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Beijing+25: Realizing Gender Equality and the Empowerment of All Women and Girls
The Generation Equality Forum is coming back 25 years after the "Beijing Conference" to reignite women and girls empowerment to counter the unaddressed and new challenges.
The Generation Equality Movement has formulated six Action Coalitions that will lay out solid, ambitious and immediate 5-year actions to deliver concrete and transformative results for women and girls across generations.
The Land Portal launches third annual land data stories contest
In honor of International Open Data Day, having taken place on March 6th, we would like to invite you to submit your data story to the Land Portal. Read more below!
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International Women's Day 2021: Fighting for Women's Land Rights
This year’s theme for the International Day,"Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world", celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also aligned with the priority theme of the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, "Women in public life, equal participation in decision making."
MACRAD CHALLENGES CONSTITUTIONALITY OF SEC 10 (3) (D) OF COMMUNAL LAND ACT STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 50 OF 2021
Today 05 March 2021 Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Development (MACRAD), Livison Chikutu represented by Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) filed two court applications concurrently at Masvingo magistrate court and Masvingo High Court on behalf of the Chilonga community. The application challenges the constitutionality of section 10 (3) (d) of the communal land act chapter 20:04 and the statutory instrument 50 of 2021 communal (setting aside of Land) (Chiredzi), notice 2021.
Improving land governance for Palestinian farmers
Palestinian farmers in the West Bank mainly engage in low intensity agriculture. Despite great agricultural potential, the prospect of losing access to the land impacts negatively on the willingness of farmers to invest in sustainable agricultural intensification. Moreover, prior investments in agriculture could be under pressure as well when farmers do not have the documents to proof their tenure rights. Women in particular are often unable to claim rights to the land they are using, importantly caused by discriminatory inheritance practices.
Job Opportunity: Landesa Africa Regional Director
The Africa Region Director (ARD), Africa provides leadership for all of Landesa’s work in Africa and is part of a broader team developing and overseeing Landesa’s work globally. The ARD provides technical and managerial leadership, direction, and coordination of program staff to ensure the effective achievement of Landesa’s regional program objectives.
Job Opportunity: Chief Program Officer at Landesa
The Chief Program Officer (CPO) is the face and leader of Landesa’s programmatic work to the outside world and responsible for developing and overseeing programs, program implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and the training and mentoring of program staff, across all of Landesa’s work. The CPO will also help develop new and growing areas of work. The CPO serves as a vital member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).
Enhancing Women's Land Tenure Security and Access to Agricultural Services : 7 Cases from India
Documented as part of the World Bank study Land Policy Reform for Agricultural Transformation in India by NRMC Centre for Land Governance, this series of case studies analyzes recent interventions by government and non-government organizations to secure land tenure rights for poor farmers—especially the landless, tenants and women, resulting in increased access to agricultural land, markets, finance, and services. These seven cases span formal and customary tenure regimes from six states of India, from Kerala in the South to Manipur in North East India.