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Drawing upon the experience of USAID’s E3/Land Office managing 8 impact evaluations and providing technical assistance in the field, M.Mercedes Stickler, Senior Land Governance and Evaluation Advisor for the E3/Land Office, presents practical tips for evidence-based programming in the USAID context. This presentation was given at the USAID Environmental Officers Conference on February 25, 2016.

On October 27, 2015, from 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM EDT, USAID, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Landesa hosted a panel event to discuss the intersection of women’s empowerment, land rights and food security at IFPRI’s headquarters at 2033 K St NW, Washington, DC. Chris Jochnick, one of the panelists and Landesa’s CEO, went into greater detail with three additional questions.

On October 27, 2015, from 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM EDT, USAID, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Landesa hosted a panel event to discuss the intersection of women’s empowerment, land rights and food security at IFPRI’s headquarters at 2033 K St NW, Washington, DC. Susan Markham, one of the panelists and USAID’s Gender Coordinator, went into greater detail with three additional questions.

Throughout much of the developing world women have fewer rights and less access to one of the most important livelihood assets: land. While situations vary across countries and contexts, in general, women own less land than men. Moreover, the land that women do control tends to be smaller in size and inferior in quality to land controlled by men. This often limits women’s economic opportunities and leaves them more vulnerable to poverty, hunger and displacement. Yet a growing body of evidence demonstrates a profound link between stronger women’s land rights and a variety of critical development issues, including enhanced food security and improved household nutrition. Acknowledging this, in September the international community officially adopted the Sustainable Development Goals – which included ending poverty, achieving food security and gender equality as Goals 1, 2 and 5 – and all included land rights and resources as a key underlying component. In the U.S., Congress recently passed the Girls Count Act, which built on USAID’s Gender Policy of 2012 and prioritizes women’s land and property rights in development programs.

On October 27, 2015, from 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM EDT, USAID, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Landesa hosted a panel event to discuss the intersection of women’s empowerment, land rights and food security at IFPRI’s headquarters at 2033 K St NW, Washington, DC. The panel event was open to the public and streamed live online.

Event Start Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 – 09:30
Event End Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 – 11:00

Moderator:
	Charles North (USAID), Sr. Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Economic Growth, Education, and Environment Charles North is a Senior Foreign Service Officer and has held numerous Washington leadership positions within USAID and the State Department.
Panelists:
	Chris Jochnick (Landesa), CEO Chris Jochnick is a global land rights expert and social entrepreneur with decades of experience in international development. Prior to joining Landesa, Chris lead Oxfam America’s work on business and development, including the “Behind the Brands” campaign.
	Susan Markham (USAID), Gender Coordinator Susan Markham comes with an extensive background in both domestic and international women’s political empowerment. She most recently supported the aspirations of women around the world to be equal and active partners in shaping and leading democratic societies at the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
	Lauren Persha (UNC / Cloudburst), Research Advisor Lauren Persha (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Research Advisor at The Cloudburst Group. Her research broadly examines the intersection of natural resource sustainability, human welfare, and environmental governance.

IFAD’s Harold Liversage discusses the impacts of land tenure on youth with USAID’s Land Tenure and Resource Management Office as part of the “Ask the Expert” series on land tenure.

Yuliya Neyman, a Land Governance and Legal Advisor in USAID’s Land Tenure and Resource Management Office, talks to Agrilinks about issues of land tenure, rights and governance ahead of the July 29, 2015 Ag Sector Council webinar, “This Land Is Whose Land? Navigating Issues of Land Rights and Governance.”

Why Land Still Matters:
Three Years of the Voluntary Guidelines – Where Are We and Where Are We Going?

To mark the three year anniversary of the endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT), USAID’s Land Tenure and Resource Management Office hosted an online panel discussion on May 7, 2015, which featured discussants from key stakeholder organizations engaged in implementing the VGGT.

Panelists shared progress, lessons learned, and challenges from three years of Voluntary Guidelines implementation and discussed the next steps and future direction of this important issue.

The panel discussion was open to the public, and everyone was encouraged to join the conversation on Twitter using the official event hashtag #VGGT3yrs.

Moderator:
	Heath Cosgrove is the Director of USAID’s Land Tenure and Resource Management Office and a USAID Foreign Service Officer. Prior to this role, Mr. Cosgrove most recently served as the Director of the Microenterprise and Private Enterprise Promotion office in Washington DC and prior to that as the Director of Economic Growth, Water, and Environment in Lebanon and as the Economic Governance Division Chief in Afghanistan. Throughout his career he has worked in Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
Panelists:
	Paul Munro-Faure is the Deputy Director of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) based in Rome and has led FAO’s land tenure team since 2000. He has qualifications in land economy, rural planning and public sector land management, with extensive practical experience in the agricultural and urban sectors in the developed market economies, in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, in the Asia/Pacific region and in Africa.
	Annalisa Mauro is the International Land Coalition (ILC) Global Network Coordinator. She has worked in Latin America and Albania in participatory design of rural development projects. In 1999 she joined the ILC Secretariat where she managed the Community Empowerment Facility and the Agrarian Reform Network (ARnet). She has been coordinating the strengthening of the ILC Latin America platform first and the overall network now. In her current capacity, Annalisa is supervising the work ILC does at national and regional levels.
	Dr. Joan Cuka Kagwanja is the Chief of the Land Policy Initiative, an initiative of the African Union, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB). Dr. Kagwanja is a Kenyan national and holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has over 15 years experience in African development, having held several positions at UNECA, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).