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Land Corruption in Africa in 3 Topics

Reports & Research
September, 2019
Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Ghana
Land & Corruption
compulsory acquisitions
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
eviction
gender equity in access to land
land conflicts
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land inheritance rights
legal empowerment
marital property rights
women
From July 17 to August 7, 2019, the Land Portal Foundation, the African Land Policy Center, GIZ and Transparency International Chapters in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda co-facilitated the dialogue Land Corruption in Africa addressing the role of traditional leaders in customary land administration, forced evictions as a form of land corruption and its Impact on women’s land rights and an analysis of alternative dispute resolution systems in addressing land corruption.
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Women's perceptions of tenure security

Evidence from 33 Countries

Reports & Research
March, 2019
Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon, Namibia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Jordan, United Kingdom
gender equity in access to land
land tenure
land tenure systems
property rights
tenure security
women
This report uses household-level data from 33, mostly developing, countries to analyse perceptions of tenure insecurity among women. We test two hypotheses: (1) that women feel more insecure than men; and (2) that increasing statutory protections for women, for instance by issuing joint named titles or making inheritance law more gender equal, increases de facto tenure security.
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To Have and to Hold: Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Reports & Research
January, 2004
Kenya, Zambia, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
Land & Gender
property
land rights
women
What are the links between HIV/AIDS and women's property rights in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? This paper asks if women's lack of rights increases household poverty and their own vulnerability to infection, and if securing these rights can reduce the impacts of the epidemic on poverty. The paper notes that gender inequality in land ownership is common in SSA, due to male preference in inheritance, male bias in state programmes of land distribution, and gender inequality in the land market.
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Zambia Land Alliance Submission to Constitutional Review Commission

Reports & Research
November, 2004
Zambia, Africa
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land
women
A series of submissions by the Zambia Land Alliance on these topics: land as a right; women’s rights to land; vestment and administration of land; conversion of customary land to leasehold tenure; land and the environment; land information; mode of adoption of the Constitution.
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Women’s Land Rights in Zambia: Policy Provisions, Legal Framework and Constraints

Reports & Research
May, 2002
Zambia, Africa
Land & Gender
land
land rights
women
Examines policy and legal reforms in the 1990s; strengths of the 1995 Lands Act and civil society concerns about it; policy framework; Lands Tribunal; women’s constraints in customary land, alienation of land, inheritance and accessing urban land, government attempts to promote women’s access and control over land; conclusions and future challenges.
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Gender Equality and land administration: the case of Zambia

Reports & Research
February, 2014
Zambia, Africa
Land & Gender
land policies
land
customary law
land administration
land tenure
land rights
land ownership
women
Paper discusses Zambia’s dual land tenure system, the ways in which gender issues have been incorporated in legal and policy documents, and the extent to which this has been reflected in practice. It also examines the role of donors in legal and policy processes and donor support to civil society in relation to women’s land rights. Gender and land policies provide for the allocation of land to women, but have little impact on the ground. Customary law is on the whole discriminatory against women, in particular with regard to land ownership.
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Women’s Land Rights in Southern Africa: Consolidated baseline findings from Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Reports & Research
October, 2009
Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Africa
Land & Gender
land
land rights
farmers
women
Includes the legal and policy situation relating to women’s land rights in Southern Africa; women farmers speak out on which land rights are being enjoyed, or not; potential springboards to the realisation of women’s land rights; baseline trends and key conclusions; recommended action points.
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The Impact of National Land Policy and Land Reform on Women in Zambia

Reports & Research
November, 2010
Zambia, Africa
Land Conflicts
Land & Gender
land
land dispute
land grabbing
land law
land rights
land reform
title deeds
women
Includes background to women’s land rights in Zambia; policy and legal reforms of the1990s; key findings – gender insensitivity on land laws and policies, the high cost of legal fees to handle land disputes, the limited benefits of title deeds for women, lack of awareness on land policy process, land grabbing and disinheritance, lack of security of tenure, lack of access to justice; conclusions and recommendations.
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Gender equality and land administration

The case of Zambia

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Zambia
Land & Gender
expropriation
farm tenancy
indigenous peoples' lands
land administration
land dispute
women
Land, and in particular agricultural land, is central to livelhoods in rural Zambia. Zambia is characterised by a dual legal system of customary and statutory law and by dual land tenure, with state land and customary land. A first wave of socialist-oriented reforms took place after independence in 1964, which abolished previously existing freehold land in favour of leasehold. Subsequent changes in government policies under the influence of structural adjustment programmes and a new government in 1991 paved the way for a market-driven land reform.
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Zambia

Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Rural Transformation

Reports & Research
March, 2017
Africa, Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
customary land rights
customary law
development
land conflicts
women
Despite extensive research into rural development in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about structural transformation1 in rural areas on the continent. Zambia was chosen as one of three case study countries2 in order to identify and to analyse rural transformation processes and their main influencing forces aiming at defining strategies and measures to influence such processes towards social inclusiveness and environmental sustainability until 2030.
Zambia shows a persisting copper-dependent mono-structure with selective transformation processes