Enhancing women’s land rights through legal empowerment

1. Enhancing women’s land rights through legal empowerment Lessons learned from community-based activities

2. Why women’s land rights? “If women had the same access to productive resources as men, they would increase yields on their farms by 20-30 percent. This could raise total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5-4 percent, which could in turn reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12-17 percent” (FAO, 2011: 5)

3. Challenges and priorities in advancing women’s land rights

4. Why legal empowerment? VGGT Principles of Implementation The use of law to specificallystrengthen the disadvantaged (IDLO, 2010)

5. Community-based activities promoting the legal empowerment of rural women • Objective and features • Document innovative ways of promoting women’s land rights and facilitate knowledge sharing and mutual learning; • Piloting activities/short timeframe/small budget • Community-based activities • Partners

6. CINEP, Colombia, Women’s empowerment to exercise their land rights in the Cauca Valley

7. CINEP, Colombia, Women’s empowerment to exercise their land rights in the Cauca Valley OXFAM GB, Pakistan, Promoting women’s property rights and ownership in Pakistan

8. CINEP, Colombia, Women’s empowerment to exercise their land rights in the Cauca Valley SARRA, India, Women’s empowerment in tribal communities

9. CINEP, Colombia, Women’s empowerment to exercise their land rights in the Cauca Valley SWADHINA, India, Creating awareness to bring land rights to grassroots women

10. CINEP, Colombia, Women’s empowerment to exercise their land rights in the Cauca Valley UEFA, DR Congo, Sensitise authorities and communities on the land rights of pygmy women

11. Lessons learned

12. Opportunities

13. Thank you! l.miggiano@landcoalition.org If you want to know more on the ILC’s Women’s Land Rights Initiative, please visit www.landcoalition.org