Gender Transformative Mechanism in the Context of Climate Adaptation
GTM equips rural people with the information and innovations they need to adapt to climate change.
Access to land and resources and control over them are vital components of women’s empowerment. Land is a critical physical asset, but also has a social role, defining social status and political power and structuring relationships both within and outside the household.
Yet many rural women face significant barriers to enjoying land rights, limiting their ability to fully participate in and equally benefit from profitable economic activities. Restricted access to resources and services, such as land, finance, healthcare, education, market information, agricultural inputs and technology, are compounded by broader systemic barriers. All of which are exacerbated during times conflict, food, economic and environmental crises.
The Global Gender Transformative Approaches initiative for Women’s Land Rights is a global initiative with the overarching goal to promote and strengthen women’s land rights through the integration of gender transformative approaches (GTAs) in rural development interventions in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Kyrgyzstan, Niger and Uganda.
The initiative has three main objectives:
Understanding and addressing the institutional barriers women face across different levels is essential both to achieve gender equality and to secure rights and access to land. The three-year initiative (2021-2024), is structured around two components comprising gender analysis and piloting tools, and scaling up the GTA agenda.
The initiative will develop and pilot context-appropriate gender transformative approaches to advance the recognition and protection of women’s land rights in different IFAD projects.
The initiative team works collaboratively with IFAD project personnel in each country to share, add value and learn from ongoing efforts. Approaches that are useful, appropriate and relevant are being shared to scale up women´s land rights.
Each IFAD project is unique, entailing different phases and timelines of project implementation, approaches to address gender considerations, and issues concerning rights to land and resources.
Few focus explicitly on land rights or gender equality, but land and resource tenure rights and gender are underpinning project implementation, offering a variety of entry points for intervention. The initiative uses the different types of projects in order to pull out learnings from the different contexts and promote cross learning.
Lead Global Technical Specialist, Land Tenure & Natural Resources Management
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