FCI launches New Project for Rural Women's Land Conflicts

Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI) has launched a new project entitled ‘Enhancing peace and social cohesion through the promotion of equitable access to and use of land for rural women in conflict-prone communities and concession areas’, at Corina Hotel in Monrovia’s Sinkor, on April 14, 2024. The launch event was attended by the stakeholders of the firm as well.

The project is supported by UN Women and funded by United Nations Peacebuilding Office in order to curtailing conflicts arising from land ownership that has targeted Grand Gedeh and Nimba Counties.

The Project Coordinator of FCI, Madam Hawa D. Varney stated that the outcome of Liberia Peacebuilding Office conducted land governance conflict survey in the year 2020. The survey disclosed that the property disputes persist as one the key threats to national peace and stability.

She further stated, “It is intended to promote the commitment and accountability of companies to carry out heightened human rights due diligence, as well as the promotion of the Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs), which offer guidance to businesses, including concessions on how to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in companies. It will educate communities and local authorities on existing mechanisms for early warning and conflict resolution. We will conduct tailored capacity – building sessions for Liberia National Rural Women Structure to draw on the gender -climate – security nexus in their future advocacy efforts to demonstrate the linkages between rural women’s access to land tenure, resolution of land disputes, and climate adaptation.”