The WLRI community agreed on shared priorities and coordinated actions that focus on the integration of women’s land rights in global and national level Rio agendas, harmonizing gender commitments across the three Conventions, and building solidarity in climate finance.

To operationalize this approach, the WLRI has defined three priority Action Tracks:

a Global Action Track focused on anchoring women’s land rights across Rio Convention processes and decisions, such as global Gender Action Plans, negotiation processes and positioning;
a National Action Track focused on integration of women’s land rights into national planning, national Gender Action Plans, monitoring and reporting; and
a Financing Action Track focused on strengthening access to finance and inclusion in climate and environmental finance.

These Action Tracks were jointly defined and endorsed by over 60 organizations during the WLRI convening in 2025 and reflect a shared strategic framework of the initiative.

Each Action Track connects actors, links global policy processes with national and local realities, builds on synergies between the three Convention and provides a platform for coordinated action across climate, biodiversity and land governance agendas.

Global Action Track

The Global Action Track focuses on embedding women’s land rights within the processes, negotiations, and decision-making mechanisms of the Rio Conventions at the global level. This includes ensuring that strategic frameworks and Gender Action Plans explicitly recognize and allocate resources to women’s land rights as a prerequisite for achieving the Conventions’ objectives, as well as integrating women’s tenure security into indicators and reporting frameworks. Read more…

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National Action Track

The success of the Rio Conventions ultimately depends on action at the national and local levels. The National Action Track therefore focuses on integrating women’s land rights into the objectives, indicators, and budgets of national implementation frameworks under the three Rio Conventions, including National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) targets, and national drought plans. Read more…

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Financing Action Track

Women led grassroots organizations are at the forefront of resilience efforts, but they are cut off from critical resources, with less than a fraction of climate finance reaching them. Building solidarity over competition in environmental finance is crucial. Therefore, we need to collaborate on democratising knowledge of and direct access to financing especially for grassroots organizations. Read more…

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