KELIN contributes to women’s land rights discourse in Arusha

Between 27^th August and 2^nd September, KELIN’s Women Land & Property Rights Programme Manager, Onyango Ondeng, Programme officer, Jessica Oluoch and KELIN’s champion, Elder Kasuku Kalolo participated in a one week training titled “Securing Your Family’s Future: Transforming Peer Norms about Women’s Land Rights. A Course for Men”. The training, which was undertaken in Arusha, Tanzania, was informed by a draft social norms curriculum, developed by Lori Rolleri Consulting in collaboration with Uganda Community Based Association for Child Welfare (UCOBAC), KELIN and Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC).

The objective of this training was to strengthen participants’ knowledge, skills and capacity needed to effectively facilitate the ‘Securing Your Family’s Future (SYFF’) curriculum. Three non-governmental organizations in East Africa, KELIN, PWC and UCOBAC, have been working in partnership to explore how negative social norms about women’s land rights can be changed. The partnership identified key social norms that prevent realization of women’s land rights, reframed these norms so that they promote women’s land rights, and developed a theory of change logic model to guide the development of multiple social norms interventions. This curriculum-based intervention is designed to change peer norms about women’s land rights among men in local communities.

KELIN nominated Elder Kasuku Kalolo as part of the training team given that he was instrumental in outlining some of the social norms that are perceived to promote and prevent women’s access, use and ownership to land and property. During this time, 19 trainers engaged in this week long discourse. Piloting and pre-testing of the project within the three East African countries is planned to kick off by October 2017.

As a result of this training, KELIN hopes to ensure that social norms that violate women’s land and property rights are demystified and that through the implementation and roll out of this curriculum, there will be an eventual increase women’s access to, use, ownership and control of, and decision-making about, land in Kenya.

 

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For more information contact:

 

Onyango O. Ondeng

Programme Manager, Women Land and Property Rights

Milimani area |Opposite Jalaram Academy

Off Nairobi Rd @ Kisumu Pentecostal Church

P.O Box 7708| 40100 Kisumu – Kenya

Tel: +254-57-2532664: Cell- [Office]: +254-708-342197