Operationalizing, Gender Equitable Land Governance in Odisha

Country: India

Location within country: Odisha

Name of Client: The World Bank

Description of Project: World Bank is supporting the implementation of FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of land, Fisheries and Forests, which intend to ensure that women and men are participating equally in their relationships to land, through both formal institutions and informal arrangements for land administration and management. CLG India is entrusted with the task of studying the status of gender equitable land governance in Odisha through the engagement of different stakeholders.

As part of the project, CLG had undertaken the following assignments.

• In depth analysis of the present status of women in land governance in Odisha.

• Identify and understand the challenges to achieve gender-equitable land governance.

• Determine capacity gaps in gender-equitable land governance.

• Develop a set of monitoring indicators to facilitate improved gender-equitable land governance in Odisha.

• Document and share the existing good practices in gender-equitable land governance