21-25 September 2025
Nairobi, Kenya
From 21 – 25 September, the Women’s Land Rights Initiative: 2025 Workshop #WLRI25 brought together a global community with an intention to advance women’s land rights across the Rio Conventions. Our Founder and Director, Mrinalini Rai, joined the discussions alongside partners and advocates from around the world.
Building on momentum from previous convenings, the 2025 edition focused on (a) Strengthening solidarity and shared vision within the WLRI network; and (b) Designing coordinated action across priority areas like financing, indicators, national plans, and gender caucuses.
Hosted at Fairview Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya this workshop deepened collaboration, collective resilience, and impact for women’s land rights worldwide.
More About Women’s Land Rights Initiative (WLRI)
We’re proud to have joined the Women’s Land Rights Initiative, alongside hosts TMG Think Tank for Sustainability, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and the Huairou Commission – a women-led social movement of grassroots groups in over 45 countries – as well as co-hosts the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
With more than 60 partners from across the political spectrum, we are leveraging our collective expertise to embed women’s land rights across the 3 Rio Conventions. And we’re making sure that grassroots organisations and women’s voices guide decision-making. Rooted in deep community engagement, we champion solutions that reflect the realities and ambitions of local land users to drive more equitable solutions.
Learn more about what we do here
A critical part of our work entails diving into key decisions across the Rio Conventions that spell ripe opportunities – or roadblocks – to advance land rights. The 2024 triple-COP year – UNFCCC COP29, CBD COP16, and UNCCD COP16 – offered an unprecedented opportunity to align global action on land, climate, and biodiversity. Land tenure, often marginalised in climate negotiations, gained new recognition with promising new developments to strengthen their ties to human rights, gender equality, and Indigenous and community Governance.
Explore this time-critical policy brief by TMG Think Tank for Sustainability that identifies key outcomes, gaps, and entry points for advocacy and policy action after 2024’s triple COPs. It offers guidance for decision-makers and stakeholders navigating the complex, and often contested, terrain of multilateral land governance.
Learn more about Women’s Land Rights Initiative and join the movement.
