• Address: 39 Boulevard du 30 Juin, Itimbiri Building, 3rd Level at Premise (Ref .: Opposite VODACOM), Gombe Commune, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

CODELT

Conseil pour la Défense Environnementale par la Légalité et la Tracabilité

2009

Member since

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Platforms

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 equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
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Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

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

Respect and protect the inherent land and territorial rights of indigenous peoples, as set out in ILO Convention 169 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including by recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge and cultures contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment".
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Secure territorial rights for Indigenous Peoples

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

CODELT is a non-governmental organization that works on natural resources governance and the protection of communities rights, with a focus on legal, monitoring and participatory issues. More particularly, they are committed to independent and impartial expertise and initiatives related to the legality, traceability and participation in the governance of natural resources (land, forests and mines) and finances. CODELTalso works for the rights of local communities.

Objectives

Promote the concepts of equality and of participation in the management of natural resources by dint of rendering products oriented towards reflection and action.

Constituencies

Local communities, researchers, and policy-makers.

  • Address: 39 Boulevard du 30 Juin, Itimbiri Building, 3rd Level at Premise (Ref .: Opposite VODACOM), Gombe Commune, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo