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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2006
    India

    The study is based on the premise that it is important for women to have effective rights in land and it studies the land rights of women in Tripura, a state in north-east India. The study assesses the extent to which the women of Tripura enjoy effective rights in land and suggests measures for enhancing the effective rights in land that are presently enjoyed by the women of the state.

    The research study was carried out by the Tripura Commission for Women and was sponsored by the National Commission for Women, New Delhi.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2012
    India

    The study on Property Rights of women in Tamil Nadu covers the property rights of Women belonging to various religious groups- Hindu, Muslims, Christians, Parsis and in particular Tribal Women of Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu. In this light, the current study is an attempt to comprehend the inheritence patttern of interstate property wuth a descriptive succession. 

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2014
    India

    This paper focuses on the enforcement of proprietary rights of women by the Indian courts and their endeavor to interpretlegislation in favour of marginalized women. 

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    India

    To understand more about people’s perceptions of the security of property rights, in India and in the rest of the world, we launched a series of surveys. The first survey was carried out with 14,000 respondents in 14 states across India. We plan to do similar research in other countries, building up to a global survey that will reveal similarities and differences between societies when it comes to people’s perceptions of property rights. 

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2003
    India

    This document is the culmination of a year-long exercise of a community-led process for ground truthing the violations of environmental conditions laid out in the Coastal Regulation Zone approval for a large infrastructure, coal handling and port facility in the Mundra region of Kutch district in the western Indian state of Gujarat. It presents compelling data on the nature of the violations, many of which were anticipated when local community members objected to the Waterfront Development Project (WFDP) of the Adani group in the region.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2012
    India

    This paper undertakes a critical analysis of issues related to women in agriculture in India with a view to provide directions to UN Women for future programmatic interventions and policy advocacy to address the gender gaps in agriculture.

  7. Library Resource

    Removing Legal Barriers for Achieving Gender Equality.

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    June, 2016
    India

    Women’s land rights (WLR) have been and continue to be a live agenda in social development discourse of India. The importance of WLR has been discussed in the context of agriculture; poverty reduction; reduction in gender based violence; women’s well-being and agency.This policy brief outlines the gaps that exist in the realisation of women’s land rights on agricultural land and calls for immediate collective action aimed at removing the structural barriers in inheritance, leasing, and joint ownership of privately held land in favour of women.

  8. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 2016
    India

    This paper analyzes the state’s Land Governance in terms of the five themes for
    administrators, technicians and professionals working in the land sector as per the gender-framework of FAO’s VGGT along with an additional theme on community perspectives on women land rights, and recommends strategies for moving towards it.

  9. Library Resource
    Other legal document
    August, 2015
    India

    This workshop was orgainized at Bhubaneswar, India by Center for Land Governance, NRMC, Bhubaneswar with support of The World Bank, New Delhi. In this workshop salient findings on processes and progress made around gender equitable land tenure arrangements, best practices and challenges along with ground-happenings and post –land rights situations captured through community and stakeholders opinions were shared.

  10. Library Resource
    Monitoring Framework for WLR in India
    Manuals & Guidelines
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2016
    India

    This monitoring framework prepared by Center for Land Governance, NRMC, Bhubaneswar with the support of The World Bank, New Delhi which envisages on reliable and accessible appropriate data set, well laid out procedure to calculate and report Women Land Rights (WLR) indicators across administrative layers as well as an institutional mechansim to sustainably carry out this process to address regular monitoring of WLR in Indian context to meet the SDG requirement.

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