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Linking Women’s Land Rights, Climate Action, and the UN Women Peace and Security Framework

A Conceptual Model and Case Studies from South Asia

Landesa’s Women-Led Collective Advocacy for Climate Action Project supported grassroots women through capacity-strengthening and collective action to undertake effective leadership, advocacy, and resilience to climate change in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Maldives. The project leveraged the organizational strengths and partnership of Landesa, International Land Coalition (ILC), Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD), National Land Rights ForumNepal (NLRF), and Land Sea Maldives (LSM). The importance of women’s land rights (WLR)—a central theme of Landesa’s work—was recognized as a core component of the project as well as several project activities related to training and advocacy around WLR. The project had been supported by the US Department of State’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, which had encouraged our attention to the further important connections between WLR, effective climate action, and the global Women, Peace & Security (WPS) agenda.1 By drawing upon relevant (primarily grey) literature and resources, this report seeks to better understand and articulate the nexus between WLR, climate action, and WPS. The report ultimately illuminates how these interconnected agendas influence and support one another through a visual conceptual model and case studies captured through focused learning sessions with our partners in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Maldives. We developed this report and the conceptual model for illustrative purposes; we intend the model to serve as a tool to think about how the three themes of WLR, climate action, and WPS link to one another and could influence one another. The conceptual model is not meant to display firm, evidence-driven relationships. It is our aspiration that the lessons learned can be leveraged and taken up by project partners to further strengthen local, national, regional, and international awareness and action at the intersection of WLR, climate action, and WPS beyond the project cycle. Additionally, we hope that through sharing these findings, a wider network of relevant stakeholders, such as members of the Stand for Her Land Campaign and other development partners, might also find inspiration that can inform subsequent efforts.

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Organization: Landesa
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Year: 2025
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Type: Report
Content language: English
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