​​LJP-RDC

​​Ligue des Jeunes Paysans de la RDC​

Member since: 2024

Working towards these commitments

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

Enable the role of local land users in territorial and ecosystem management, recognizing that sustainable development and the stewardship of ecosystems are best achieved through participatory decision-making and management at the territorial-level, empowering local land users and their communities with the authority, means and incentives to carry out this responsibility.
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Locally-managed ecosystems

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

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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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.
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Effective actions against land grabbing

Mission

​​La LJP-RDC a pour mission d’atteindre le bien-être social des jeunes paysans et également promouvoir la culture congolaise.​

Objectives

​​Promouvoir une meilleure participation des jeunes hommes et femmes paysannes au dialogue politique, économique, social, environnementale et culturel et ce, tant au niveau national qu’international ;

​Renforcer les capacités des jeunes paysans en matière de souveraineté alimentaire, l’agro écologie, la lutte contre les injustices sociales, les droits des jeunes hommes et femmes paysannes et rurales, la capacitation, représentativité ainsi que dans le développement des services économiques et la mise en marché ;

​Favoriser les échanges d’expériences et encourager la solidarité entre paysannes ;

​Participer au Forum, Conférence à tous les niveaux ;

​Encourager la culture entrepreneuriale au sein de l’organisation ;

​Contribuer à la défense des droits des jeunes hommes et femmes paysannes ainsi qu’autochtones.​

Constituencies

La LJP-RDC est une organisation paysanne des jeunes travaillant dans 6 provinces et direct avec les jeunes agriculteurs, éleveurs, Riziculteurs, Travailleurs dans le milieu rural, travaillant dans le climat et environnement, jeunes entrepreneurs agricoles, les jeunes défenseurs des droits humains, les jeunes travaillant dans l’éducation à la citoyenneté etc…