In Dar es Salaam, Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global legal pro bono service convened leading women’s rights organizations, including Landesa, to discuss how legal pro bono can strengthen their work on gender equality.
In Dar es Salaam, Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global legal pro bono service convened leading women’s rights organizations, including Landesa, to discuss how legal pro bono can strengthen their work on gender equality.
The LandAssess Tool is a risk assessment and management framework. It provides a clear and simple set of checklists that generate a report to help companies assess and manage how they respect land rights.
The gender gap in land manifests itself in a stark reality – around the world, less than 15% of all landholders are women, despite the fact that women comprise 43% of the agricultural workforce in the developing world.
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In a statement to Engineering News, Illovo Sugar Africa recounts their collaboration with Landesa and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to help the company implement its land rights policies and commitments.
The New Dawn wrote about a two-day workshop that Landesa hosted in Monrovia, Liberia on Land Rights for Sustainable Development under the theme “Good Practices on Land Regulations.”
Land has always been an essential element of business for Illovo Sugar, Africa’s largest producer of sugarcane. But their perspective on land – and how to address land issues across their operations in six sub-Saharan African countries – has shifted over time, thanks in part to Illovo’s participation in Landesa’s Commitment to Practice (C2P) Project.
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Landesa’s Tanzania Program Director, Dr. Monica Mhoja, has been awarded a Bertha Foundation Fellowship to investigate the nexus between property, profit and politics contributing to land and housing injustice.
This blog originally appeared on Place. By Monica Mhoja Women around the world …
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