ICA Lambassa
Benin

Lambassa ICA is an NGO of mostly volunteers, based in the Donga region of Benin, and works with grassroots women and men. It was founded in 2004 for the promotion of women's rights, with a particular focus on women's right to inherit land and farm the land, as women are often disinherited in their area. They employ several techniques, including awareness-raising with women about their rights, engaging local authorities in discussions about the differences between existing laws and their implementation. They also work in partnership with other local community-based groups.

Association des Femmes pour l'Education et le Bien être des Enfants Orphelius (AFEBEO)
Burundi

AFEBEO was formed in 1997 initially to aid children traumatized by ongoing conflicts in Burundi. While focused on securing education and other rights for orphans, AFEBEO has recognized the need to focus on women, who are often caring for orphans, and has found land rights violations to be one of the most pressing issues. AFEBEO focuses its advocacy on the province of Ngozi, yet hopes to influence the entire country to take notice and make change for women to realize their land and housing rights.

ITERAMBERE
Burundi

Iterambere is located in the outskirts of Bujumbura, Burundi, and it is committed to promote women's land rights and to assist those who live with HIV/AIDS. They teach women about their rights to land inheritance, through workshop seminars, and have successfully worked with families to have them accept sharing land inheritance with their sisters. They work to fight AIDS-related stigma, and assist these who endure with AIDS, by donating food and materials to those in need, and providing free care from nurses a few days a week. Iterambere also runs a restaurant and raises cows to generate income for their activities.

Ntankah Village Women Common Initiative Group (NVWCIG)
Cameroon

NVWCIG was founded in 1996 to improve the long-term social and economic conditions of women through agricultural and rural development activities that improve women's ability to control and manage their resources. The group works to increase women's ability to produce, process, and market their products, and to increase production yields through the practice of environmentally sustainable methods. Women in the group lead community trainings in agricultural practices, as well as vocational training for youth, community responses to HIV/AIDS, and the establishment of women's credit and savings cooperatives.

Ghana Federation for the Urban Poor
Ghana

The Ghana Federation for the Urban Poor & People's Dialogue supports women's work in land, housing, property rights, AIDS, and violence against women. They act within the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The group strives to set up community help centers, educate women, network with other organizations, and promote national media campaigns concerning women's rights to property.

Grassroots Sisterhood Foundation
Ghana

Grassroots Sisterhood Foundation began in 2000 as a pressure and support group for victims of domestic violence, who were often blamed for the actions of violence against them. They felt stigmatized, and as a result many women and girls stopped pursuing the cases they were seeking justice. Women and girls are the main beneficiaries. Traditional, religious and local authority, men, women and youth and women groups are the targets of GSF's activities. GSF focuses on the promotion and protection of women's rights. Their activities surround issues of domestic violence, early and forced marriages, land, property and inheritance rights, and they have recently included HIV/AIDS and home based care.

GROOTS Kenya
Kenya

GROOTS Kenya, a network of over 1,000 grassroots women's groups, was established in 1995 to strengthen the role of grassroots women's groups in community development through direct participation in decision-making, planning and implementation. The group's development agenda includes shelter, environment, income generation, human rights, gender equity, social integration, and moral support. The network collaborates with other African groups on HIV/AIDS pandemic and other regional concerns, facilitates local, regional and international exchanges, and encourages savings groups.

International Women's Communication Center (IWCC)
Nigeria

IWCC-Nigeria serves as a critical link between the international network of women's rights and development organizations to Nigerian women at the grassroots level. The organization offers programs in governance, conflict resolution, micro-economic enterprise, and girls' education.

Rwanda Women's Network
Rwanda

The Rwanda Women's Network, founded in 1997, is a national humanitarian network of 22 grassroots organizations dedicated to the promotion and improvement of the socio-economic welfare of women and children. It provides medical support, housing, and a supportive community to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence across the country in the recognition that women and children remain the most vulnerable and marginalized groups within Rwanda.

Land Access Group of South Africa (LAMOSA)
South Africa

LAMOSA is an independent Community Based Organization (CBO) advocating for land and agrarian rights, substantive democracy, and sustainable development. LAMOSA was established in 1991 to mobilize dispossessed communities to collectively fight discriminatory colonial and apartheid land laws, racial and gender discrimination, and poverty. LAMOSA works in partnership with government and Civil Society Organization (CSO) in four provinces - Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northwest and Gauteng.

Maasai Women Development Organization (MWEDO)

Tanzania

The Maasai, the largest pastoralist ethnic group in Tanzania, has traditionally lived by a property system based on communal access rights and communal resources. When the government passed land reformation acts, they distributed land rights to men, reinforcing the discrimination against Maasai women, and leaving women vulnerable to a loss of essential resources when men sell the land without consulting women. MWEDO advocates for women's development in the context of the issues of poverty in pastoral communities, illiteracy, gender norms, and property ownership.

Action for Women and Awakening in Rural Environment (AWARE)
Uganda

AWARE was established in 1998, in the Kaabong district in the Northeast of Uganda, originally Kaabong Women's Group Organization in 1998. AWARE works with its paralegal volunteers and home-based care workers to reduce HIV-related stigma and to secure women's land rights. They employ several strategies, including Local-to-Local dialogues, rotating loans, civil literacy courses and a women's center.

Kamyokya Christian Caring Community (KCCC)
Uganda

KCCC is a faith-based, church-based organization, established in 1987, in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Twenty-one years later they are serving upwards of 10,000 HIV-positive clients. They are an independent NGO, who partners with UCOBAC. There are few employees and the majority of the staff is on a volunteer basis, and comprised mostly of women. KCCC's main focus is on clinical care for locals suffering from a range of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. One of the organization's main focuses is the Home-Based Care Alliance. KCCC has a Home-Based Care Giver Center, a school, a feeding center, and a treatment and care center. All of the services they offer are free and as a result they experience high demands, which are often difficult to meet.

Nakason-gologa
Uganda

Nakasongologa is a cooperative of 860 women, throughout nine districts of Uganda, and functions as an UCOBAC network member.

Slum Women Initiative for Development (SWID)

Uganda

Slum Women Initiative for Development (SWID) is a registered Ugandan NGO and a grassroots women's initiative group, with 550 members. They operate with a multi-level approach, including such activities as women's savings club, rotating loans scheme between workshops for women in leadership roles, Civil Literacy courses, business Management and Environmental Conservation techniques.

Uganda Community Based Association for Child Welfare (UCOBAC)
Uganda

UCOBAC was formed in 1990 in response to estimates of 1 million orphans in Uganda caused by the effects of the war, AIDS and other related factors. UCOBAC activities include: Promotion of information exchange in order to increase awareness of the public, NGOs, communities, and individuals about the plight, needs and rights of vulnerable children and women, through advocacy materials and networking; Influencing attitudes of communities in favor of children's and women's welfare; trainings for local NGOs, CBOs, district affiliates leaders and community leaders, in the areas of rights, needs, and development.

Justice for Widows and Orphans Project (JWOP)

Zambia

JWOP is a group made up of seven government and non-government organizations, with 9 support groups in different districts made up of widows and orphans in each. Their overall objective is to address property and inheritance rights and sustenance and livelihoods, using such strategies as Tribunals, Community Paralegals and case study publications and information dissemination.

Katuba Women's Association
Zambia

Katuba Women's Association was founded on the recognition that women's lives have to be transformed so as to engage them to improve and secure access to productive resources. Katuba Women's Association is a network of 42 different women's associations from Zambia. Several associations are engaged in income-generating activities, such as bread-making and wig-making. Katuba has worked with JWOP, who connected one women's organization to donors that assisted to build an orphans centre where orphans would learn and feed from.

Ntengwe for Community Development Trust

Zimbabwe

Ntengwe for Community Development Trust has set up support groups in the Binga and Ntengwe districts. Groups address issues such as: child/home based care, information collecting and report writing, counseling, HIV + AIDS, nutrition guidance, and property and inheritance rights. The organization seeks to reduce dependency on NGOs, which they feel are not adequately addressing women's rights to land ownership. Ntengwe helps women to develop skills including income generation and leadership/organizational skills.

Seke Rural Home Based Care
Zimbabwe

Seke Rural Home Based Care works within the Seke district of the Mashonaland province. Seke sets up workshops to train women in the use of basic inheritance laws so that they may learn to invoke legal processes in protecting land and property rights. The organization also provides assistance in handling individual property cases.

Women and Land in Zimbabwe (WLZ)

Zimbabwe

Women and Land in Zimbabwe (WLZ) was established in 1998 as a registered trust then known as Women Land Lobby Group. It is a network based organization made up of women's organizations, individual activists, and researchers. Currently, there are 16 network member organizations. WLZ was established to promote the economic empowerment of women through equitable access to, control and ownership of land and land related resources .This is aimed at achieving food and income security at both household and national level.