September 8, 2014 — In this new report, the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights examines four Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) projects, in Benin, Lesotho, Mali, and Namibia to understand how each project applied gender to its design and implementation as well as how that approach impacted results.
This report, which was completed at the request of MCC, aims to help practitioners understand what concrete steps might be taken towards closing the gender gap in land projects. Read the report here >>
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