An Equal Stake in the Soil: Building Women’s Land Rights from the Ground Up

Project Duration: August 1, 2021 – July 31, 2025

Project Partners:

Lead Organization: Landesa

Partner Organizations: International Land Coalition (ILC), Center for Research and Popular Education (CINEP), and Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD)

Project Goal: To strengthen and sustain the capacity of networked, women-driven CSOs in Bangladesh and Colombia to create the enabling environment needed to recognize and promote women’s land rights for women’s economic empowerment (WEE).

Project Objective: 

Objective 1:Generate demand and build political will for stronger Women’s Land Rights (WLR)tenure and governance.

Objective 2:Increase social recognition by the public at large of the legitimacy and importance of WLR, measurablyreducing social and cultural barriers to WLR.

Objective 3:Deepen local CSOs’ experience and learning in innovative approaches to directly address social norms and legal literacy around WLR to spur local implementation of and accountability for WLR.