A Decade of Climbing and Claiming Rights: Women’s land rights and the Kilimanjaro Initiative Campaign

Overview

This evaluation report presents the experiences, achievements, lessons, and challenges of the Kilimanjaro Initiative, a rural women’s land rights campaign in Africa. The campaign was officially launched in 2016 with the adoption of the Charter of Demands and Aspirations of African Women on Land Rights. Over the past ten years, rural women organized through the Africa Kilimanjaro Women Forum (AKIWOFF) have used the Charter as a key advocacy tool to advance women’s land and natural resource rights at local, national, regional, and global levels. The evaluation documents a decade of campaigning and collective action, assesses progress made, identifies emerging issues affecting women’s tenure rights, and provides recommendations to strengthen future strategies for mobilizing and empowering rural women across Africa to advocate.