In 2010, Kenya adopted a new Constitution that guarantees equal rights for women and men and recognizes the role of traditional justice actors in resolving disputes, to the extent those actors comply with the principles enshrined in the Constitution. The following year Landesa designed and piloted the USAID-supported project, Enhancing Customary Justice Systems in the Mau Forest, Kenya, also known as the Kenya Justice Project (KJP).
The primary objective of the Justice Project was to pilot an approach for improving women’s access to justice related to land rights by building the capacity of customary justice actors, particularly traditional elders, to support and enforce women’s land rights, consistent with the Constitution.
In collaboration with in-country stakeholders, identify and address key land-related challenges with the aim of enhancing the tenure security of economically disadvantaged rural women and men in Liberia.
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Collaborate with the Government of Tanzania and civil society to develop and implement policy legislative and regularly frameworks that strengthen the land rights of rural women and men.
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