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.
ILC — Read takeaways from the workshops held in Maldives, Nepal, and Bangladesh on the nexus between the climate crisis and its impact on rural women across Asia.
Strong land rights are a crucial prerequisite to the climate resilience and sustainable land management necessary to bolster food security and reach zero hunger.
Dr. Ohnmar Myo Aung, Landesa Director of Program Coordination – Myanmar Program, has been awarded the Saul A. Silverman Award from the International Organization Development Association in recognition of her support for land reform within the high-conflict context of Myanmar.
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.”
Stand for Her Land (S4HL) is working to close the gap on women’s land rights around the world. In this film from S4HL Bangladesh, we hear the story of a woman named Monoara and a father who said “Yes” to his daughter’s land rights.
Meet Christine Anderson, Landesa’s Senior Lend Tenure Specialist for the Southeast Asia Program based in Seattle. Christine began working for Landesa in 2016.
Equal inheritance rights are a path toward achieving an equitable, hopeful future; they are positively associated with higher levels of women’s entrepreneurship and can lead to economic empowerment. ALRD’s Rowshan Moni and Landesa’s Beth Roberts explain how equal inheritance rights can help us drive transformative change now.
Many challenges, such as deforestation, water management, land conflicts, labor rights, and smallholder support require collective action to address them in a meaningful way. This resource offers guidance for planners and implementers of landscape initiatives and suggests practical approaches to ensuring IPLC participation in, or ownership of, decisions in landscape initiatives at various key steps.