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This project aims to consolidate the progressive democratizing elements of land and natural resources legislation and make more effective use of existing legal and judicial structures, thus contributing directly to good governance and decentralization in Mozambique, the alleviation of poverty, and the promotion of an equitable and sustainable development process.

Immediate objectives

• Develop and implement a training package for local community leaders and members and other individuals involved in resource access and use, enhancing awareness of their rights, and how to use and defend these rights either through constructive engagement with State and other interests seeking to use local resources, or when necessary, by recourse to legal and judicial institutions;

• Strengthen the practical impact of district level judges and prosecutors with training to enhance their understanding of the three natural resources laws and other development-related laws;

• Training local governments, sector officers and 'para-legals' in the basic principles of the three natural resources and other development-related laws, the application of these underlying principles in practical development situations, and mediation and arbitration skills that can promote secure and constructive agreements between local people and new investors;

• Improve arbitration and mediation mechanisms used in Mozambique, and promote understanding on how to deal with new 'diffuse' rights created through the new natural resources legislation, and the role of the Public Ministry in upholding those rights and the rule of law generally;

• Establish a monitoring and evaluation system to systematically assess the impact of the project training components, and the performance of the judiciary, Public Ministry and other relevant actors, with results feeding back into improved project training and materials development, and the CFJJ core training program;

• Support and strengthen the research and M&E capacity of the CFJJ.

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