Building capacities to protect women’s land rights in Sierra Leone - GCP/SIL/049/IRE
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Access to and control over land is an essential prerequisite ofthe right to adequate food in rural areas of Sierra Leone. Since 2014,with technical support from FAO, Sierra Leone has supportedthe implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the ResponsibleGovernance of Tenure of Lands, Fisheries and Forests in the Contextof National Food Security (VGGT), embedding the principles ofthe Guidelines in the country’s National Land Policy (NLP).As the government considered possible NLP implementationstrategies, a stronger framework for addressing women’s land rightsin Sierra Leone was imperative to ensuring that rural women inthe provinces were able to negotiate, claim and defend their rightsand access.