 afternoon, good evening, depending on where you are. My name is, as I've been introduced, my name is Naomi Shadrak. I'm a women's landforms advisor for Oxfam International. Thanks to the lander scale program and land portal for inviting me to this first thematic lander scale webinar on gender transformative approach. So I'm going to share a few insights based on Oxfam's experience on transformative leadership on women's land rights. But an important thing to say is gender transformative leadership on women's land rights is a continuous process. We continue to learn as Oxfam. It's something which we keep learning and reflecting on our work. The introduction of gender transformative leadership on women's land rights, the way I put it, is it is an approach for securing women's land rights, which transform power relations and structure and allow the leadership potential of women in accessing, controlling, managing, and owning land and land related resources. So it starts from personal change by allowing us practitioner, advocate, civil society, government to think transformatively and then transforming architecture of power within our institutions and the institutions we are working with to deliver for women's land rights. So before the principles and value can think about when we want to achieve transformative leadership on women's land rights, first we have to know that women's land rights is a human right. It helps women's land rights helps women to access other rights such as rights to food, rights to shelter, identity, food security. We know that, but also women land rights help women to get gender equality to allow women to enjoy their rights to land equally to men. But it also allowed the participation of all stakeholders, women, men, vulnerable group, visible group, and invisible group, but also thinking about transformative leadership of women's land rights. It helps us to meaningful consult throughout the process of the project. So from the beginning of the project up to the end. But it helps us to respect the dignity of people because transformative leadership I will discuss later, wants us to look at our own politics and practice of power to make sure that the way we are implementing the project respects the dignity of people we are working with. But also transformative leadership is a collective thinking and collective decision making. So all the stakeholders working in the program working collectively to change to to to affect the social change. So as we are planning to start the project, I know some are the inception phase, some of them started implementing. There I think there are a few things to consider if we want to make sure our projects achieve transformative leadership for women's land rights. The first and foremost, very important is the gender analysis. Do we have the gender analysis? Has it been done? Has is it completed? What does it tell us? Looking at the key issues on the gender analysis. So if the project has a gender analysis or at the country level, before implementing, you look at those very important elements which gender analysis tells us. What are the social variables such as ethnicity, culture, age, and social class of the people we are going to work with? What are the norms on gender information about women, men, girls, boys? In terms of their division of labor, roles and responsibility, they play what are their roles to accessing and controlling of our resources and relative condition and position in the society. So we have to know the women we are going to work with. What is their position in the society? And also issues such as data, qualitative and quantitative data, because they help us to reflect because what we want is to be able to measure how much we have affected transformative leadership on women's land rights. So we have, we need to have quantitative and qualitative data, but also highlight on specific vulnerability of women and men, girls and boys. So we have to know what are their vulnerability for now because we are going to go there with the project. We have to know what is their vulnerability for now and what are the potential for change? What are the agencies which we can support, what the project can support and can give us potential for change? So I've mentioned about data, the segregated data, showing address and other identities in the community or in the country, but also we should have a monitoring and evolution framework, which will include aspects we have, aspects drawn from the gender analysis. So the identities and stakes, the gender I've mentioned, the bath, all those should be put on the monitoring and evolution framework to make us able to monitor and to measure how, what are the progress we are making and also how are we making sure that groups are participating, women and represented groups, invisible groups, in the community there might be invisible groups, how are they participating, if not in designing projects, even during the initial phase of the project for them to be able to give their views. But another very important aspect of the, to ensure that we are achieving transformative leadership is do we have a system of sharing feedback in the project because that's what gives power, give power to the stakeholders we are making. Are there adequate mechanisms in place for women, men, boys and girls to share feedback and raise concerns, criticisms and complaints about the activities we are doing because if they see our activities are increasing their vulnerability, they should be able to tell us so that we can do better before the project reaches a certain level. Yeah so do we have gender experts in the project or because it's a land program, land project, we just do it. So it's very important we have a gender expert, if we don't have a gender expert at the country or at the civil society, we have to make sure we are collaborating with the gender unit maybe at the government level if it's a government project or we should make sure we are getting input from external gender experts if that was not considered but importantly we should have a gender expert advising and monitoring how we are doing this, we are implementing the program and the project at the country level. If there are specific targeted investments, budget allocated to addressing gender issue, some land projects do not consider gender and like investment on gender in the land project may be very minimal but if we really want to make sure there's gender transformation in the project we have to make sure there's a budget for doing that and another thing is what are what is the nature of our activities? Do they transform traditional gender roles held by women, men in other gender or it's just the implementation of activities but do not look at the traditional