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Independent consultant working on land, natural resources and gender, with experience on key policy issues around land tenure reform, governance of tenure, large-scale land investments, gender equity in resource governance and management, women's land rights, and tenure in non-agricultural rural contexts including pastoralism and extractives. Leading Mokoro's Women's Land Tenure Security (WOLTS) Project since 2015. Country experience includes (field) Laos, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and (desk-based) Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal and Vietnam. Experience includes drafting of technical guidelines, and subsequent capacity building and training work, on gender and responsible governance of land tenure to support the implementation of the VGGTs; developing and leading gender and land training in the Mekong Region; field research on large land-based investments in agriculture in Laos and Tanzania; a mid-term evaluation of a pioneering women’s land rights and legal empowerment project in Mozambique; strategic advice on systematic land registration pilots in Nigeria; and extended work on land tenure regularisation, land disputes, and land use planning in Rwanda. Tweeting on @daleyliz
Interests: Land Tenure and Gender
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Confident Gender and Land Champions - New WOLTS Paper Published
Gender and land champions can help - seven years of WOLTS in Tanzania
Many rural communities in Tanzania share similar challenges from mining companies and investors. I have seen first-hand how men and women gender and land champions can help.
WOLTS Mongolia success stories - new blog and a national workshop
Mokoro are delighted to publish a new blog from WOLTS Mongolia team member, B. Munkhtuvshin. “Protesting herders to get government support to stop harmful mining operations” is the story of recent demonstrations by nomadic pastoralists opposed to investments in the mining sector that have infringed on their community’s land rights.
Protesting herders to get government support to stop harmful mining operations
Like many countries, Mongolia has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and its government has been accelerating investments in the mining sector to help the economy. However, this has led to protests by local communities concerned about their land rights, and about their health. Among them is the community of Dalanjargalan, where the WOLTS project has been working with local champions who have been trained in land law, gender issues and participatory decision-making.
A sustainable future needs women and men working together for change
It’s that time of year again! March means International Women’s Day and the annual meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. It’s not surprising, after COP26 in Glasgow, that this year’s CSW66 links gender equality with climate change. The official theme is ‘achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.’
"It will be fun to develop land-use planning, if we do it together"
“It will be fun to develop land-use planning, if we do it together.” This was a comment from one of the local land managers during 30 online workshops run by PCC to introduce new Gender Guidelines for local land management in Mongolia.
2021 - The Year that WOLTS!
After adapting to challenges of COVID-19, 2021 turned into a very busy and exciting year for the global WOLTS team.
To secure equal rights to land, bring men and women together
There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.