The animosity created during land contestations makes it impossible for widows, wives and mothers to peacefully settle land claims and use their land. The research evidence provides a platform to advocate for a transformative agenda to improve rural poor women’s access to and control over land and other natural resources. This includes building linkages with the wider advocacy relationships and programmes of International Land Coalition (ILC - www.landcoalition.org).
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010Kenya, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa
The aim was to analyze the obstacles to, and opportunities for women’s access to land, with emphasis on the identification of more effective strategies in improving the security of women’s land rights. This report is a programme evaluation including lessons learned. Case studies drawn from the advocacy project are attached as Annexes.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010Uganda
The marginalization of women with regard to property ownership has hampered efforts for poverty alleviation and the improvement of livelihoods. In Uganda, current institutionalization of land reform necessitates inquiry, to determine whether women’s status has changed under new provisions. The Succession Act makes some helpful provisions but also presents loopholes, which can be exploited by illegitimate claimants.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010Kenya, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa
The aim is for participants to develop an innovation plan focused on advocacy for women’s access to and control over land, employing ideas and tools acquired during the Learning Route of the International Land Coalition (ILC - www.landcoalition.org) programme. Four proposals for innovation plans are provided as examples.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2014Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa
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A SURVEY OF IDP RETURN AND RESETTLEMENT ISSUES AND LESSON: ACHOLI AND LANGO REGIONS
Reports & ResearchFebruary, 2008UgandaThis is the second in a series of land studies for northern Uganda, whose core objective is to inform the Plan for Recovery and Development of Northern Uganda (PRDP) and the National Land Policy. It builds on the work of the first phase conducted in Teso region to present a more quantitative analysis of trends on disputes and claims on land before displacement, during displacement and emerging trends or occurrences on return for Acholi and Lango sub-regions.
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Evaluating Responses to Domestic Land Grabbing in Northern Uganda
Reports & ResearchMay, 2014UgandaUnfolding analysis reveals two types of land disputes prevalent in postwar northern Uganda: cases that involve a legitimate cause of action and those that do not.1 Since mediation and alternative forms of dispute resolution rely on parties’ willingness to negotiate in good faith, cases featuring ‘bad faith’ and land grabbing—where powerful parties intentionally exploit another person’s vulnerability in order to illegally2 claim land—pose a serious challenge for local land dispute mediators. Such mediators must wrestle with whether and how to remain neutral in the face of injustice.
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Critical Dimensions of Women‟s Access to Land and Relations in Tenure in East Africa
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2007Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, UgandaThis scoping study on women's access to land in East Africa sets up a conceptual framework in which to consider issues of women's land tenure and identifies key aras for future research as well as key actiors toward increased jender equity in land rights.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Uganda
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Eastern Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
The importance of land to poor people’s livelihoods cannot be over emphasized. Land provides the foundation upon which people construct and maintain livelihoods. Consequently, secure access to land is a prerequisite for securing livelihoods. Women are the majority of the poor as they have limited access to social and economic resources. This increases their dependence on basic resources like land. The majority of women rely on a land based livelihood mainly as subsistence agricultural producers.
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