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Nature, Wealth and Power

Emerging Best Practice for Revitalizing Rural Africa

Reports & Research
January, 2002
Africa, Eastern Africa
agriculture
land area
natural resources management
This document is about rural development in Africa. It is a preliminary statement of lessons learned from more than 20 years of natural resource–based development in rural Africa and it presents principles and action steps that can serve as a guide to investment there. While the fate of Africa’s natural resources cannot be separated from the broader context of economic and development challenges, neither can Africa’s economic and development future be separated from the management of its natural resources.
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Women’s Inheritance and Property Rights: A Vehicle to Accelerate Progress Towards the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals - Paper N. 13

Reports & Research
January, 2009
Ethiopia
women
land rights
property law
legal empowerment
gender equity in access to land
Strengthening women's inheritance and property rights can be an effective means of decreasing poverty and increasing gender equality, and thereby accelerating progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This paper presents two case studies from Rwanda and Ethiopia to illustrate the potential impact that advocacy, legislative reform and law enforcement in this area can have on the achievement of the MDGs in developing countries.
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Listen to Us: Land Ownership and Property Control

Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice

Reports & Research
January, 2006
Kenya
local communities
women
land rights
gender equity in access to land
This report presents strategies of grassroots women's organisations in Eastern and Southourn Africa in working toward land tenure security, including home-based care and counselling, increased participation of women in government bodies, raising awareness about land issues, providing support for women's legal procedures, increasing economic security through skill development and microcredit loans as well as leadership development. The report concludes by giving some recommendations for increased effectiveness and scope for these grassroots activities.
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Voices of women s aspirations over land and land matters: the case of Kibaale District, Uganda

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Uganda
women
land rights
advocacy
gender equity in access to land
This study documents women’s aspirations in relation to land in Kibaale district, Uganda. The study was designed to identify the gaps between those aspirations and the current reality, the actions required for their achievement, and the implications of those actions. Based on qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, information was gathered from 60 women belonging to the two villages, Nyanacumu and Kanywamiyaga, in the sub-county of Muhorro in Kibaale district. Researchers used appreciative inquiry, participant observation, narratives, focus groups, photos and video recording.
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From Being Property of Men to Becoming Equal Owners? Early Impacts of Land Registration and Certification on Women in Southern Ethiopia

Reports & Research
January, 2008
Ethiopia
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land rights
property law
Traditionally, the land tenure system in Southern Ethiopia may be characterised by patrilineal inheritance and virilocal residence. Young girls have very little influence over when and whom to marry. Further, they have to go to a husband that their clan or family has identified for them, meaning that they after marriage move to the home of their new husband and inherit no land from their parents. Bride prices and dowries are commonly used, and girls are seen as the property of the husband and his clan. This also implies that if the husband dies, his wife is still the property of his clan.
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Update 2010: Rural women’s access to land and property in selected countries

Progress towards achieving the aims of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Kenya
women
land rights
advocacy
gender equity in access to land
In 2004, FAO, IFAD, and the International Land Coalition (ILC) jointly published a report on progress towards the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), with respect to the status of rural women. This report provided an historical background to CEDAW and its Optional Protocol (OP 1999) as well as an overview on land issues as reflected in the reports submitted by States Parties.
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A field not quite of her own. Single women's access to land in communal areas of Zimbabwe

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
women
land rights
Dominant arguments about women’s land access stress the vulnerability of single women’s land rights in customary tenure areas. The vulnerability is based on long-held assumptions about customary tenure land governance, land use and gender relations. The paper seeks to contribute to the debate on customary tenure area land access, landlessness and understanding customary tenure evolution. Although single women have increasingly insecure tenure on customary tenure lands, in those systems spaces exist for single women to negotiate access to land.
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Complementing the state: the contribution of the watchdog groups in protecting women's land rights in Gatundu District, Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya
legal empowerment
women
In the experience of GROOTS Kenya, HIV-positive widows are often thrown out of their matrimonial homes, their land grabbed by in-laws as they are blamed for their husbands’ deaths and/or feared to die within a short period of time. Due to a lack of awareness on land rights, as well as the importance of retaining legal documents to lodge court cases, the ability of widows and orphans to control land and other family assets in Gatundu district is threatened.
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Women’s gains from the implementation of succession law in Uganda: voices from Wakiso and Mpigi districts

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Uganda
women
Poverty, particularly among female-headed households in Uganda, is strongly related to lack of access to and ownership of productive resources. Recent land reform necessitates inquiry to determine whether it has improved women’s marginalized status with regard to land ownership and access.
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Land Rights Documents from the Uganda Land Alliance

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Reports & Research
January, 2011
Uganda
land
land rights