• Contact: Moses Nkhana
  • Address: Tovwirane House Mzimba Old Hospital Mzimba Malawi
  • Email: y.associatiation@yahoo.com
  • Members:
    MYO

MYO

Mzimba Youth Organisation

Member since: 2021

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.
1

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.
2

Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

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.
3

Diverse Tenure 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.
4

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".
5

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
8

Transparent and accessible information

Prevent and remedy land grabbing, respecting traditional land use rights and local livelihoods, and ensuring that all large-scale initiatives that involve the use of land, water and other natural resources comply with human rights and environmental obligations and are based on: the free, prior and informed consent of existing land users; a thorough assessment of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts with respect to both women and men; democratic planning and independent oversight; and transparent contracts that respect labour rights, comply with social and fiscal obligations and are specific and binding on the sharing of responsibilities and benefits. Where adverse impacts on human rights and legitimate tenure rights have occurred, concerned actors should provide for, and cooperate in, impartial and competent mechanisms to provide remedy, including through land restitution and compensation.
9

Effective actions against land grabbing

Respect and protect the civil and political rights of human rights defenders working on land issues, combat the stigmatization and criminalisation of peaceful protest and land rights activism, and end impunity for human rights violations, including harassment, threats, violence and political imprisonment
10

Protected land rights defenders

Mission

Mzimba Youth Organisation aims at contributing to the education of the Child, young people, women empowerment and Gender equality through a value system based, to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society

Objectives

1. To protect the rights of the youth and women so that they become productive citizen of their societies.
2. To advoccate for affordable, acceptable and available sexual Reproductive Health ser-vices
3. To promote trasparenct and accountability in the management of local revenues by the duty bearers in Malawi
4. To provide capacity building through training and professional opportunities to youth and women professionals in agriculture and natural resource management sectors to be-come effective “change agents” for gender equality.
5. To promote rule of law in Malawi
6. To advocate for the inclusion of women in the land reform process through the Kili-manjaro initiative
7. To create mediums for women’s and youth voices to be heard within district, National and international agencies and global processes concerned with food security, natural resource management, and climate change.
8. To strengthening co-ordination and collaboration of member organisations engaged in land and natural resources management through networking and dissemination of in-formation.
9. To advocate for the adoption and implementation of pro-poor and equitable land and natural resources policies, legislation, and decision-making processes that enhance sus-tainable livelihoods and utilization of land and natural resources including inclussive decision making.

Constituencies

Mzimba Youth Organisation carryies out its interventions in areas of children,Youth and Women

  • Contact: Moses Nkhana
  • Address: Tovwirane House Mzimba Old Hospital Mzimba Malawi
  • Email: y.associatiation@yahoo.com
  • Members:
    MYO
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