Giving Compass' Take:

• Gina Alvarado, a Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor at Landesa, explains how land rights for women is a #Solvable issue through her research on gender-equitable policies over access to women's assets.

• What are some of the major barriers for women to access land rights?

• Read about land rights activism in rural India.

Awarding land rights to women is #Solvable. Gina Alvarado explains how legal reforms and challenging gender norms can help to change existing laws and enable women to have land rights.

Gina Alvarado is a Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor at Landesa, which partners with governments and local organizations to ensure that rural men and women living in extreme poverty have secure rights over the land they depend on. Dr. Alvarado has over 15 years of experience conducting research to strengthen and scale-up policies, tools, and approaches for gender-equitable access to economic assets and services with special emphasis on key populations, women, and youth.

Read the full article about land rights for women at The Rockefeller Foundation.