menu
Water, Land and Ecosystems

Amanda Richardson

Amanda Richardson is an attorney, land and gender specialist, and one of the cofounders of Resource Equity, an NGO that works to advance women’s rights to land and natural resources. Her work includes field and desk research, legal and policy analysis, and designing and implementing approaches for strengthening women’s land and resource rights.

Content authored by Amanda Richardson

  • Big Question: Responses

    Putting women’s land rights into context

    When talking about how to practically secure women’s property rights, it is important to be attuned to context: Which property? Which rights? Which barriers? To fully assess security, it is important to assess women’s rights across five dimensions: legitimacy, resiliency, durability, enforceability, and independence.