Abstract:
Womanity has decided to strategically accelerate gender equality and economic empowerment of women
in India by developing and supporting sustainable models that look at women's land rights pathways that
can be adapted and scaled across the country. The program focuses on increasing land literacy, women’s
land ownership and long-term land access to secure livelihoods for 50,000 women at the community
level. Womanity’s Theory of Change (ToC) Document outlines the rationale and the pathway to advance
gender equality and economic empowerment of women through sustainable models and strategic
interventions. Womanity has outlined three phases to reach 50,000 women – Build, Enhance and Scale.
In the Build phase, it seeks to identify challenges, evolve prototype sustainable models, measure
effectiveness and impact, support implements, invest in research, and develop a comprehensive evidence
plan. This learning document prepared by ISST contributes to the efforts of the Build phase of Womanity. The
objective of this document is to capture the learnings of the various partner organizations, key members
of the Womanity team, and the other stakeholders (referred as the Womanity ecosystem in India) in the
first 18 months of the project period, as well as their future learning needs. Through a thorough analysis
of the data collected over six months, a learning framework was expected to map all possible needs for
building knowledge and strengthening capacities within the Womanity ecosystem to effectively address
various WLR issues
