Team Purpose:
The GROW campaign is about transforming the world’s broken food system so that it works for everyone. It is also about ensuring that the system is fit for a future where unequal access to natural resources and environmental challenges such as climate change, will make feeding the world even harder.Working with partners and allies around the world, it has helped increase investment in small scale agriculture, raised the bar on climate finance, helped communities win back their land and stop land-related human rights abuses, and won significant policy commitments from the world’s biggest food companies.More than 50 countries have been engaged in the GROW campaign, mostly in the global south.
Job Purpose:
This role leadsinternational advocacy to securewomen’s land, forest and waterrightsacross the world, through advocating for effective implementation of international and regional frameworks and instruments that adequately incorporate measures to strengthen and promote women’s land rights. This includes advocacy tostrengthen women’s land and property rights in key international and regional frameworks and guidelines. The role will draw on and contribute to increasing the implementation of existing international law and commitments on women’s land rights, in particular the SDGs, as well as others such as CEDAW, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa and the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure.Additionally, the role works to ensure that these commitments are implemented, and translate to real-world change in the lives ofwomen through national and local policy and practicethat strengthens women’s land rights in all tenure systems. This includes providing support and facilitation to colleagues and grassroots organisations on programme, influencing and advocacy. The role will also help to ensure an inclusive approach to women’s land rights –ensuring that under-represented women’s voices are also amplified and visible in debates; and helpto grow and strengthen Oxfam’s internal women’s land rights community.
Job Responsibilities
1.Influence, with clear propositions and strong arguments, international and regional agreements, and multilateral institutions, to give greater, and more in-depth attention to women’s land and property rights
2.Facilitate increased and in-depth debate on strengthening women’s land and property rights among civil society, the public, government and the private sector
4.Ensure the development and implementation of monitoring systems to track women’s land rights policy, its implementation and its impacts.
Job Requirements:
Essential Experience:
Desirable
Tagged as: Oxfam, Women land rights
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