Since its founding in 2023, the network has come together once a year to work on strategic joint coordination, knowledge sharing, and advocacy.

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Convening 2026

This year, we’re coming together to jointly strategize our future engagements with the Rio Conventions at national and global level. The convening will build on the results of last year’s workshop and the work done in the past months in the Global, National and Financing Action Track; with a triple COP year and several national reports ahead of us this year, this is the moment to coordinate our actions to negotiate for women’s land rights.

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Convening 2025 - Three Key Shifts

During the WLRI Convening in Nairobi in 2025, the network agreed on shared priorities and coordinated actions to take forward together, focusing on harmonising gender commitments, building solidarity in climate finance, and embedding women’s land rights in national agendas. These three pathways took centre stage, each offering a collective approach to build synergies across the Rio Conventions on biodiversity, climate, desertification and even beyond.

© Erick Forester

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Convening 2024 - Entry Point for Synergies

The workshop aimed to catalyse the promotion of women's land rights by fostering collaborative efforts and strategic entry points. Through dynamic discussions and interactive sessions, participants collectively explored ways to operationalise the debate on synergies for women's land rights. This joint exploration aimed to identify actionable strategies and activities that can be implemented at the local level to ensure a decentralised yet unified approach. The workshop also emphasised individual clarity and empowered participants to define their personal commitments and intentions towards the shared objectives.

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Convening 2023

During the Inception workshop of the WLRI, the intersections of (land) rights and gender commitments under the Rio Conventions were identified, a joint and practical understanding of the challenges to and opportunities for synergies for realising commitments to women’s land rights across the three conventions was developed and concrete action points for potential synergies in work programmes to foster new partnerships and greater cooperation for enhanced impact on the ground were identified.

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