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February, 2016
Bangladesh, Honduras, Kenya, Chile, Peru, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Colombia, Rwanda, Morocco, South Africa, Malaysia, Dominican Republic, Madagascar, Italy, Saudi Arabia
Effective policy and legal advice requires a clear understanding of the gaps and discrepancies in the policies and legislation pertaining to gender and land. This paper introduces a Legal Assessment Tool (LAT) for gender-equitable land tenure, developed under the Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), for the purpose of providing prompt, targeted and effective policy and legal advice to countries working towards gender-equitable land tenure.