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WE HAVE EXPERIENCED WORKING IN DEVELOPMENT FACING CHALLENGES: The role of government is changing policy: Government public services people attitudes towards community development work; Politicians interference in regularizing land rights policy work, Living/life conditions, Different customs, religion and culture; Lack of normal support networks, Host Organizations are a new kind of workplace, Health Challenges.

The organization has increased skill building and strengthening of CBO’s on women’s land and property rights. And also conducted women land rights project that raises awareness and capacity building training for PARIVARTHANAN field staff: mainstreaming the strengthening of women’s land rights through policy dialogue at state & District level piloting and documenting of appropriate methodologies which strengthen women’s land rights. The increasing awareness of the discrimination women face in terms of their land rights, as well as recognition that this is a priority topic for those concerned with food security, rural development, and women’s empowerment.

Women do not have secure, clear, and legal rights to own their ancestral land. These legal gaps make it easier for outsiders to claim the land as their own, or for governments to give away the land for logging, agriculture, mining, and etc. As a result, Women can suffer from violence, evictions, loss of their livelihoods, and other human rights violations. Lacks of women in the state directly depend on land, Land rights are a fundamental human rights issue and a means to achieve multiple development benefits. Land rights are a source of dignity and empowerment, as well as a basis for economic and social development, particularly for women. When women own the land they till, families tend to be better fed, better educated and healthier. Daughters tend to marry at an older age and wives tend to suffer less incidents of domestic violence. Babies are born with higher birth weights. Food security and economic development increase. Are threefold. Secure land rights for women. 1. Reduce poverty and vulnerability. 2. Increase women’s incentives to manage their land more sustainably by Planting trees and adopting more sustainable farming techniques. 3. Improve women’s bargaining power within the household. We believe that land governance that places people at its center can promote sustainable and more equitable social and economic development that can help eradicate poverty and food insecurity, and protect the environment for future generations. The answer is actually very simple: because the future depends on them. When women have secure rights to land, women’s status improves and they are better able to take care of themselves, their families, and their land. Research demonstrates links between strengthening women’s rights to land and productive assets and women’s increased participation in household decision making. This has powerful continued ripple effects: 1. Better nutrition and food security for families 2. Improved family health 3. Educational gains for children 4. Improved access to micro-credit and formal loans 5. Decreased vulnerability to contracting HIV/AIDS 6. Potential reduction in domestic violence Given the centrality of women’s land rights to a host of development and human rights outcomes, the PARIVARTHANA for Women’s Land Rights works to prioritize and integrate them in all of PARIVARTHANA’s projects and initiatives. The PARIVARTHANA develops and implements innovative projects to strengthen women’s rights to land.

The Project aim is to position women to realize land rights, improving their long-term economic and social prospects and enabling them to reduce vulnerabilities – including child marriage, lack of education, and malnutrition – that they face in the term as women.

The project is aimed regularizing long term possession of unauthorized land [Bagair Hukum Land] at Rural populace & women of rural areas who are having Long-term Unauthorized Occupied Land-‘BagarHukum’ and Forest, Landless women, men and their families obtain secure titles to their agricultural land and homestead land in the selected areas of six taluks of Shimoga & Uttara Kannada Districts of Karnataka, namely, Shikaripura, Soraba, Sagara, Bhatkal, Honnavara and Kumta. And the project involved secondary stakeholders like Government public servants, Elected Representatives, Policy makers and development practitioners.

We believe that land governance that places people at its center can promote sustainable and more equitable social and economic development that can help eradicate poverty and food insecurity, and protect the environment for future generations. The answer is actually very simple: because the future depends on them. When women have secure rights to land, women’s status improves and they are better able to take care of themselves, their families, and their land. Research demonstrates links between strengthening women’s rights to land and productive assets and women’s increased participation in household decision making. This has powerful continued ripple effects: 1. Better nutrition and food security for families 2. Improved family health 3. Educational gains for children 4. Improved access to micro-credit and formal loans 5. Decreased vulnerability to contracting HIV/AIDS 6. Potential reduction in domestic violence Given the centrality of women’s land rights to a host of development and human rights outcomes, the PARIVARTHANA for Women’s Land Rights works to prioritize and integrate them in all of PARIVARTHANA’s projects and initiatives. The PARIVARTHANA develops and implements innovative projects to strengthen women’s rights to land.

(i). Landless women, men and their families obtain secure titles to their agricultural land and homestead land in the selected areas. (ii). Women and their self-help groups have improved understanding on land rights to demand for their rights at the appropriate level.

methodology: Area: Land legal literacy programmes were conducted in two districts of Karnataka namely; Shivamogga and Uttara Kannada. Expected outcomes: • Improved knowledge on secured land rights through FRA. • Increased awareness on legal provisions under FRA that highlight land ownership. • Increased the knowledge on FRA and secured land rights of women, men and gross roots Communities. • Improve their understanding of land use and its linkages with various government programs and Services.

Policy makers and development practitioners are starting to take Lead; A number of state governments in India have passed laws to give women more secure rights to land. Some states in India, for example , have begun issuing land certificates with both husbands and wives names. A number of civil society organizations have increased campaigns for Land Legal Literacy, working through community-based legal aid workers, to provide people much-needed education about their rights and how to stand up for them. Grassroots women’s organizations are enlisting male elders as champions for women’s land rights. Progress has been made, but it is slow, And not nearly enough. So back to the question at hand: why should the world care about women’s right to land? the answer is very simple: because the future depends on it.

