduce violence against women in Deep South This project hosts R&D projects of Gender Justice (GJ) program to find means to improve effectiveness and better plan for new funding.  The track record of success is THAB29 funded by European Union (EU).  In 2018/19, it spans services to Food Justice (FJ) program for gender integration, FJ/GJ public communications interface, funding strategy  - - as such, this project is the preparation of FJ/GJ program integration into one single program. (Sept 2018 as a result of country mapping review)   The project conducts studies on gender, norms and violence against women, who are living in the armed conflict in the Deep South of Thailand and explores the best means to solve the Violence Against Women (VAW) problem. One of the testing approach is increasing transformative leadership of local women networks to work with the religious institutions.   The in -depth analysis at the community level in 2015/16 reveals some important challenges to GJ outcomes: 1) lack of credential VAW data at the provincial level; 2) religious and community attitudes unfavourable to women facing domestic violence; 3) lack of competency of religious and public institutions. With the constraint of budget, the project will maximise the resource to focus on developing a strong proposal by 1) research on the scope and scale of violence against women in Deep South and attitudes of duty bearers; 2) a pilot engagement with the Pattani Provincial Office of Islamic Committee to improve services for women; and 3) building women's transformative leadership in Deep South and Fisherfolk Enterprise           In Yr15/16 The project explores gender roles, norms and women's concerns living in the conflict violence using the participatory approach. The key questions are 1) What are the disparities between women and men in your context that are barriers to self fulfilment? The topics of exploration will include demography, space for learning and self development, access to services and self perception. 2) What are women
Partnership project to scale up women leadership&market devl in Deep South Y2014 The project will build a group of well -trained local women will be a business mentors in driving forward occupational groups of the affected women, providing ongoing business advice to improve business plan for gradual progress of production and sale. The project also pioneers 2 poverty reduction models for poor coastal communities in which women community members play an active role contributing to more sustainable livelihood and increased family income through the promotion of responsible fisheries and agriculture.
Women networks reducing VAW in the Deep South of Thailand The project aims to reduced Violence Against Women (VAW) through improved accountability of governmental and religious institutions. Both governmental and religious institutions are important duty bearers of VAW reduction in Deep South but do not attempt to work with each other. The project will establish a healthy relationship between them, with Women Networks (WNs) as change agents, to reform their processes so that more Muslim women can access protection services of governmental organizations and religious organizations provide protection services that uphold women's rights and reduce the acceptance of VAW in communities leading to reduced VAW in the longer term.
Technical Assistance for Budget and Financial Accountability - Argentina The Budget and Financial Accountability Team has partnered with the Argentine Ministry of Hacienda through an intermittent technical assistance project to develop the next generation of open budget and fiscal transparency tools. The Budget and Financial Accountability Team will provide ongoing technical assistance to the Argentine MOH functional and technical team in its efforts to provide detailed government financial and non-financial data to the public via its current web sites.
Technical Assistance for Revenue Administration and Revenue Policy - Argentina Assistance to La Administracin Federal de Ingresos Pblicos (AFIP) will develop the functions of its Employee Integrity Unit and improve its capacity for internal audit and investigations, with the aim of rooting out corruption in revenue administration. The engagement emphasizes anticorruption measures involving expertise in inspector general functions. Specific corruption deterrent measures include training investigators and auditors in handling internal controls, auditing IT systems security of confidential taxpayer information (and providing recommendations for system upgrades), and creating whistleblower support pathways. In 2020, the project will expand to support AFIP audit capacity, through implementation of a Quality Review Staff (Q.R.S.) in the general audit unit, and through advancement of the international auditor corps' handling of transfer pricing cases.
Technical Assistance for Government Debt & Infrastructure Finance - Argentina This project will provide advice to help strengthen the institutional capacity of Argentinas newly created Public Private Partnership (PPP) Unit, which resides in the Ministry of Finance. The potential pipeline of PPP projects in Argentina is very large, with an initial pipeline of 100+ projects with investment of $50+ billion, reflecting a backlog of infrastructure needs accumulated over more than ten years. Objectives include: Training and professional development of staff; assist staff in writing policies, guidelines and manuals for PPP structuring in risk allocation, standards for evaluation and procurement; develop guidelines for best practices; and support government institutions at various levels that have limited experience with PPPs.
