2025 - Together Women Rise

The recipe for this month, a rather cold February 2025, is in honor of our grantee, Kakenya’s Dream. The dream is to “invest in girls from rural Kenya through educational, health, and leadership initiatives to create agents of change.” The weather and the subject of our inspiration (Kenyan cuisine, girls being empowered…) seemed to conspire to prod me toward a stew of some kind, a stew that would warm your heart, lift your spirits, and fill you up. Enter: Maharage Ya Nazi, Details

Rehema, a participant with Transformation Partner, Landesa, smiles as she looks down at a table of woven baskets at an open air market

Together Women Rise

Gender Equality, Transformation Partnerships

Landesa, Tanzania

The Power of Women-Led Movements for Land Rights

The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights works globally to elevate and catalyze the voices and leadership of grassroots women and women-led organizations who are driving the movement on land rights at local and national levels to realize both gender and climate justice. Under its Transformation Partnerships grant with Together Women Rise, in 2024 the Center carried out a range of activities to help reach its goal of achieving long-term, systemic gender equality impact.

For example, in Tanzania, a series of trainings on women’s land rights was facilitated by the Landesa Stand for Her Land team. The trainings equipped participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to adopt transformative agroecological practices, understand women’s land rights, and leverage these tools for women’s economic empowerment. Details