• Contact: Miriam Montero Salinas
  • Address: Cl O Pazo, 1 5. Mourente, Pontevedra. E-36164, Spain
  • Phone: +34 619663867
  • Email: hola@icomunales.org
  • Web: www.icomunales.org
  • Members:
    ICOMUNALES

ICOMUNALES

Iniciativa Comunales

Member since: 2018

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

Recognize and protect the diverse tenure and production systems upon which people’s livelihoods depend, including the communal and customary tenure systems of smallholders, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folks, and holders of overlapping, shifting and periodic rights to land and other natural resources, even when these are not recognized by law, and whilst also acknowledging that the well-being of resource-users may be affected by changes beyond the boundaries of the land to which they have tenure rights.
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Diverse Tenure Systems

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

Mission

Iniciativa Comunales wants to encourage support for communities and their diversity of governance systems, as well as to promote recognition of their important social, economic and environmental work. 

Objectives

The objective of the organisation is to promote among the communities the good governance and the improvement of the social, economic and environmental results of the communal ones. At a general level, it seeks the protection and recognition of this collective patrimony based on the principles of inalienability, indivisibility, imperceptibility and unattainability. The organisation also strives to ensure that written and customary law of the communities are respected, fully legally recognized, and to secure communities' full legal capacity in the defense and management of its resources and the adequate participation of its governing bodies in making decisions that affect this heritage.

Constituencies

iComunales is an association at the national level, formed by communities that govern water, land, property and rights in a communal way. Other key members of the association are NGOs, universities, companies and other entities, as well as individuals. Its common objective is to attain the support and recognition of these communal governance systems, with particular attention to promoting their social, environmental and economic values.

  • Contact: Miriam Montero Salinas
  • Address: Cl O Pazo, 1 5. Mourente, Pontevedra. E-36164, Spain
  • Phone: +34 619663867
  • Email: hola@icomunales.org
  • Web: www.icomunales.org
  • Members:
    ICOMUNALES
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