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Using Administrative Data for Monitoring and Improving Land Policy and Governance in India

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
India
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
open data
women
The study tried to assess the state of data in India, particularly to track and report two critical land governance indicators viz. women land rights and forest rights, critical to ensure equity and sustainability in terms of public policy.
With UN’s SDG, defining similar indicators, study also attempts in aligning them around SDG indicators. Status of these two parameters were analyzed using nation-wide datasets collecting whole population data, through census of India, Agriculture Census operations following robust processes and reporting them open access.
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Minutes of Technical Validation on Gender Equitable Land Governance Study in Odisha

Other legal document
August, 2015
India
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
women
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.
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Gender Equitable Land Governance in Odisha, India: An analysis through VGGT-Gender Lens

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2016
India
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land
women
VGGT
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.
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Administrative and Open Source Data for Monitoring Land Governance: Mapping Women Land Rights in the Context of UN’s SDG in India

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
India
Land & Gender
sources (land administration)
land information systems
agrarian reform
land
women
This paper was presented at the “2017 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY”, The World Bank - Washington DC. This paper provides a comparative appreciation of all the datasets especially the metadata and methodology along with a SWOT vis-à-vis reporting requirement of SDG indicator.
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Draft National Land Reforms Policy

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2013
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
agrarian reform
agricultural land management
agriculture
common lands
common property
displacement
forest land
housing rights
land acquisitions
land distribution
land law
land reform
land use
land-use planning
women
Chiefly an agricultural society, India has a strong linkage between land and social status of an individual. Nearly 70 % of its population dependent on land, either as farmers or farm laborers and it is imperative to address the issues of land ensuring livelihood, dignity and food security to millions of Indians. Land reform was a major policy initiative in the country in 1950s and early 1960s.
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THE HINDU SUCCESSION ACT, 1956

Legislation
June, 1956
India
Land & Food Security
co-ownership rights
land tenure
property rights
women
A legislation to amend and codify the law relating to intestate succession among Hindus. It deal with issues related to coparcenary property, interest in the property of a tarwad, tavazhi, kutumba, kavaru or illom, rules of succession in the case of males, succession among heirs, distribution of property among heirs in class I of the Schedule.
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Land and Governance under Fifth Scheduled Areas-An Overview of the law

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2016
India
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
customary law
community forestry
common lands
community land rights
land tenure systems
customary tenure
indigenous people's tenure
common property
Indigenous Peoples
women
This book made an attempt to bring together various legislative protections available to the tribals communities pertaining to the land and governance in the scheduled areas and the role of different institutions to achieve the goals enshrined in the Constitution. It examined the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution and its various provisions and special arrangements made for areas inhabited by Scheduled Tribes and the law relating to local self governance in these areas, primarily through village panchayat-an institution of local self governance.
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India Land & Development Conference 2017-Proceedings

Conference Papers & Reports
August, 2017
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
agriculture
common lands
customary tenure
land conflicts
land governance
land investments
land tenure
women

This report was prepared by Centre for Land Governance, NRMC, the Secretariat of India Land & Development Conference 2017. This report provides an overview of the proceedings of India Land & Development Conference, organized at India International Centre, New Delhi, India on April 5-6th 2017.

This report consists sharing of experiences, knowledge and practices over eight thematic sessions, two panel discussions and a special session.

Eight Sessions in the Conference are as follows:
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Women’s Right to Agricultural Land

Removing Legal Barriers for Achieving Gender Equality.

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2016
India
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
women
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.
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Women’s Inheritance Rights to Land and Property in South Asia

A Study of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Global
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
women
This study was undertaken by the Rural Development Institute for the World Justice Project. The study reviews the formal and customary laws and practices governing the rights of women to inherit land in six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The study includes an analysis of existing laws and customs and their impact on inheritance and land rights in all six countries. It also provides recommendations for how to design interventions that can attempt to improve women’s inheritance rights.