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Expert Group Meeting on Land Rights, Climate and Gender
29 February - 1 March 2024, Quezon City, Philippines
Expert Group Meeting "Transforming Land Rights and Climate
Justice through a Women-Led Renegotiated New Social Contract"
Co-Chairs Roshni Sharma and Clarissa Augustinus, FIG
Task Force on Climate Compass, attended this expert group meeting. The
meeting was organised by the Rural CSO Cluster in partnership with the
Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), Huairou Commission (HC), University of
East London (UEL), Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST),
and the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
(ANGOC).
This EGM was a stocktaking exercise of global developments,
opportunities and entry points for further GLTN work in Phase IV and the
following four outcomes were in focus:
- To develop a common understanding on emerging challenges in
relation to land rights, climate justice and gender equality, and
how to respond to them effectively;
- To help develop the formulation of a new social contract to
facilitate women’s climate justice using the experience of women-led
land rights initiatives for inclusive and embedded multi-stakeholder
partnerships;
- To consider how to adapt existing GLTN land tools to deal with
the multi-faceted aspects of climate justice, gender equality, and
human rights; and,
- To determine how to adopt an affordable, effective, and
inclusive climate monitoring system in the context of land
insecurities and effectively land administration and other
responses.
Lessons from the EGM will help GLTN strengthen efforts such as
advocacy documents, tool adaptation for climate change, and responsive
land use planning projects. Ensuring women are beneficiaries as well as
active participants in discussions on climate change is vital as the
impacts threaten all populations.
Going forward, GLTN can focus on redirecting the climate change
narrative by documenting indigenous land management practices,
sharpening its agenda on climate change, and building partner capacity
at the national level. Don Marquez highlighted the importance of
circulating the draft social contract document for feedback to help
guide next steps, before thanking participants for their valuable
contributions.
Roshni Sharma has prepared a summary of each session in the attached
report
Louise Friis-Hansen/Roshni Sharma
April 2024
