How to enhance women’s land and resource rights? Reflections on co-creating gender transformative approaches

Lasting progress on gender equality requires more than simply reaching or benefiting women. It demands transforming the very systems that shape their access to land and resources. Perspectives from the 2025 CGIAR GENDER Conference session co-hosted by the Alliance.

An initiative to address the norms underpinning women’s rights

Over the last five years, IFAD’s global initiative “Securing Women’s Land and Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches”, implemented with CGIAR partners, has piloted gender transformative approaches (GTAs) across six countries to strengthen women’s tenure security and voice in natural resource governance.

The 2025 CGIAR GENDER Conference in Cape Town was an opportunity for researchers to reflect on the initiative. The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, CIFOR-ICRAF, and IFAD co-hosted a capacity development session titled “Co-creating gender transformative approaches to enhance women’s land and resource rights”.