Landesa Rural Development Institute
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Mission Statement
Landesa champions and works to secure land rights for millions of the world’s poorest, mostly rural women and men, to provide opportunity and promote social justice. We envision a world free of poverty. We are committed to a future in which all women and men who depend on land for their livelihoods have secure, legal land rights – one of the most powerful tools for lifting oneself, one’s family and one’s community out of poverty.
About This Cause
Three-quarters of the world’s poorest people live in rural areas where land is a key asset. Of those people, more than a billion lack legal rights over the land they use to survive, causing entrenched poverty cycles to persist over generations. Landesa works to advance durable land rights to bring transformational changes on a large scale. Secure land rights help create a stable foundation for other important development work – like literacy, clean water, and nutrition – to take hold for generations. Landesa works at scale to create opportunities for the world's poorest to lift themselves out of poverty. We do this by working side by side with governments and other organizations to strengthen land rights for the landless poor - those 400 million women and 250 million men who lack either access to land or a secure stake in the land they farm. We are committed to achieving these outcomes through systemic change and an emphasis on gender equality. Stand For Her Land Campaign Landesa serves as the Global Secretariat of the Stand For Her Land Campaign – a new global, civil society-based collaborative on women’s land rights that aims to close the gap between laws and practice so that millions of women can realize their rights in their daily lives. Bringing together women, civil society leaders, existing and emerging coalitions, development organizations, and allies from across sectors - through the establishment of country coalitions - the primary objective of the Stand For Her Land Campaign is to increase awareness and understanding globally of women’s land rights, and addresses discriminatory social norms and practices to drive real change on the ground.