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Women’s Land and Property Rights
With the Women’s Land and Property Rights program (WLPR), we aim to promote equitable land rights by strengthening women’s tenure security and decision-making. We tackle discriminatory norms that hinder women and girls from owning or controlling land and productive resources.
About the Women’s Land and Property Rights
Objective: To contribute to increased land tenure security for women and children through promotion of gender transformative land governance processes.
At UCOBAC, we recognize that secure land and property rights are fundamental to achieving gender equality, improving livelihoods and strengthening community resilience. Land is not only a source of food and income but also a vital asset for social identity, economic empowerment, and long term security especially for women and children.
Through our Women’s Land and Property Rights Programme, we aim to contribute to increased land tenure security for women and children by promoting gender transformative land governance processes.
Our work focuses on challenging the discriminatory norms, practices, and policies that limit women’s access, ownership, and control over land. We work in both rural and peri urban communities where women are often most affected by land injustice, particularly in cases of widowhood, divorce, inheritance disputes and displacement.
UCOBAC engages with local leaders, cultural institutions, government authorities, and grassroots women to raise awareness of land rights, strengthen legal literacy and build capacity for equitable land governance. We support women to claim and defend their rights through mediation, legal aid referrals and advocacy at local and national levels. We also facilitate land documentation and registration processes to formalize land ownership, reduce conflict, and increase tenure security. Our interventions are designed to be participatory and inclusive, ensuring that community voices especially those of women are at the center of land governance processes.
WLPR Program interventions
- Enhance Legal literacy on laws, polices and legal frameworks on land
- Land Documentation and Registration: Facilitating the formalization of land rights through support in acquiring land titles, certificates, and other legal documentation for women and vulnerable households.
- Gender Responsive Land Governance: Promoting inclusive, accountable decision-making structures that prioritize the rights and needs of women and children.
- Grounding Community Participation: Ensuring communities especially women are meaningfully engaged in land governance planning, implementation, and monitoring.
- Cultural and Social Norm Change: Working with cultural and religious leaders to transform discriminatory practices around land inheritance and ownership.
- Advocacy and Policy Influence: Engaging in multi-level advocacy to influence legal and policy reforms that protect and promote women’s land and property rights.
- Capacity Building: Strengthening the skills and knowledge of community-based organizations, local councils, and grassroots women leaders to support and sustain land rights initiatives.
WLPR Projects
Child Development Project
The Child Development Project (CDP) aims at unleashing the potential of children and providing an enabling environment at home, school and their communities. The project constitutes five major sectors including health, education, livelihoods, community and organizational development, and food security and nutrition.