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Dear colleagues,
Today the world celebrates International Women’s Day. The data and evidence of the importance of women’s secure tenure rights to land is overwhelming: even though women contribute to almost half of all agricultural production worldwide, a mere 15% of women has legal rights to the land they work on. Although great progress has been made in the global recognition of the importance of women’s land rights, a lot has to be done in order to achieve gender equity in access to land in practice.
For LAND-at-scale, gender has been an important cross-cutting theme the programme’s inception. Through our country projects, we aim to be gender transformative and - at the very least - gender aware. But what does this mean in practice? How does LAND-at-scale build on the incredibly rich history of research and experiences to secure land rights for women? In this newsletter, our project partners share the approaches and strategies in LAND-at-scale countries, and we will share our strategy at program level. Today, our usual newsletter is completely devoted to the gender theme!
If you have any questions or remarks about LAND-at-scale, please do not hesitate to reach out to us through landatscale@rvo.nl.
Warm regards,
The LAND-at-scale team |
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| Scaling up gender-sensitive approaches in Burundi |
| As observed in many countries, women’s access to land in Burundi is hampered by customary practices. ZOA, VNG and MiPAREC are scaling up a gender-sensitive approach to strengthening women’s rights to land, an approach that has been proven much more successful than many other approaches had in the past. |
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| Gender Transformative Approaches in the LAND-at-scale programme |
| From the inception of the LAND-at-scale programme, gender has been identified as a main cross-cutting theme in the portfolio. What does this mean in practice? We have interviewed the programme’s focal point for gender, Maaike van den Berg, to tell us more about LAND-at-scale’s gender strategy at programme level. |
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| Knowledge Management Insight |
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| Tools & Publications |
| A few examples of useful tools to advance women’s land rights used in the LAND-at-scale portfolio. |
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| ILC Toolkit: Equal Rights for Women |
| This toolkit gathers together information on ten tools successfully used by twelve members of the International Land Coalition (ILC) to ensure gender justice in relation to land by taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take an equal part in decision-making. |
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| Gender Evaluation Criteria |
| The gender evaluation criteria framework explores how to judge whether a land tool is sufficiently gender-responsive, to identify where more work needs to be done, and possible entry-points to make a tool equally beneficial to women and men. The tool was developed in 2016 by the Global Land Tool Network and still a useful tool, used in LAND-at-scale programme design as well. The tool is available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. |
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| Land Portal’s Gender & Land Issue Portfolio |
| There is a wealth of knowledge and experiences when it comes to strengthening women’s land rights and achieving gender equity in access to land. What are the key issues, publications, events and organizations working on the topic? If you’re looking for an introduction to the issue, Land Portal’s Gender & Land Issue portfolio is a great place to start. |
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| RVO’s Gender Guide |
| Gender is not only a priority theme for the LAND-at-scale programme: it is a key priority for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the entire Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency (RVO). RVO’s strategy for gender is to never support gender-blind activities, to always be gender aware and, whenever possible, be gender transformative. |
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Contact:
Netherlands
Enterprise Agency
Prinses Beatrixlaan 2
2595 AL The Hague
The Netherlands |
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