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| Founded | 1981[1] |
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| Founder | Roy Prosterman |
| Type | Non-operating private foundation (IRS exemption status): 501(c)(3) |
| Focus | Land rights, Women's rights, Ending poverty |
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Key people | Chris Jochnick, President and CEO Roy Prosterman, Founder and chairman Emeritus Tim Hanstad, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor |
| Website | www.landesa.org |
Landesa Rural Development Institute is a nonprofit organization that works with governments and local organizations to obtain legal land rights for poor families. Since 1967, Landesa has helped more than 180 million poor families in 50 countries gain legal control over their land.
Landesa partners with governments, world leaders, NGOs, foundations, donor agencies such as the World Bank, USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and others to design and implement land laws, policies and programs that provide opportunity, further economic growth, and promote social justice through land rights.[2][3]
Headquartered in Seattle, Landesa has program offices in Beijing, China; Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Kolkata, Lucknow, and Patna, India; Yangon, Myanmar; and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Landesa currently works in China, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Rwanda, and Tanzania.
- ^ "Our History"
- ^ "The World Bank teams up with Landesa on land rights in China". Landesa. October 10, 2011. Archived from the original on August 16, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
- ^ Boudreaux, Karol C. (November–December 2012). "USAID FRONTLINES: In One Kenyan Town, It's No Longer Just Old Wise Men". USAID. Archived from the original on June 22, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2022.