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Independent consultant working on land, natural resources and gender, with experience on key policy issues around land tenure reform, governance of tenure, large-scale land investments, gender equity in resource governance and management, women's land rights, and tenure in non-agricultural rural contexts including pastoralism and extractives. Leading Mokoro's Women's Land Tenure Security (WOLTS) Project since 2015. Country experience includes (field) Laos, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and (desk-based) Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal and Vietnam. Experience includes drafting of technical guidelines, and subsequent capacity building and training work, on gender and responsible governance of land tenure to support the implementation of the VGGTs; developing and leading gender and land training in the Mekong Region; field research on large land-based investments in agriculture in Laos and Tanzania; a mid-term evaluation of a pioneering women’s land rights and legal empowerment project in Mozambique; strategic advice on systematic land registration pilots in Nigeria; and extended work on land tenure regularisation, land disputes, and land use planning in Rwanda. Tweeting on @daleyliz
Interests: Land Tenure and Gender
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Displaying 1 - 10 of 32Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Feminist Leadership, the Land Portal, and Me
In my role as Chair of the Board of the Land Portal Foundation, I recently had the opportunity to take part in two trainings to help me develop my leadership skills. The first was a 2-day Feminist Leadership ReTreat in Mechelen, Belgium, which I took part in alongside our Managing Director, Laura Meggiolaro, our Board Secretary, Laura Cunial, and seven other women leaders from different civil society organisations in Europe.
Exercising the governance muscle - why inclusive land governance matters
Inclusive land governance at the local level allows for the community’s broader governance ‘muscle’ to be exercised in a constructive and practical way. This can reduce conflict and spark transformative social change.
48 Hours in Wales
What I learned about land rights from people who don't work in land rights
People are hungry for this knowledge
By Peter Sangeyon, Gender and Land Champion, WOLTS Project Tanzania
From 1995 to 2005 I was the village chairman, and I was a ward councillor for ten years after that. I was very pleased when the community selected me to be a WOLTS gender and land champion.
I am not afraid to speak up
Since engaging in WOLTS training, gender and land champion Sindooi is actively supporting women and widows' inheritance rights in her community.
People listen to me now
By Rosa Olokweni, Gender and Land Champion, WOLTS Project Tanzania
Before HakiMadini and WOLTS came to Mundarara, it was as though women in our village were sleeping. None of us was aware of our rights to land, many of us were mistreated by our husbands and we never spoke in meetings.
Mongolia needs fewer cows for better pastureland
Odgerel describes the changes he is making to tackle land degradation in his herding community since becoming a gender and land champion.
We now have the knowledge to control mining and save our livelihoods
P. Purevdolgor describes the impact of becoming a gender and land champion in her Mongolian herding community.