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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before HakiMadini and WOLTS came to Mundarara, it was as though women in our village were sleeping. None of us was aware of our rights to land, many of us were mistreated by our husbands and we never spoke in ...

Being part of the WOLTS project with HakiMadini has really changed things for me. Before I did the gender and land training, I had no idea that women had a right to land, the same as men do. In my family, we used to ...