Meet Jen Brown, Landesa’s Sr. Land Tenure Specialist based in Seattle, Washington. Jen started working for Landesa in 1998 and re-joined our team in 2018.
Learn more about Our Work in India.
Meet Jen Brown, Landesa’s Sr. Land Tenure Specialist based in Seattle, Washington. Jen started working for Landesa in 1998 and re-joined our team in 2018.
Global WA — Landesa’s Ayman Soliman explains that in order to close the gap on women’s land rights, we must challenge discriminatory social norms, empower grassroots women to lead, and finance solutions from the ground up.
We are pleased to share Landesa’s 2023 Annual Report with you. At Landesa, we are honored to have assisted 720 million people in just the past five years on a path toward equitable and secure land rights. These rights lay the groundwork for women advocating for gender justice, Indigenous Peoples protecting their forests and cultures, and coastal communities mitigating and adapting to climate change. Secure land rights are an assurance for the future—offering peace of mind and the ability to use your land to shape your destiny. With strong rights to your land, you can fill in the blank with what land means to you.
Meet Shyamal Kumar Jana, Landesa’s Program Manager based in Kolkata, India. Shyamal began working for Landesa in 2011.
West Bengal is set to implement the Women Land Literacy (WLL) programme in all parts of the state, with a focus on depicting Bengal as the role model in creating land literacy among women through Self-Help-Group (SHG) institutions for the whole country. WLL is a joint initiative launched in 2021 by the WBSRLM, the Land & Land Reforms department, and supported by Landesa.
IDR ONLINE — Landesa’s Shipra Deo explains how the conversation around land rights is incomplete without giving due consideration to dignity. “How [women] use the land, whether for livelihood or survival, is closely interlinked to an individual’s existence and dignity.”
Learn more about our work in India to train women in the necessary technical skills to provide land records updation services for other women and families in their community. The Sangha Facilitation Centers program embodies this year’s International Women’s Day theme, DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.
Meet Shipra Deo, Landesa’s Director – Women and Land based in Uttar Pradesh, India. Shipra began working for Landesa in 2015.
Shipra Deo was interviewed by Vice News for their article about violence and land grabbing in India, and the victims’ complicated fight for justice.
We are pleased to share our 2022 Annual Report with you. This year’s report provides a look back at a watershed year for Landesa – and a look ahead to what’s on the horizon.