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Developing gender‐equitable legal frameworks for land tenure

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2016
Global
Land & Gender
food security
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land rights
land tenure
sustainable development
women
This paper introduces a Legal Assessment Tool (LAT) for gender‐equitable land tenure that was developed by the Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the purpose of providing prompt, targeted and effective policy and regulatory advice to countries working towards gender‐equitable land tenure. The LAT aims to provide a contribution to the global efforts to achieve responsible governance of land tenure by focusing on the legal issues surrounding land policy and reform processes.
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A good practice on the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure: A multi-actor and multi-sector approach in Sierra Leone

Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2016
Sierra Leone
Land Conflicts
VGGT
gender equity in access to land
land governance
poverty
rural development
fisheries
forest land
land access
land conflicts
farmers
development agencies
In Sierra Leone, the well-being and livelihoods of many people, particularly the rural poor, are based on secure and equitable access to land, fisheries and forests. Increasing pressure on these resources in recent years has led to an escalation of conflict over access to natural resources.
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SYNTHESIS REPORT – GENDER & COLLECTIVELY HELD LAND

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Namibia, Ghana, Peru, Kyrgyzstan, China, Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land reform
land rights
land tenure
land use
sustainable development
women
GOOD PRACTICES AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM SIX GLOBAL CASE STUDIES
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GENDER AND KYRGYZ COMMUNITY PASTURE MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY

Reports & Research
March, 2016
Kyrgyzstan
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
gender equity in access to land
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
rangelands
women
Kyrgyz pastureland make up the majority of land mass in the country and are an important resource for most rural people, providing good opportunities for economic growth and poverty reduction. Kyrgyz pastureland reforms devolved management of pastures to local level pasture committees. This case study looks at promising practices and lessons learned from an intervention related to those reforms, that seeking to both promote community management of pasturelands and also promote the interests of women within those communities.
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Social Impacts of Protected Areas on Gender in West Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2016
Tanzania
Land & Gender
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
gender equity in access to land
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
women
In most cases, the establishment of protected areas (PAs) goes hand-in-hand with an increase in conservation costs to communities living adjacent to these PAs. This paper draws insights from gender theories in particular feminist political ecology approach to unravel the impact of PAs on men and women around the Kilimanjaro National Park (NP) and the Enduimet Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania. Specifically, it investigates how the creation and expansion of two PAs in Tanzania have impacted men and women in different ways.
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Building a Secure Future: Perceptions of Property Rights in India

Reports & Research
December, 2016
India
gender equity in access to land
tenant's rights
To understand more about people’s perceptions of the security of property rights, in India and in the rest of the world, we launched a series of surveys. The first survey was carried out with 14,000 respondents in 14 states across India. We plan to do similar research in other countries, building up to a global survey that will reveal similarities and differences between societies when it comes to people’s perceptions of property rights.
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Women and Land in Africa

The Cost of Corruption

Reports & Research
May, 2016
Zimbabwe, Ghana
Land & Corruption
corruption
customary land rights
gender equity in access to land
land inheritance rights
marital property rights
women
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Mind the Gap

Bridging the Divide between Land Policy and Practice. Securing women’s land rights through engendering the formalization process of customary land tenure in Uganda: Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children’s welfare

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2016
Africa, Uganda
Land & Gender
advocacy
customary land rights
customary tenure
gender equity in access to land
land access
land law
The 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda is one of the most gender sensitive constitutions in the world, with clear provisions for promoting and protecting the rights of women. This is also the case in relation to women’s land rights – the Constitution clearly vests land in the people of Uganda, including the rights of women to own and inherit land. Other land laws, including the Land Act, recognize and uphold women’s rights to land as individuals, and as part of a family or community.
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Gendered impact of commercial pressures on land

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2017
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agrarian reform
capital value (land)
common property
gender equity in access to land
land access
land rights
This gender study forms part of the International Land Coalition’s ‘Commercial Pressures on Land Initiative’ Global Study. As stated by the International Land Coalition (ILC), the goal of this initiative is to support the efforts of ILC members and other stakeholders to influence global, regional and national processes on land to enable secure and equitable access to land for poor women and men in the face of increasing commercial demand for land (ILC 2010a, emphasis added).
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Gender and equity questions in the policy and practice of involuntary resettlement due to the acquisition of land for large scale economic investments

A case study of two resettlement projects in Maputo Province, Mozambique

Reports & Research
January, 2017
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land access
land investments
The NGO Centro Terra Viva (CTV) with funding from the World Resources Institute (WRI) implemented a project seeking to promote gender mainstreaming in the policies and practice of large scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for economic investments. The study was centered on recognizing opportunities to strengthen the role and involvement of women as actors in decision-making in the resettlement process, particularly given the context of a growing economic and commercial appetite for land acquisition.