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   BRIDGE Report 52: Environmentally Sustainable Development and Poverty: A Gender Analysis

   Reports & Research

   October, 1997

   Global

   Land & Gender

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   development

   sustainable development

   environment

   land rights

   poverty

   rural development

   How would environmentally sustainable development look if it was gender-sensitive? This report argues that much mainstream literature on environmentally sustainable development has ignored the gender dimensions. Where women have been the target of programmes, they have been seen as natural managers of environmental resources. A gender analysis is important because gender relations affect the ways in which poor men and women manage natural resources.

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   Gender and Citizenship: Supporting Resources Collection

   Training Resources & Tools

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   January, 2004

   Slovenia, Liechtenstein, Bangladesh, Slovakia, El Salvador, Croatia, Chile, Zimbabwe, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Australia, Tanzania, Poland, India, Brazil, Czech Republic, Eastern Europe, Global, Central America, Eastern Africa, South America, Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Caribbean, Southern Asia, Central Asia

   Land & Gender

   land rights

   rural development

   Citizenship is an abstract concept and therefore great care must be taken in explaining what it means in practice and what can effectively be done in the context of development interventions and policy. Development projects which enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship. Citizenship is about concrete institutions, policy and structures and the ways in which people can shape them using ideas of rights and participation.

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   Land reform and sustainable livelihoods in South Africa's Eastern Cape province

   January, 2003

   South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

   land

   land tenure

   poverty

   rural development

   land reform

   This paper examines the experiences of implementation of land reform policies in the Eastern Cape through a series of case studies.It looks at how attempts at redistribution, restitution and land tenure reform have resulted in a variety of models and approaches.

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   Rural development, institutional change and livelihoods in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a case study of Mdudwa Village

   January, 2003

   South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

   development

   land

   rural development

   This paper looks at the case of Mdudwa village in the Eastern Cape to explore the processes and impacts of democratic decentralisation.

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   Land theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

   January, 2000

   South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa

   land reform

   land

   rural development

   land tenure

   This paper examines the challenges of institutional, organisational and policy reform around land in Southern Africa. It analyses the land situation in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and identifies key issues for further research in each of these countries.
   Findings include:

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   Só para o Inglese ver: the policy and practice of tenure reform in Mozambique

   January, 2003

   Mozambique, Sub-Saharan Africa

   land registration

   poverty

   rural development

   land tenure

   This paper examines the fundamentals of Mozambican land policy from a livelihoods perspective and identifies considerable potential for improving the sustainability of rural livelihoods and the flexibility and cost effectiveness of policy instruments aimed at increasing security of tenure.The paper examines the impact of the cancellation of private land applications in one province, and argues that, notwithstanding the apparent official reluctance to implement this element of the policy, the impact has been almost wholly beneficial for local community groups.Challenges to land policy framew