What we do
Equipping tomorrow’s leaders from within the network to challenge the status quo in their land rights struggles.
ILC seeks to empower and harness the potential of youth to bring about transformation towards people-centred land governance. In 2018, ILC launched the Leadership Programme in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean as a space for emergent women and men leaders from ILC grassroots organisations.
The programme aims to develop their skills to lead social change and take on leadership roles within their organisations and in the life and work of ILC. It also provides member organisations an opportunity to examine and renew their leadership methods, helping them become more resilient, effective and inclusive. A collective view of leadership, solidarity and gender justice are at the foundation of the programme.
Collective leadership is at the centre of our learning approach and consists of self, organisational and networking leadership.
Since 2018, the programme has gathered 130 people (54% women) from 90 member organisations in more than 40 countries, across five cohorts spanning Africa, Asia, EMENA and Latin America and the Caribbean.
The most recent cohort, in 2026, took the shape of the Interregional School of Young Pastoralists, ILC's response to the UN International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists.
Effective leadership has already emerged: fellows have gone on to sit on ILC's Governance Reform and Gender Oversight Committees, and in 2024 a fellow was elected as ILC's first youth representative to the Council. Youth-led networks born from the programme — including the ILC Youth Advisory Group, the Africa Youth Platform and the LAC Regional Youth Network — now advocate directly within the Coalition and in global spaces such as the UN Climate Change Conference and, most recently, UNCCD COP17.
Twenty-nine young pastoralists from across Africa, Asia, and EMENA have come together as part of the ILC Interregional School for Young Pastoralists 2026—a unique learning journey grounded in lived experience, leadership, and collective action.
Active members
De Kirguistán a la COP17: un llamado a la acción de los jóvenes pastores
10 agosto 2026
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La Coalición Internacional por la Tierra se une a la Alianza Global contra el Hambre y la Pobreza
27 julio 2026
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