Following the passing of Robin Palmer in February 2023, Mokoro organised a seminar that paid tribute to Robin’s pioneering work within the land rights sector. On the 3rd of July 2023, 40 people gathered at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and 20 online to join this tribute to Robin, to look back at how the…

Rather than scaling up, I think we should be talking about scaling out and scaling over time when it comes to inclusive, community-led land governance. I tried these ideas out with some success two weeks ago at the annual LANDac Conference in the Netherlands, specifically during a Round Table which asked “(how) can we scale…

As well as being a Research Officer with Mokoro, Sarah Candy was, until recently, a part-time student at Glasgow Caledonian University, where she was studying for an MSc in Climate Justice. Her final project was about how climate change is impacting on the rates of child marriage.   Child marriage is a global issue that…

When WOLTS started in October 2015, we had three aims. First, we wanted to deliver stronger evidence on threats to women’s land rights. Second, we wanted to strengthen community, civil society and local government capacity to protect women’s land rights and govern land in a participatory, inclusive and gender-equitable way. Third, we wanted to show…

Many rural communities in Tanzania share similar challenges from mining companies and investors. I have seen first-hand how men and women gender and land champions can help. Over the past eight months, I have been travelling around small communities in the northern part of Tanzania with different gender and land champions supported by the global…

PCC joined the global WOLTS project seven years ago, as we were interested in its focus on gender and herding communities, especially those affected by mining, but we had no idea what a learning journey it would be! Our organisation focuses on participatory, community-led conservation, and we have worked with local groups all over the country….

Robin Palmer passed away on Sunday 19 February. Robin joined Mokoro as a Principal Consultant in 2007, and after retiring he continued to be closely involved with the company. Robin’s long-time colleague and friend, Martin Adams, also a retired Mokoro Principal Consultant, has written this piece commemorating the life of a highly influential and dedicated…

Stephen Sandford, who died on 10th February 2023, aged 88, was known and valued by many in the Mokoro circle. He was brought up in Ethiopia where his parents settled in the 1930s. His professional life was largely focused on livestock and pastoralism in Africa, but his Mokoro connections were personal as well as professional,…

From 1995 to 2005 I was the village chairman, and I was a ward councillor for ten years after that. I was very pleased when the community selected me to be a WOLTS gender and land champion. I have always supported the rights of all people, not just men, and I especially supported girls’ rights…

I have been involved in the WOLTS programme from the very beginning, since 2016, and it has changed everything. Before I went through the gender and land champions’ training, I had very little to live on. My husband had passed away and all our land and livestock had gone to our three sons. When I…