LandBridge International

The Problem: Today, less than 20% of landholders worldwide are women.

Why It Matters: The 2024 World Bank "Why Land and Property Rights Matter for Gender Equality" paper highlights that strengthening women’s rights to housing, land, and other physical property (known as “HLP”) has numerous positive impacts:

• Greater bargaining and decision-making power of women;
• reduced domestic violence;
• increased consumption;
• better child welfare; and
• the ability to transition to off-farm labor and income.

The What: Millions of women already have some recognized claim to land (customary ownership / offer letters / partial documentation), but they don’t cross the last mile to secure the strongest, usable bundle of rights—because of fees, paperwork, fear, time, mobility, literacy, social pressure, and process complexity.

Our role is to ensure that women who want land ownership are not excluded by barriers that systems routinely overlook.

The How: LandBridge works with trusted local partners inside active government titling programs to identify women who've opted in but face last-mile barriers—fees, documentation gaps, process complexity. We co-create beneficiary criteria and support approaches with those partners. We then fund the completion costs and provide partner support for navigation and verification. Government issues the title; we ensure vulnerable women aren't excluded at the final step.

Our model is simple in structure but respectful of complexity. Women’s barriers are real. Ignoring them doesn’t make systems scalable—it makes them exclusionary.