gender roles within the community and lastly the primary objective of the planned activity to all transform traditional gender roles held by women, men in other gender, this is very important because like ultimate goal is to transform social to effect social change in the community and make sure that women in other vulnerable groups are key agents and are key agents to transformation and bringing change and that's what gender transformative leadership why that's why it's very important. Yeah so now we are going to look at a few examples of what we term as gender blind, gender aware, gender sensitive and gender transformative. I think this is very important because some projects maybe that you will be doing something and it's very important but forgetting that that's that's gender blind. So gender blind in the project which we can say it's a gender blind a person chooses not to see difference between gender. So there is a risk that the project reinforce inequality and lead to unintended negative consequences to women, girls and boys. The project acknowledge difference between gender but does not do anything to address them simply the project does not challenge traditional gender roles, relations, social norms or division of labor that are root causes of gender inequality and power imbalance. Yeah so you find you have the project but you see you see an issue you see an issue but you don't you don't you choose to be blind you choose to not to not see the if the issue is because of of of gender so it become blind. Example the project does not respond to gender analysis issue as I said earlier we should have a gender analysis in the countries most of the country like the gender ministry they have they they have gender analysis even even project one or country one they have it but that the project address respond to gender analysis issue or do we have a mechanism for participation consultation so these kind of issues can lead us to to a gender blind project and the project refuses to see power dynamic if you you're talking about participation of women then the project said the project says okay it's okay we have this number you don't you don't consider this gender number of women in number of men this can end up to increase vulnerability and reinforcing gender inequality but also I want to speak a little about gender aware we can have a project which is gender aware in tune with differences the project is in tune with differences expectation and need of people of different gender but has limited activities to respond to the need of the practical needs of women so activities knowledge division of labor and roles in the project are known but there's no challenge traditional gender roles relation or social norms sometimes challenging social norms can be seen as dangerous so you find the project does not have the social norm and so it's gender where they are like the project understand the social norms but chooses to keep quiet to address or to challenge the social norms so this is a project which aware but it does not that's not do better because of limited action to challenge these gender roles in relation in social norms the gender aware project has high risk to to cause intended negative consequence for women girls and other the the type I want to talk about is gender sensitive or gender responsive project which acknowledge differences and inequality between women and men and other gender and and seek to respond to their specific specific practical needs so it performed all the activities to make easier things easier for women and men to fulfill their duties based on the gender laws and targeted specific group of women and other gender and seeks to identify the issue the risk which can cause unintended negative consequence as I said the first one may lead to risk of increasing vulnerability the gender sensitive project make sure that make me to get the risk which can come because of unintended negative consequences which can come because of the project so we want to achieve the gender transformative uh transformative leadership on women's land rights which goes beyond acknowledging and responding between responding on issues of women's land rights and other so this is what we want and as I said earlier our activities have to address structural inequalities issues of power across the program across the community and tackle powerlessness of the women yeah so if women do not own land what we like our program is going to tackle why are they powerless uh why why are they not um why are they vulnerable so this is what our project is going to do and activities our activities are aiming at changing behavior and attitude and transform the the position of women the position of vulnerable group in the community and we are making sure that the resources are located to build the capacity of women and girls to build the agency which is very important to effective change and to build the potential of change because the gender analysis has told us so what is the agency and what is the potential of change in this group so our we are going to make sure there's there's enough resource to build the agency to build the potential uh and increase their representation in leadership increase the decision making power and control of resources and making sure that we are mitigating all the risk of unintended negative consequence so I would challenge everyone um everyone of us um in their activities um to support to to making sure that we are leading to to that stage for example for the in case there is a group here which is going to do a land support land certificates for women in vulnerable group I would encourage us to build the capacity build the agency build the potential of change to the group we are going to support um with the land certificates program to make sure that even after the end of the project that group we are going to support is going to continue so gender transformative leadership help um the community to to to continue with that work even after after the project so it helps sustainability of the project this is what makes it very important so um I don't know how many minutes I still have I I want to share a little bit about some um some projects um some uh some some project from the evaluation which was done by oxham uh on the project which aimed at the transformative leadership for women's rights so there's an example from Uganda working with local cultural institution um so the example says um in terms of leadership we are leading well but with the program on land rights women have no voice but if we can use local cultural institution they can influence great change our clan development a constitution our clan developed a constitution with a lawyer advising us and approving it we set up good