In March, the All China Women?s Federation (ACWF), a leading advocate of women?s rights in China, formally presented a proposal to China?s State Forest Administration and Ministry of Agriculture urging the central government to strengthen protection of women?s forestland rights. Landesa assisted in the proposal drafting process. While ACWF has proposed recommendations for improving gender equality in rural development and land legislation, this proposal officially marks the first time that forestland rights were included in an official ACWF proposal. The proposal called for scaled up efforts to formally register women?s land rights and equitable compensation for land acquisitions, clarity in co-ownership of rights to forest resources to ensure both men?s and women?s names are on the official title, and efforts to standardize implementation at the local level. Earlier this year, Landesa also assisted ACWF in drafting a policy proposal during the 18th annual session of the National People?s Congress and the Chinese Political Consultative Conference.