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  1. Library Resource
    Securing Women Land Rights - Transforming Power Relations

    Securing Women Land Rights - Transforming Power Relations

    Institutional & promotional materials
    March, 2022
    Ethiopia, Madagascar, Uganda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Laos, Global
    Land & Gender
    land equity
    gender equity
    gender equity in access to land
    equal rights
    land stakeholders
    legal empowerment
    farmers
    development agencies
    local communities
    women

    This brochure provides an overview of the Gender Narrative of the Global Programme Responsible Land Policy (GPRLP) implemented by the German Development Cooperation Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It lays out the programme's vision, motivation and approach to ensure equal life prospects for all genders.

     

    For more information on the Global Programme: Global Programme Responsible Land Policy | Land Portal.

  4. Library Resource

    Building resilience through community forestry: RECOFTC annual report, 2017-2019

    Institutional & promotional materials
    May, 2020
    Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia
    Forest Landscape Restoration
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Gender
    Land Conflicts
    Land in post-conflict settings
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    agroforestry systems
    capacity development
    climate change
    community forestry
    conflicts
    forest management plans
    forestry
    gender equity
    land governance
    land rights
    land tenure

    Read RECOFTC’s digital annual report, “Building resilience through community forestry.” This report covers the period October 2017 to September 2019.

  5. Library Resource

    The Value of Cultural Theory for Participatory Processes in Natural Resource Management

    Reports & Research
    May, 2012
    Indonesia, Global, South-Eastern Asia
    Forest Landscape Restoration
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Gender
    agroforestry systems
    capacity development
    community forestry
    forest management plans
    gender equity

    While participation is seen as an important part of sustainable natural resource management, it is not always successful – a number of studies to date indicate conflicting values and power inequalities can significantly undermine participatory processes. A new paper in the Journal of Forest Policy and Economics examines another source of conflict: differing views of reality and underlying cultural biases.

  6. Library Resource

    Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders

    Manuals & Guidelines
    January, 2007
    Global
    gender equity in access to land
    advocacy
    women

    A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders is aimed to help women human rights defenders name the specific risks, violations and constraints they face in their work.  It presents a practical discussion of the useful mechanisms developed by the state and also the civil society to provide redress and remedy, and to protect women human rights defenders.  It is intended to be used by human rights and other organisations to further a gender perspective in the monitoring and documentation of human rights. 

  7. Library Resource

    GTZ's Land Use Planning Methods, Strategies and Tools

    These guidelines from the Working Group on Integrated Land Use Planning (WGLUP) are a further step in developing an approach to gender-sensitive land use planning (LUP) within the framework of development co-operation

    Training Resources & Tools
    January, 1999
    Global
    gender equity in access to land
    rural development
    property law
    agriculture
    natural resources management
    land rights
    capacity development
    farmers
    women

    [adapted from GTZ] 1999- More than one hundred technical co-operation projects on three continents supported by the various technical departments of GTZ were involved in this discussion on Land Use Planning, paying specific attention to gender and women’s promotion through its pilot program “Gender and Women’s Promotion”.

  8. Library Resource
    Booklet Just transition call for action on mining in South Africa

    Just Transition Open Agenda May 2022

    Institutional & promotional materials
    May, 2022
    South Africa
    Land & Investments
    gender equity
    sustainable development
    environment
    land degradation
    mining
    advocacy

    From 24 to 26 November 2020, the three organisations comprising the Life After Coal campaign, Earthlife Africa (Johannesburg), the Centre for Environmental Rights and ground Work, met virtually to develop a shared Open Agenda on the Just Transition. We used the Open Agenda for a Just Transition - developed at the National Coal Exchange in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, in July 2019 - as a starting point.

  9. Library Resource
    Droits de propriété foncière des communautés locales et populations autochtones en République du Congo

    Droits de propriété foncière des communautés locales et populations autochtones en République du Congo

    Instruments de droit international et législation nationale applicables en République du Congo

    Reports & Research
    July, 2020
    Congo
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    land titling
    gender equity in access to land
    land governance
    land classification
    indigenous peoples' lands
    land rights
    property rights
    legal empowerment
    Indigenous Peoples
    local communities

    Ce rapport présente et analyse les dispositions internationales et nationales encadrant les droits de propriété foncière des communautés locales et populations autochtones en République du Congo.

    Il s'agit d'un document à but éducatif visant à améliorer l'accès et la compréhension des lois congolaises.

  10. Library Resource

    Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

    International Conventions or Treaties
    January, 1979
    Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Canada, United States of America, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China, Japan, Mongolia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Croatia, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga
    Land & Gender
    gender equity in access to land
    land rights
    advocacy
    farmers
    women

    The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) - currently ratified by 187 countries - is the only human rights treaty that deals specifically with rural women (Art. 14). Adopted in 1979 by the United Nations Generally Assembly, entered into force in 1981. The Convention defines discrimination against women as follows:

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