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State of open data

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2019
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
environment
gender equity
government
infrastructure
land ownership
private sector
It’s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programs and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement enters a new phase in its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice, big questions still remain.
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Local solutions gain ground in East Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity
land reform
land tenure
In Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya, a decentralized approach to land administration promises more accessible dispute resolution and a better deal for women. Among the challenges however, are old social attitudes that pre-empt discussion about women’s right to control land. In Lira district, for example, in-laws and land-grabbers routinely chase widows off land. A “viciously vibrant land market” often means that women are swindled in Bugunda district.
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In focus - Women and Land - IDRC Conversations with activists, leaders, and researchers on women's land rights

Africa, Eastern Africa
gender equity in access to land
land rights
women
[From Youtube.com] In September 2010, in Nairobi, Kenya, IDRC hosted the policy symposium, Gendered Terrain: Women's Rights and Access to Land in Africa. At this symposium, researchers from across Africa shared their findings and engaged with policymakers. These 11 short videos present valuable insight from some of the symposium's participants.
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Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2007
Global
gender equity in access to land
land governance
women
This book explores the meanings of gender justice and the practice of citizenship as shaped by context-specific histories, cultures and struggles. It presents a conceptual framework and provides four regional perspectives and a guideline for development programs. The section on Sub-Saharan Africa in particular focuses on the the definition of citizenship in the female experience as more than simply a formal relationship between the individual and the State, but also involving her position in a family, a community and an ethnic group.
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Land Tenure, Gender and Globalisation

Research and Analysis from Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2010
Cameroon
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
forestry
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land grabbing
land rights
women

Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people’s responses to it.