Meet the women, men, and families around the world who have benefited from access to stronger land rights.
Consolata Kibiki, a resident of Ikongosi Juu Village in Tanzania’s Mufindi District, shares what many women around the globe have experienced for decades, due to socio-cultural norms that discriminate against women’s access, ownership, and control of productive resources like land.
On April 28, Landesa organized the launch of land formalization for Togba Nyakon Clan. This marked an important step forward on a journey begun in 2018, when Liberia adopted the national Land Rights Act, granting land rights for rural communities for the first time in the history of the West African nation.
To help widows like Imelda, Landesa launched an innovative, gender-responsive land use planning process. The participatory program increased the awareness of women like Imelda regarding their land rights, helping to accelerate gender equality and women’s empowerment.
After years of being denied the farmland she had inherited from her father, Jebbeh participated in a USAID and Landesa program that distributed Amplio Talking Books, simple hand-held audio players with messages in local languages that raise awareness of land rights. Through this program, Jebbeh gained the knowledge and confidence to assert her rights, and her brothers finally acknowledged her inheritance.
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