Technical Assistance for Government Debt & Infrastructure Finance - Argentina The goal of this project is to support increased private investment in infrastructure in Argentina, which is key to achieving and sustaining domestic economic growth, by fostering a more transparent, attractive investment environment. Project activities will focus on: 1) clarifying the process for structuring infrastructure projects, including from a regulatory perspective and for individual projects and 2) assisting contracting agencies during project planning and bidding, including building staff capacity to manage and oversee infrastructure project development and execution.
Technical Assistance for Banking and Financial Services - Argentina The advisor is providing technical assistance to the Superintendencia de Seguros de la Nacion (SSN) in the area of insurance supervision. The advisor is expected to PCS to Buenos Aires at end of April or early May 2018.
Technical Assistance for Economic Crimes - Argentina The goal of this project is to improve the Government of Argentina's (GoA's) ability to identify, detect and prosecute money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes. Project activities will focus on (1) improving the FIU's ability to conduct core functions and act as the interagency coordinators for AML/CFT for the GoA; (2) enhancing risk-based AML/CFT supervision of the financial and non-financial sectors; and (3) improving financial investigative and prosecutorial authorities' ability to prioritize and pursue financial investigations and prosecutions, including as relates to asset forfeiture.
Technical Assistance for Revenue Policy and Administration - Argentina Technical Assistance for Revenue Policy and Administration - Argentina
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Technical Assistance for Economic Crimes -Argentina Assist the Government of Argentina (GoA) stakeholders in the development of their anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime, to include supporting the effectiveness of the financial intelligence unit; enhancing risk-based AML/CFT supervision of the financial system; and improving money laundering case development.
Technical Assistance for Banking & Financial Services - Argentina The advisor is providing technical assistance to the Superintendencia de Seguros de la Nacion (SSN) in the area of insurance supervision. The advisor is expected to PCS to Buenos Aires at end of April or early May 2018.
Health Accountability Project The health accountability project seeks to increase the accessibility of essential drugs and medicines within the public health facilities in Elgeyo Marakwet County by promoting citizen and public health stakeholders engagement and adoption of ICT systems that will enhance the availability of drugs and medicines.
Shule Yangu Alliance Campaign The ShuleYangu (My School) Alliance Campaign was initiated in 2015 as a response to the growing vulnerabilities public schools face from land grabbing and encroachment. The objective of this project is to accelerate the protection of schools against illegal land-grabs, support the government to issue title deeds to public schools, and support communities to own their schools
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IR7.1: CAPACITY OF MOE STRENGTHENED TO R IR7.1: Capacity of MoE strengthened to revise educational curricula in line with emerging needs including life skills, adolescent
reproductive sexual health, multi grade teaching, and child friendly schools
CHILDREN AND CAREGIVERS HAVE INCREASED CAPACITIES TO PREVENT AND RESPOND TO VAC Output 3.3: Children, adolescents, caregivers, communities and service providers have increased capacity to prevent, recognize,
and respond to violence against children
WASH SERVICES IN COMMUNITIES & INSTITUTIONS Output 1.3: By 2023, Government and partners have improved capacity to strengthen Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services in communities and institutions
OUTPUT 4.3 : WOMEN & YOUTH LED GROUP Output 4.3: Women and youth have increased opportunities to participate in political leadership as well as in planning, decision-
making, monitoring and implementation [of policies and programmes at national and local levels.
IR10.1: ENHANCED NATIONAL CAPACITY IN AW IR10.1: Enhanced national capacity in awareness raising, implementation
and reporting of ratified international conventions and treaties.
PREVENT & RESPOND TO VIOLENCE, EXPLOITATION & HARMFUL SOCIAL NORMS AND PRACTICES Output 3:   Parents, caregivers, children, including adolescents, and their communities are better informed, equipped and supported
to prevent and respond to violence, exploitation and harmful social norms and practices.