Country Coalition
Kenya
S4HL Kenya convening on International Day of Rural Women 2025.
GOAL
To accelerate the realization of women’s land rights in Kenya by ensuring the implementation of existing legal frameworks, shifting cultural attitudes, and empowering women to claim and defend their land rights.
MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
FOUNDED
November 2025
OVERVIEW
Women in Kenya continue to face exclusion from land ownership and decision-making. The main barriers are weak implementation of developed laws and entrenched patriarchal norms, which limit women’s participation in land governance, and retrogressive customary systems, leaving women vulnerable to land loss in times of widowhood, divorce, key decisions, and conflict, among others.
Grassroots women in rural Kenya face significant challenges due to land tenure insecurity, which directly affects their livelihoods, food security, and social standing. To ensure that laws and policies truly address the needs of rural women, it is essential to enhance their agency, leadership, and voices. Empowerment involves not only participation, but also the capacity for decision-making, access to relevant information, and the ability to contest injustices within both local and legal frameworks.
The Stand for Her Land Initiative in Kenya builds upon this legal and policy foundation, advancing the principle that women and men are equal and must have equal access to land and property rights. Achieving true land tenure security for women thus requires full implementation and enforcement of both international obligations and domestic laws, grounded in the lived realities of Kenyan women and communities.
S4HL Kenya Resources:
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Member Organizations
Landesa Kenya (Lead)
Kenya Land Alliance
Federation of Female Lawyers Kenya (FIDA)
Kituo cha Sheria
KELIN
Civil Society Network
Suba Mbita Paralegals
Northern Vision
Impact Kenya
Groots Kenya
We Effect
FIDIPA
Nation Media Group
CLAN
Habitat for Humanity
ILC
Shibuye Women Group
Huairou Commission
National Land Commission
Ministry of Land and Physical Planning
Department of Gender
EIWEN
Reconcile
LDGI
Indigenous Women Association
Patinaai Osim
KEFEADO
Kilimanjaro Initiative
Naitutu CBO
Ilaramatak Community Initiative
Koibatek Ogiek
9 individual grassroot women
Videos from S4HL Kenya
Interviews from participants at the Stand for Her Land Kenya Strategy Validation meeting (July 2025)
The Women’s Land Rights (WLR) Platform is an inclusive space for women across the world to share and document their experiences and perspectives around land rights.
We aim to use storytelling as an impactful tool for advocacy and movement building, while also mapping organizations across the world who are working in various sectors that intersect the WLR movement.
Featured Stories from Kenya
Louise Mukahigira
When Louise was widowed in 2005, her livelihood came under threat: her land was not registered, leaving her without secure rights to her land. Without her land, she would lose her food security and her income.
Rebecca Ogalo
Rebecca spent more than two decades fearing she could lose the land she depended on to raise her son, until a Landesa land clinic helped uncover the records needed to receive a land title in her name.
Joyce Taali
When a land seller denied Joyce Taali's right to property her late husband had purchased, she feared her family's future was slipping away. Through Landesa-supported mediation and legal guidance, she reclaimed hope and a pathway to secure her inheritance.