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Targeted Study on the Role of Customary Land Formalization in Women’s Economic Empowerment

Reports & Research
May, 2022
Tanzania, Global
Land & Gender
land documentation
land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
women
This report presents the results of a mixed-methods study on the role of customary land documentation in strengthening Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE). The overarching purpose was to help fill critical knowledge gaps on if and how strengthening women’s land rights via formalized customary land documentation affects their empowerment and economic growth, with a specific focus on women’s access to credit and other financial services, land investments and income opportunities.
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Land certification in Madagascar: formalizing (f)or securing?

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2014
Madagascar
land administration
land reform
land tenure
customary tenure
tenure security
Two major innovations have inter alia emerged from the land reform in Madagascar: (i)

decentralised land management through the creation of local land offices, and (ii)

certification, which enables individuals to register private property provided the community

agrees on the legitimacy of the claimed rights.

Despite the political crisis and the withdrawal of international aid during this period (2009 -

2013), new local land offices have been created, and now cover a third of the country’s
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Understanding the Opportunities and Barriers to Securing Customary Land Title in the Albertine Sub-Region, Uganda

Reports & Research
March, 2020
Uganda
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land register
land governance
land management
environment
deforestation
forest conservation
biodiversity
customary tenure
tenure security
The land sector in Uganda has attracted a great deal of attention associated with:
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Women’s land rights: Customary rules and formal laws in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia – complementary or in conflict?

Reports & Research
July, 2021
Ethiopia
Land & Gender
land administration
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
customary law
pastoral lands
agropastoral systems
land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
pastoral land rights
women
Land in Ethiopia is held by the state, who acts as a custodian for the Ethiopian people. Even though it is the state which controls land ownership, farmers and pastoralists are guaranteed a lifetime ‘holding’ right that provides rights to use the land, rent it out, donate, inherit and sharecrop it. Everything except sell and mortgage it. On paper and under existing formal laws, women have equal rights to men as far as use and control of and access to land is concerned.
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Land Matters II

Results from the Preliminary Impact Study of the ILGU Project’s work in Central Uganda

Reports & Research
April, 2021
Africa, Eastern Africa, Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
land administration
land documentation
land records
land register
cadastral register
cadastral administration
land titling
gender equity in access to land
food security
communal territory
land investments
land conflicts
land tenure
community land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
perception of tenure security
Improvement of Land Governance in Uganda (ILGU) is a project implemented by the German International Cooperation (GIZ), seeking to increase productivity of small-scale farmers on private Mailo land in Central Uganda, co-financed by the European Union and German Government through the German Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
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Webinar Report: The Role of Land Certification in Securing Women's Land Rights on Collective Lands

Reports & Research
January, 2020
Ethiopia, Uganda, Peru, Indonesia
Land & Gender
collective ownership
customary land rights
customary tenure
formal tenure
gender equity in access to land
land titling
tenure security
women
Evidence shows that women can benefit from having individualised land rights formalized in their names. However, similar evidence is not available for formalization of land rights that are based on collective tenure. Studies have estimated that as much as 65 percent of the world’s land is held under customary, collective-tenure systems. Improving tenure security for land held collectively has been shown to improve resource management and to support self-determination of indigenous groups.
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Webinar Report: Land in Post-Conflict Settings

Reports & Research
June, 2019
Uganda, Myanmar, Global
Land in post-conflict settings
land administration
cadastral administration
land governance
post-conflict settings
customary law
environment
natural resources management
land acquisitions
compulsory acquisitions
land grabbing
displacement
dispossession
land conflicts
land dispute
customary land rights
customary tenure
Post-war societies not only have to deal with continuing unpeaceful relations but also land-related conflict legacies, farmland and forest degradation, heavily exploited natural resources, land mines, a destroyed infrastructure, as well as returning refugees and ex-combatants. In the aftermath of war, access to and control of land often remains a sensitive issue which may precipitate tensions and lead to a renewed destabilization of volatile post-conflict situations.
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Customary Land Recognition: Zambian Approach to Documentation and Administration

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
common lands
common law
common property
common rights
commons
communal ownership
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
forest land
land administration
land rights
natural resources management
From January 15 to February 6, 2018, the USAID’s Tenure and Global Climate Change Program and Land Portal Foundation co-facilitated a dialogue on experiences of documenting household and community-level customary rights in Zambia. The dialogue brought together the perspectives of government, traditional leaders, practitioners, civil society, and academics to consider how customary land documentation can contribute to national development goals and increased service delivery in rural and peri-urban areas.
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Applying a Community-Based Approach to Tenure Formalization

A Case Study From Northern Mozambique

Reports & Research
May, 2018
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community land rights
customary tenure
land administration
land law
land registration
There is today a growing awareness of the importance of providing rural populations with more secure tenure to land and other natural resources, not least in Africa where approximately 90 percent of all land is still unregistered. At the same time there has been a rethinking of approaches for securing local tenure rights in practice. Experience has shown that the conventional approach, i.e., individual freehold titling, has often not worked well in areas where communal forms of customary tenure predominate, which is still the case in most parts of rural sub-Saharan Africa.
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Land Rights and Tenure Security in Zimbabwe’s post Fast Track Land Reform Programme

Reports & Research
March, 2011
Zimbabwe, Africa
land
customary tenure
freehold
land rights
land reform
title deeds
Includes learning from the commercial sector – freehold title deeds, pre-1980-2010; learning from Zimbabwean customary tenure systems; learning from the state resettlement programme – permit tenure, 1980-2010; fast track land reform, 2000-2010, policy implications and recommendations.