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Women's
Right to Land: Voices from Grassroots Movement and Working Women's Alliance
from Gujarat
'Studies
have shown that a key factor associated with rural poverty is access to land.
Yet in many parts of India there remains a huge gender gap in land ownership
and control - with significant implications for women's economic and social
status. This document traces the journey of the Working Group on Women and Land
Ownership (WGWLO), a network of 23 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) based
in Gujarat, India, which came together in 2003 to bring visibility to the issue
of women and agricultural land ownership, and to carry out advocacy initiatives
to change aspects in laws and policies of the Government of Gujarat which
inhibit women from owning land in their name. This document describes the
process which led to WGWLO's emergence and details the strategies they used,
including organising workshops at the grassroots level to raise awareness of
the issues, conducting research, reaching out to the media, carrying out
capacity building and advocacy at the national level - for example advocating
for incentives to be incorporated into government schemes so that men are
motivated to transfer land in the name of women from their household - and
trying to integrate the issue of women's land ownership within ongoing NGO
programmes.'
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