Have social impact: the potential for systemic change and significantly improve the quality of life of the underserved, especially those who are economically disadvantaged. Innovative and Scalable: the differentiate themselves from existing competitors/models in the field and have the possibility for replication. Demonstrate Sustainability: our Programmes that have a clear set of short and long-term outcomes, and a strategy for reaching those goals and achieving financial support and long-term sustainability.

Grassroots institutional building: In the beginning the community was un organized and they are now being facilitated into SHG’s and federated into federations – collective voice and strength – right based issues for enhancing their livelihoods through leveraging schemes, credit and inclusion in programmes. New voices and leaders – Women who have exhibited leadership qualities were trained separately to be the engines of development process in replicating, monitoring and being role models of their villages. The area is semiarid and the women do not have employment, poor access to markets to meet their livelihood demand. They are now being enrolled into MNREGS and have been capacitated into life skill employment programmes.

In the past twenty seven years, Parivarthana has been fortunate to positively impact twenty five thousand rural families, Women, Youth, Formers and Rural populace annually in the districts. Through partnership with governments and funding agencies, it has helped districts rural poor families, especially women obtain empowered, and the opportunity to break away from the cycle of poverty, and build a better future for themselves and their family.

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Seventy-five percent of the INDIA’s poor live in rural areas where land is a fundamental asset and a primary source of income, security, opportunity, and status. Yet more than half of these families lack either access to land or a secure stake in the land they till. Legal rights to land improve the resiliency of families so they can climb out of extreme poverty. Tangible land rights also lay the foundation for other development investments to take root — like education programs, financial services, and health care. PARIVARTHANA with governments to create tailored solutions to accelerate land rights for their citizens, and advocates for other development organizations and policymakers to include land rights as a cornerstone component to alleviate extreme poverty.

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Ownership of land plays an important role in strengthening women’s agency and giving them opportunities to assert themselves. There is ample evidence that women’s land rights lead to positive outcomes for the well-being of them and their families. Since land is a valuable and critical resource, the resistance towards women’s land ownership rights is equally strong in the patriarchal system that governs Indian society. The institutions responsible for making laws, and the people that implement them, are themselves deeply conditioned with the customs, practices and beliefs that create barriers for women to own land, both in India and in more than half the countries across the world.

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A comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system will be adopted. The project coordinator will monitor all the activities envisaged in the project. He/ she will be closely assisted by the community organizer, who will be inconstant touch with the target people. Day to day monitoring of the activities will be done. The project Director and other senior official of the organization will be review the project activities accomplished once in a month. Any short comings in implementation process will be noted and immediate remedial measures will be under taken. The project will be evaluated once in every quarter by the senior staff and yearly evaluation will be done by Donor agency and Board members of the organization with the community involvement.

FUNDING AGENCIES Half-yearly & Yearly

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The project will be implemented with the assistance of project staff in association with target group community duly building nexus with Government/Financial/Panchayath Raj Institutions. The active involvement of key persons of the organization will also be ensured. The net working NGOs expertise services will also be obtained if warranted at the time implementation scheduled activities.

Women are hardest hit by climate change. Research shows that women in the regions of the most affected by climate change, bear the brunt of increased natural disasters, displacement, unpredictable rain fall, decreased food production, and increased hunger and poverty. Women farmers are particularly at risk. Their rights to access, use, control, and manage land are often diluted or denied. While women grow the bulk of the food in many countries, they rarely control the land that they till. Often women’s rights to land depend on relationship to male family members. Laws and social norms often limit or ignore women’s land and property rights and routinely exclude women from decision-making on land and natural resources. Emerging evidence suggests that when women hold secure rights to land, efforts to tackle climate change are more successful, and responsibilities and benefits associated with climate change response programs are more equitably distributed. Conversely, without effective legal control over the land they farm or the proceeds of their labor, women often lack the incentive, security, opportunity, or authority to make decisions about ways to conserve the land and to ensure its long-term productivity. Women in this situation know that if they work to irrigate their field or plant border trees, there is a good chance that they will not be the ones to reap the benefits. The stakes are high: while securing women’s land rights fosters critical gains, from enhanced social status, to greater food security, better health and educational outcomes for families, neglecting to do so could have significant negative effects on the wellbeing of women, children and their greater communities. Women’s security of tenure, especially for smallholder farmers, must inform ongoing climate change knowledge-generation, discussions, and interventions.

• There is a huge and need for LLLP for Forest land occupants/cultivators • Training module content is effective • Demand for more information and support on the land legal issues and its solutions • Majority of the participants who gained the knowledge on the training programme were approaching the concerned office authorities to get their secured rights over their land (from the impact study). • Many landless participants approached the gram panchayat for FRA applications • Beneficiaries are effectively utilizing their allocated plots (from the impact study) • Secured land rights to more and more families through various government programs • Offline discussion on LLLP: FRA in Panchayat and SHGs • PARIVARTHANA organization own initiative on the LLLP (Scale-up) •Against no action on FRC and BagarHukum applications. Revenue Minister has issued notice toDC.