The Land and Housing Campaign has developed a number of partnerships and platforms that promote women’s land and housing security around the world.

Some Examples of Ongoing Partnerships

GLTN- Global Land Tools Network

The Huairou Commission is a key partner in two areas of GLTN: The Grassroots Mechanism, which works to ensure land tools developed and promoted by GLTN are pro poor and participatory, and the Gender Mechanism, which monitors whether land tools are gender sensitive.

The Global Land Tool Network is an initiative of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN HABITAT). The GLTN’s main objective is to contribute to poverty alleviation and the Millennium Development Goals through land reform, improved land management and security of tenure.  The GLTN takes a holistic approach to land issues, by improving global coordination on land, and has developed a global partnership on land issues pulling together global partners, including international networks of civil society, International finance institutions, international research and training institutions, donors and professional bodies.

Landesa, Rural Development Institute

The Huairou Commission is linking with Landesa to conduct grassroots women focused research on joint titling systems and their impacts on women. 

Landesa is a leading research institution on global land rights, based in Seattle Washington, USA. Landesa promotes the rule of law by partnering with governments, donors and local non-governmental organizations to help design and implement sustainable and replicable solutions to poverty. Landesa researches, designs, advocates, and helps implement legal policies and programs that support fair and democratic development. 

Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies

The Huairou Commission works with IHS to help communities combat evictions and find unique methodologies in combating land grabbing, such as land tribunals.

As the institute of urban management of Erasmus University Rotterdam, IHS has developed into the leading international knowledge center with 50 years of experience in applied knowledge for urban management and development. Operating on a global scale, IHS offers post graduate education, training, advisory services and applied research. 

Open Society Institute, Law and Health Initiative

Currently, Huairou Commission works with OSI LAHI to enforce inheritance rights as a means of mitigating and combating HIV/AIDS. It links with the Inheritance Rights Legal Network of South and East Africa, an OSI supported initiative, through the WLLA initiative.

OSI’s Law and Health Initiative is part of its Public Health Program. It supports efforts to ensure accountability in health policy and protect the health and human rights of society's most marginalized persons. 

Some Examples of Our Work with Partners

The Women's Land Link Africa (WLLA)

The Women’s Land Link Africa (WLLA) Initiative is a partnership project originally envisioned in 2004 by Huairou Commission with the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), UNHABITAT and UNFAO. It is now coordinated by the Huairou Commission in partnership with COHRE and it supports grassroots organizations in Africa to collectively address women’s secure tenure as a regional issue.  The WLLA supports local initiatives and at the same time, creates a regional space for dialogue and learning. The WLLA is a platform for land rights for women in Africa that is grassroots women led, allowing for creative innovations to address realities on the ground.

Inheritance Rights and HIV/AIDS Global Platform

Together with OSI LAHI and the UNDP HIV Team, Huairou Commission has developed the Inheritance Rights and HIV/AIDS Global Platform. The Platform meets regularly at each Commission on the Status of Women to discuss issues and strategies in addressing the linkages between HIV and land. Several other organizations, including UNDP HIV/AIDS Team, Human Rights Watch, Canadian HIV Legal Network, International Centre on Research on Women and a number of national organizations, such as Huairou members GROOTS Kenya, Rural Women’s Movement, South Africa, KELIN, Kenya and WLSA Malawi are a part of the platform.