Cher membre/partenaire,
La campagne Stand for Her Land (S4HL), en collaboration avec FEMNET, Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-A) et Gender Is My Agenda Campaign (GIMAC Network), vous invite cordialement à participer à un webinaire de discussion de haut niveau aujourd’hui, 7 juillet 2022 de 11h00 à 13h00 EAT.
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Concept – Sécuriser les droits fonciers des femmes lors de la session de JUILLET de l’UA en Zambie
Background
Progressive and comprehensive land rights help women break the cycle of poverty and improve not only their own lives, but those of their families and communities. The benefits of women’s land rights multiply in crucial ways both at home and in communities — when women have secure rights to land, spending on children’s education, land production and household nutrition increase. Thus, women’s
land rights are key to addressing the deeply gendered issues of climate change, food security,
and global health.
When a woman holds secure rights to her land, power dynamics shift. Her dignity, household decision-
making, and economic freedom increase. This reality aligns well with the African Union Theme of 2022
as approved in the 35 Ordinary Session of the Assembly of member States “Strengthening Resilience in
Nutrition and Food Security on the African Continent.”
There are a number of valuable instruments (locally, regionally and globally) that once implemented will
ensure aspirations of the African Union Theme of 2022 are achieved. Among them:
• The 10-year implementation plan of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 (Goal 17) recommends
that 20% of rural women have access to and control of land by 2023, helping to accelerate
achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• The Kilimanjaro Initiative (2012), a pan-African, women-led campaign, seeks to complement the
vision set forth in the AU’s Agenda 2063 by creating space for rural women to participate in
decision-making processes about their rights to land as women and smallholder farmers. In
2016, the initiative issued the Kilimanjaro Charter of Demands for actualizing rural women’s
land rights. In a gathering of grassroots women leaders at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the
charter of demands was formally delivered to a representative of the African Union Commission
(AUC), witnessed by government representatives, Civil Society Organization (CSO) leaders, and
the 500 rural women attending the assembly.
• The African Union has developed the AU Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy
and Action Plan to guide, coordinate and support the Continent’s response to Climate Change
for the period 2022-2032.
• The International Authority on Development (IGAD) Women’s Land Right Agenda 2021-2030
• At COP26 in Glasgow in December 2021, State Parties were invited to submit views on how to
enhance climate action on land under the existing UNFCCC programs and activities on the
relationship between land and climate change, to be made available in November 2022 at
COP27. Thus, there is increasing recognition that secure land rights are foundational to addressing challenges
facing our current and future generations related to resilience in food security, nutrition, and climate change. But this recognition is yet to tackle escalating and deepening gender and class inequality in control and ownership of land and valuable assets, which is the basis for these challenges.
The gender bias surrounding land governance in the majority of African societies remains a critical barrier into fulfilling women’s human rights. Land is foundational to the human rights to housing, food,
livelihood, a clean and healthy environment, cultural participation, and even to life; and land rights determine how women, girls, boys and men access, own, control, and bequeath land and other natural
resources. Escalating attacks on women land rights defenders, continued negative impacts of uncontrolled extraction of land and natural resources, and low attention in terms of resources and
advocacy to advance women’s land rights are undermining efforts to promote gender equality and
sustainable development. Furthermore, given the crucial role of women’s land management for climate mitigation and adaptation, we are all at increased risk in the face of the climate crisis when women lack strong and equal land rights and equal representation in land governance at
all levels.
The Stand for Her Land (S4HL) Campaign is urgently calling on world leaders to recognize the role that secure women’s land rights play to reduce gender inequality, build more resilient communities through improvements to food security and nutrition, and address the climate crisis. The S4HL
Campaign is designed as a global advocacy initiative that aims to accomplish
lasting change on the ground through collective actions at grassroots, national, and global levels towards securing women’s land rights.
Most countries already have in place policies and legal frameworks that are necessary to deal with gender and other inequalities related to land governance. But their implementation remains the biggest barrier to achieving meaningful development outcomes. For this reason, the S4HL campaign aims to close this gap between national, regional and global commitments and local practice, to build a future where all women and men have equal rights to the land they depend on to thrive.
In Africa, the initiative received financial support from the German Government to undertake Campaign actions in Uganda, Senegal and Ethiopia through a joint collaboration between Landesa, International Land Coalition, Habitat for Humanity and several local grassroots women and civil society organizations. Furthermore, the campaign is committed to activating the media and other key stakeholders to achieve
this objective.
