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As carbon markets take center stage, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ land and resource rights must be secured to protect people and planet. Landesa is uniquely positioned to do just that.
As carbon markets take center stage, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ land and resource rights must be secured to protect people and planet. Landesa is uniquely positioned to do just that.
Civil society representatives across Asia and Africa met in Dhaka this October to talk about the growing impact of climate change on land-based rural people across Asia and Africa. They crafted the ‘Dhaka Declaration,’ which calls on governments to center rural people, including women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples, in climate change policy.
Civil society representatives across Asia and Africa met in Dhaka this October to talk about the growing impact of climate change on land-based rural people across Asia and Africa. They crafted the ‘Dhaka Declaration,’ which calls on governments to center rural people, including women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples, in climate change policy.
Learn more about our project to strengthen and sustain the capacity of networked, women-driven civil society organizations in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Maldives to advance local climate resilience, effective advocacy at all levels of governance, and gender-equitable land rights.
West Bengal is set to implement the Women Land Literacy (WLL) programme in all parts of the state, with a focus on depicting Bengal as the role model in creating land literacy among women through Self-Help-Group (SHG) institutions for the whole country. WLL is a joint initiative launched in 2021 by the WBSRLM, the Land & Land Reforms department, and supported by Landesa.
ILC — Read takeaways from the workshops held in Maldives, Nepal, and Bangladesh on the nexus between the climate crisis and its impact on rural women across Asia.
Strong land rights are a crucial prerequisite to the climate resilience and sustainable land management necessary to bolster food security and reach zero hunger.
Dr. Ohnmar Myo Aung, Landesa Director of Program Coordination – Myanmar Program, has been awarded the Saul A. Silverman Award from the International Organization Development Association in recognition of her support for land reform within the high-conflict context of Myanmar.
IDR ONLINE — Landesa’s Shipra Deo explains how the conversation around land rights is incomplete without giving due consideration to dignity. “How [women] use the land, whether for livelihood or survival, is closely interlinked to an individual’s existence and dignity.”