WGWLO - Working Group For Women and Land Ownership

This is official Channel of WGWLO organization.

The Working Group for women and land ownership (WGWLO) is an informal, unregistered network of 35 NGOs and CBOs in Gujarat, working on the issue of agriculture land ownership from livelihood, security, rights and empowerment angle for women. These are CBOs and NGOs spread in more than 15 districts of Gujarat, working at the rural grass roots level.

 

Objectives of WGWLO

- To work to increase women’s ownership of land by facilitating the implementation of existing laws of the Government of Gujarat.
- To influence the government and non-government agencies/persons, including the media, to help mainstream the issue of women and land ownership.
- To undertake advocacy for legal reform in laws of the Government of Gujarat that hinder women owning land in their own name.