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El Salvador: Technical assistance on women’s land agreements

IFAD women’s land rights project: Opportunities and challenges

Reports & Research
January, 2009
El Salvador
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land rights
research
rural development
women
Poor rural women are among the most vulnerable people in El Salvador, where the Reconstruction and Rural Modernization Programme was launched in 2003 to aid areas stricken by earthquakes two years earlier. Women’s land tenure was not initially a central theme of the programme. The issue had to be addressed, however, when women – a large segment of the target population – were unable to benefit from an investment fund for rural economic development because they had no access to land.
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UNDP Land Policy Briefs call for more research to address knowledge gaps on gender relations in land practices

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2008
Global
farmers
women
landlessness
agrarian reform
land rights
agriculture
rural development
land policies
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
environment
research
[via UNDP, 2008] These 4 Policy Briefs from UNDP show how increasing knowledge about gender relations and empowerment has highlighted the importance of access to and control over land within intra-household gender relations, and what this implies for broader concerns about empowerment of the poor. Moreover, significant knowledge gaps are also found in discussions on the link between land policies and cultural, territorial and gender empowerment issues.
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UN report : Secure Land Rights for All

UN Habitat

Reports & Research
January, 2008
Global
agrarian reform
land rights
agriculture
property law
rural development
land governance
food security
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
Report attached, published in 2008
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The FAO and its work on land policy and agrarian reform' outlines FAOs stance on gender and land rights

Legislation & Policies
Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2008
Global
farmers
women
agrarian reform
land rights
agriculture
rural development
food security
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
[September 2008]

Within this report, the FAO outlines its efforts to reinforce local institutions and promote policies and legislation that aim for fairer access for both women and men to natural resources (particularly land, water, fishing and forestry) and to the relevant economic and social resources.

It goes on to approach the reasons why land tenure should be taken into account in project design, highlighting ecological issues, questions of gender, conflict and migrations, and the relationships between them.
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Gendering Land Tools: Achieving secure tenure for women and men

January, 2009
Global
Land & Gender
advocacy
capacity development
customary law
gender equity in access to land
land management
land policies
property rights
research
This publication, from the Global Land Tool Network, presents a mechanism for effective inclusion of women and men in land tool development and outlines methodologies and strategies for systematically developing land tools that are responsive to both women and men’s needs. Equal property rights for women and men are fundamental to social and economic gender equality. However, women often face discrimination in formal, informal and customary systems of land tenure.
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Secure Land Rights for All

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2008
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
capacity development
continuum in land rights
gender equity in access to land
land policies
land rights
land tenure systems
tenure security
This publication on Secure Land Rights for All demonstrates how secure land rights are particularly important in helping to reverse three types of phenomena: gender discrimination; social exclusion of vulnerable groups; and wider social and economic inequalities linked to inequitable and insecure rights to land. It argues that policymakers should adopt and implement the continuum of land rights because, no single form of tenure can meet the different needs of all social groups.
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Políticas de Género e Feminização da Pobreza em Moçambique

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Mozambique
gender equity in access to land
poverty
A igualdade de género e o empoderamento das mulheres têm desde há muito feito parte da agenda internacional do desenvolvimento, e mais ainda desde a Conferência de Beijing em 1995 e da apresentação da noção de “integração do género” (UN/DAW 2008). A questão penetrou também nas políticas nacionais de desenvolvimento, tornando-se parte integrante da maioria dos planos de
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People and Forests in a time of Rapid Change (Strategic Plan 2008-2013)

Institutional & promotional materials
April, 2008
Global, South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
community forestry
forest management plans
forestry
gender equity
land governance
The Asia-Pacific region is experiencing rapid changes. There is a major need to strengthen capacities to assist countries and forestry stakeholders to respond in ways that benefit both people and forests.
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People, Forests, and Human Well-being: Managing Forests for People in a Period of Rapid Change

Reports & Research
April, 2008
South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agroforestry systems
climate change
community forestry
forest management plans
forestry
gender equity
land governance
Under present and foreseeable economic and social trends in the Asia-Pacific region, can we achieve sustainable forest management and better realize the potential of forests and forestry to contribute to improved human well-being?
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Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2008
Fiji, Global
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
discrimination
land governance
land rights
women
Fiji ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women in August, 1995. The initial report was submitted in 2000 and the Fiji delegation appeared before the UN CEDAW Committee of Experts for the constructive dialogue in 2002. Fiji has not submitted any report since. Therefore this document is the State combined 2nd, 3rd and 4th Periodic report and covers the period January 2003 to June 2008.