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   On Equal Ground: Promising Practices for Realizing Women’s Rights in Collectively Held Lands

   Reports & Research

   February, 2021

   Africa, Mexico, Indonesia

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Gender

   gender equity

   gender equity in access to land

   development

   sustainable development

   land tenure

   common rights

   community land rights

   group tenure arrangements

   commons

   collective ownership

   land tenure systems

   common property

   local communities

   women

   Sustainable land governance requires that all members of a community, both women and men, have equal rights and say in decisions that affect their collectively-held lands. Unfortunately, women around the world have less land ownership and weaker land rights than men – but this can change, and this report shows ways how that can be done.