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To Invest in Women’s Economic Empowerment, Finance Solutions From the Ground Up

By Ayman Soliman, Global Advocacy Program Officer with Landesa

S4HL Colombia – With coalitions in nine countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the S4HL Campaign is catalyzing a global movement for women’s land rights at the grassroots level. Here, a member of S4HL Colombia holds produce from her garden. Photo: Landesa

In her rural village in the Chitoor district in Andhra Pradesh, India, Shakti beams with pride in front of a plot of land. “Namma bhoomi,”- “This is our land,” says Shakti.

With the income from her land, Shakti can provide three meals a day for her children and pay the school fees for their education. Shakti also has a new status in her village and her home – a profound change from the days she was a landless laborer, earning about $1 a day. For Shakti, control over land was the impetus for that change.

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Co-creating with “Las mamás” in Perú

By Jenni Ahern, Program Director, Future of Fish Peru
Republished with permission from Future of Fish

You may hear the terms “participatory development”, “co-design” or “co-create” a lot these days as Community and International Development theory continues to evolve. This theory evolves and adapts to human beings and community identified needs, where the most crucial piece of participatory community development is trust building. Trust in process and in people, are the two necessary ingredients for success.

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A Holistic Intervention to Overcome Multiple Barriers to Women’s Entrepreneurship in Guatemala

Republished with permission from Global Communities

Toribia – a 54-year-old mother of eight from the Western Highlands of Guatemala – has long been a leader in her family, who strives to make a consistent income with their land and livestock. Because families in the Western Highlands are typically producers and consumers of their own food, they are reliant on agricultural activities to survive and can be heavily impacted by cyclical climatic shocks and natural disasters. They also face high levels of food insecurity, child malnutrition, low literacy rates and health crises.

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