Showcasing Transformative Approaches for Women’s Land Rights

Sep 22, 2022 | Both ENDS and Land Portal Foundation
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Thursday, 22 September 2022 
7:00-8:30 AM EST | 1:00-2:30 PM CEST | 7:00-8:30 PM PST  Register now! Both ENDS and the Land Portal Foundation invite you to the third webinar in the Whose Land? Inclusive Pathways to Land Governance series, which will focus on showcasing transformative approaches for women’s land rights. These approaches facilitate the participation of women in land governance decision-making processes, but require closing the land data gender gap. 

In many countries around the world, women continue to be excluded from land ownership due to discriminatory patriarchal systems. Women makeup on average less than 20 percent of the world’s landholders, but there is no consistent national or global data on the full scope of women’s land rights or access to land. This data gap on women’s land rights negatively impacts women and girls. 

Empowering women to occupy leadership roles and to take an active part in decision making processes in land governance has demonstrated that strides can be made towards gender justice. Increasingly, gender transformative leadership approaches to securing women’s land rights focus on supporting women to assume leadership positions in accessing, controlling, managing and owning of land and land related resources. Collective mobilization helps women to identify the common structural barriers they face.

Numerous projects have demonstrated success in overcoming societal obstacles to women’s land rights. Community-based women’s groups are a proven way to build solidarity among women and to facilitate ownership over these processes and develop transformative leadership. Training and supporting women’s groups to generate their own land data to support advocacy and facilitating greater understanding of how to use data for advocacy is an important part of improved land governance.

The webinar will take place in English, French, Spanish and Bahasa.