procedures for women who have been widowed and for many other things um so from the the example in Uganda I've shared the link to this um to this my oxham material uh with Maike I think she'll share with you we can support um women activists leadership and human rights defenders and uh in the male allies um to work so with the with the example in Uganda what what we see is to see what are the what what are the institution of change uh with here the cultural institution with with the example in Uganda with the cultural institution are very strong how are we going to work with the cultural institution to transform um social norms because that's where the challenge is another example I want to share with you is um uh women influencing access for healthcare in Tunisia I think this example is uh is very important um in the village of Kef and Kasserine the women's demand was to have clear and transparent eligibility criteria for the free reduced fee healthcare card and for the for these women to be represented in the commission deciding on the individual's eligibility access of this card the director of the Tunisia union of social solidarity after lobby meeting uh pledge to fulfill this demand nationally not only in this village and to have NGO represented in the committee now we are working to ensure the directors whales are converted into action and that the women themselves are represented in the commission so I I thought this example of women um accessing platform of decision making is very important even to us who are working on women's land rights um so we find um there are committees from the village level uh district level after national level in countries how are we making sure that women are accessing those not only women even the civil society how are women how are civil society addressing this because if you are part of the decision making table you are able to influence change and how are the project planning to make sure that these are put into laws because if the project influences the changes the change and leave we need to make sure that there is continuation another example which I want to share is um as I said gender transformative leadership is can be challenging and can because you are challenging power so uh transformation change involve greater risk and um um transformative leadership for women's land land right land right um can can cause violence against women's human right defender um how how are the projects um planning to support that because we are addressing social change and it's not easy um to change um people who are in power because power give them comfortability um so um we have to have that in in consideration that women's land right defenders are going to experience challenges and the project should plan on how uh we can support them because um uh what transformative leadership for women's land that we'll do is to to to to um to challenge power and people people like who hold power not everyone will be happy for their power to be challenged so in conclusion sorry if I've taken so much time so in conclusion an important element here is making sure that power is shared with all stakeholders throughout the project time allowing them to sit at the driving seat toward the intended objective allow women gas and the vulnerable groups to be able to choose the um the future they desire the desire for themselves um how they want to manage control and own their land transformative leadership for women's land right is a sustainable is sustainable because its impacts will go beyond the land art scale project so even after the land art scale project has gone um the agency uh we have built the potential change we have built continue beyond the the project time uh and lastly I want to share uh from the pioneer for uh for transformative transformative leadership for women's rights learning from learning on transformative feminist leadership so she has 4p 4p embedded in self and um these are 4p power politics and purpose practice and principle and value so what she says is um power is very important if you want to uh to reflect transformative leadership for women's land rights and women's land rights if you want our project to be transformative we have to start with power recognizing that we are not going to change power structure within countries or village we are going to we are we are we will work it but also we are going to change power structure um on how people accessing land in village and country but before that we are going to make sure that we change how we exercise our own power as practitioner as individual as the program so um reflecting on how as practitioner we are using our power but after reflecting on self then you go to see how you are going to um to change the power and if we if we if you you have power um if you have not that you have power which you have to use it well and not cause more harm and then you are transforming another power structure then another p is politics and purpose of your power how you are using your power so as as as the program we are we have power how are we using our power and power of other other people so role of politics and purpose is very important if you are using your power because you want to affect social transformation so if we we want to affect social transformation in the countries we are working with then our purpose is very right and we are we are moving toward um during the transformative on on women's land rights but um another p comes after politics and purpose and this is principles as our principles and values I mentioned them earlier so our politics have to be built on certain principles and value so how are we addressing our power and what are the politics but what principles and values are we carrying ourselves with we respecting human rights gender equality we respecting dignity of people we are working this these are very important these sex boundaries and check on how we use our power and how we transform it transform the institution we are working with and the last which depend on other therapy I've mentioned is practice of transformative leadership so practice of transformative leadership comes automatically if you check on your power you check on the politics and purpose which which um which comes with your power and you have the right principles and value at um automatically your practice the way the way you you you your activities are automatically um will align with your principles and um I think you will um reach to uh level where your activities your program is gender transformative and you will be able able to reflect um gender transformative on women's land rights in the countries where we'll be implementing our project sorry for taking so much time have visited the end of my my presentation thanks