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    Grassroots Women Forge Deeper Relationships with Researchers at IDRC Conference "Gendered Terrain: Women's Access to Land in Africa"

    September, 2010
    Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda
    land
    property
    women

    In a groundbreaking symposium on women's access to land in Africa, with mostly researchers and institutional officials as attendees, the Huairou Commission delegation provided a unique community-based perspective. The Huairou Commission delegation of 12 grassroots women leaders from Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa participated in two important panels, "Promoting Security of Tenure and Land Rights for Women in Urban Areas" and "Grassroots Women's Practices on Land Access and Control".

  4. Library Resource

    Do Shocks Affect Men's and Women's Assets Differently? A Review of Literature and New Evidence for Bangladesh and Uganda

    June, 2012
    Bangladesh, Uganda
    property
    women

    This background paper attempts to expand our understanding of the gender-differentiated impact of shocks on assets through a literature review on shocks and gendered asset dynamics and an analysis of new panel data (2007 and 2009) from Uganda and Bangladesh looking at the impact of negative shocks and positive events on men's and women's assets. We take advantage of detailed assets and shocks modules to disaggregate the type of shock between covariate and idiosyncratic shocks and types of assets according to ownership (joint, husband's, and wife's assets).

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    Land tenure Security in selected countries: Synthesis Report

    Reports & Research
    February, 2014
    Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia
    community land rights
    continuum in land rights
    customary tenure
    displacement
    eviction
    indigenous peoples' land rights
    land access
    land policies
    land rights
    open access (land)
    tenure security
    sustainable development
    women

     It is well recognized that secure land and property rights for all are essential to reducing poverty because they underpin economic development and social inclusion. Secure land tenure and property rights enable people in urban and rural areas to invest in improved homes and livelihoods. Although many countries have completely restructured their legal and regulatory framework related to land and they have tried to harmonize modern statutory law with customary ones, millions of people around the world still have insecure land tenure and property rights.

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    Property Grabbing from Ugandan Widows and the Justice System

    A mixed-methods assessment in Mukono County, Uganda

    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Uganda
    Land & Gender
    Land & Investments
    gender equity in access to land
    land grabbing
    land law
    land policies
    land tenure systems
    property rights
    tenure security
    women

    In a first study of this kind, International Justice Mission has used mixed methods assessment to portray the depth of widow and orphan property grabbing problem and lack of justice system response in Mukono County, Uganda. The report demonstrates that nearly a third of widows have experienced land grabbing with virtually no criminal justice system response.

  9. Library Resource

    Costing the Gender Gap

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa
    Land & Gender
    Land & Food Security
    land
    food security
    poverty
    women
    farmers

    In sub-Saharan Africa women comprise a large proportion of the agricultural labor force, yet they are consistently found to be less productive than male farmers. The gender gap in agricultural productivity-measured by the value of agricultural produce per unit of cultivated land-ranges from 4-25 percent, depending on the country and the crop.1 The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab, UN Women, and the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative jointly produced a report to quantify the cost of the gender gap and the potential gains from closing that gap in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

  10. Library Resource
    Digging deep: The impact of Uganda’s land rush on women’s rights cover image

    Digging deep: The impact of Uganda’s land rush on women’s rights

    Reports & Research
    March, 2018
    Uganda
    Land & Gender
    control rights
    gender equity in access to land
    land access
    land ownership
    women

    Land – its access, control and ownership – lies at the heart of power relationships within Uganda. The struggle for land is deeply intertwined with the struggle for women’s rights. Women’s access to and control over resources and economic decision making is fundamental to the achievement of their rights. Despite some progress, inequality between women and men in ownership and control of land remains stark. Women’s rights organisations (WROs) in Uganda have identified changing patterns of land use as a major problem affecting women across the country.

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