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

Reports & Research
May, 2022
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land documentation
land rights
land tenure
customary land rights
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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Growing the Field

A Collaborative Approach to Change

Reports & Research
January, 2023
Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, Colombia, Asia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Global
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rights in divorce
land governance
land inheritance rights
climate change
land rights
community land rights
smallholders
youth
women
Land rights are ascendant across the development sector. Movements addressing women’s empowerment, poverty, social justice, food security and climate change are all increasingly turning to land rights to strengthen their cause. In 2022, renowned philanthropist MacKenzie Scott joined these efforts by making an unprecedented $20 million investment in our work. Ms. Scott’s generous gift represents a profound endorsement of the power of land rights to improve the lives of women, men, and communities around the world.
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To What Extent Have Judicial and Non-Judicial Rulings Translated to the Success of Women’s Land Tenure in Western Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2021
Kenya
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land law
land tenure
tenure security
women
The findings of this study demonstrate that the despite the bouquet of land laws and other land reforms that have been put in place to make it easier for women to access land rights, both the formal and informal systems remain fraught with multiple extra-legal obstacles in the form of personal (family) security, social acceptance, economic empowerment, and land rights literacy, which hinders women’s’ realisation to women’s lands rights.
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Strategy to effectively engage women and vulnerable groups during SLLC

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
Land & Investments
women
land
tenure security
This study assesses the engagement of women and vulnerable groups (VGs) during the second level land certification (SLLC) process and how best to involve women and VGs to ensure their involvement and tenure security..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme. For more information;please check: https://landportal.org/community/projects/land-investment-transformation...
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Strategy for preventing and mitigating land certification-related violence against women and vulnerable groups

Reports & Research
September, 2017
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
land
women
women
This study examines how second level land certification (SLLC) is sensitive to the needs of women and vulnerable groups to gain an understanding of the positive and negative consequences of SLLC. It outlines how to mitigate land certification-related violence towards women and vulnerable groups..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.
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Challenges women and vulnerable groups face to secure their land use rights: LIFT programme response

Reports & Research
April, 2018
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
women
land rights
government
This paper highlights the challenges faced by women and other vulnerable groups in securing their land rights as identified by LIFTâ€™s different studies and anecdotal evidence from other projects and government undertakings..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme. For more information;please check: https://landportal.org/community/projects/land-investment-transformation...
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Proposal for short-term SDO intervention in non-SDO SLLC woredas

Reports & Research
July, 2019
Ethiopia
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
women
this proposal examines the potential negative consequences SLLC may have had on women and vulnerable groups in woredas where Social Development Officers (SDO) were not in post to engage with these groups and provides an approach to revisit a selected number of non-SDO woredas to rapidly identify and resolve disputes..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.
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Strategy to address legal constraints of women and vulnerable groups to secure their land rights

Reports & Research
September, 2019
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Forest Tenure
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
women
land use
This strategy assesses the gaps in the provision;understanding and implementation of laws/articles and their impact on women and vulnerable groups (VGs) with respect to land use rights and provides a strategy to overcome these legal constraints that affect women and VGs land rights security..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.
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Study of the to provide effective legal services for women and vulnerable groups

Reports & Research
January, 2019
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
women
land rights
This study examines and provides recommendations as well as practical;strategic interventions to enable women and VGs access legal aid services and secure their land rights..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme. For more information;please check: https://landportal.org/community/projects/land-investment-transformation...