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GIRLS’ GLOBE — In this conversation with Girls’ Globe, Dr. Monica Mhoja shares examples of how women in Tanzania are investing in smart agriculture and more land. She speaks about how Stand for Her Land is organizing across countries and at the grassroots level to advocate and create opportunities for change.
IPP MEDIA — Land Tenure Specialist Masalu Luhula explains how Landesa helped design the process and coordinate the land transfer in a case of responsible land based investment, the “first of its kind in Tanzania where the investor decides to hand over land that they don’t use so that communities can make good use of it.”
Read reflections from our Landesa Africa team that attended the Women Deliver 2023 conference in Kigali, Rwanda.
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.
Meet Godfrey Massay, Landesa’s Tanzania Program Director based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Godfrey began working for Landesa in 2017 as Landesa’s first on-the-ground employee in Africa.
Monica Magoke-Mhoja was interviewed about Landesa’s partnership with Sheria Kiganjani to create a mobile application that provides women living in remote areas with legal advice about their land rights and information on how to seek redress if these rights are violated. Over 20 community paralegals are now registered to use the Women and Land segment, 400 women have already been provided legal assistance, while 50 widows got their land rights formalized.
Landesa’s Community Smart Consultation and Consent (CSCC) project was profiled by IPP Media. The 5-year project seeks to survey land and issue customary certificates as a way of accelerating land ownership among men, women and other groups in the community.
Dr. Monica Mhoja joins award-winning poet and activist Hellen Bulugu to give voice to the millions of women who are calling out for the one thing they need most: a piece of land of their own.
Landesa’s land use planning work, in collaboration with Pelum Tanzania and the Government of Tanzania, is profiled in an article about addressing land conflicts between farmers and herders in Ifakara and Kilosa districts.
Landesa Tanzania Program Director Godfrey Massay was interviewed for an International Women’s Day article on global action for advancing and recognizing women in the quest for gender equality in land ownership.