Women Land Rights India: Framework for Theory of Change

Country: India

Location within country: PAN India

Name of Client: Womanity Foundation

Description of Project: Womanity Foundation sees immense potential in India to adopt approaches to analyze experiences and pathways that the different institutions have piloted across spatial landscapes, temporal gradients as well as socio-cultural categories to delineate strategic Theory of Change (ToC) that can be piloted and up scaled by a relevant actors, networks, and partnerships to drive equitable change with scalable impact at speed sustainably.

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

• To analyze selected pathways of change across critical Indian contexts and vis-à-vis the institutional mandate and scope of Womanity Foundation’s Women Land Rights India program.

• Identify impact pathways: Discussing with stakeholders practicing or promoting specific model and analyzing scope and opportunity for scaling up. This can bring a shared understanding on how identified changes at different levels are linked in the current context and generate evidence.

• Review positive and negative externalities: Potential risk and assumptions can be reviewed to make the pathway pragmatic and implementable. All such potential externalities and alternatives can be discussed with Womanity to bring a shared understanding of the conditions which need to be in place to enable/ deliver the change.

• Testing the ToC: Prior to finalization of the ToC, a test check of ToC on some of the sample components can be done to identify critical issues that may emerge in terms of its clarity, meaningfulness, ease of implementation, Identify potentially promising interventions to further secure land tenure rights and increase access to agricultural land, markets, entitlements, and services, especially for tenant farmers, including women