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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2010
    Zambia, Africa

    Includes background to women’s land rights in Zambia; policy and legal reforms of the1990s; key findings – gender insensitivity on land laws and policies, the high cost of legal fees to handle land disputes, the limited benefits of title deeds for women, lack of awareness on land policy process, land grabbing and disinheritance, lack of security of tenure, lack of access to justice; conclusions and recommendations.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2010
    Uganda, Africa

    Includes background to women’s land rights in Uganda; lack of information; prevailing cultural attitudes that discriminate against women; lack of formal land ownership by women; lack of participation of women in land policy formulation; exclusion of women in matters of land inheritance; lack of access to justice; gaps in the ongoing land reform process; conclusions and recommendations.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2010
    Kenya, Africa

    Includes inheritance: a key way women access land; local mechanisms: ‘custom’, power dynamics and lack of engagement; formal justice system: community pariah status and systemic barriers. The lack of access to land cannot be framed as a failing of formal or informal systems, but rather as issues with both. The key to increasing access to justice at both formal and informal levels is to address power dynamics and understand how they operate to the detriment of women.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2010
    Kenya, Africa

    Includes official land rights in Kenya; refusing inheritance – widows and daughters in the patrilineage, dispute trajectories; institutionalizing women’s exclusion – local control boards, local dispute tribunals, formal courts; shifting the debate; working with constructive values in this context. The problem needs to be tackled using the avenues that currently promote the marginalization of women; the socio-cultural value systems that determine which behaviour, arguments, and actions are legitimate in a community.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Kenya, Ethiopia, Eastern Africa

    This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of

    the series, to the Nile River basin in Northeast Africa. The Nile and its tributaries

    flow though nine countries. The White Nile flows though Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt.

    The Blue Nile starts in Ethiopia. Zaire, Kenya, Tanzanian, Rwanda, and Burundi all

    have tributaries, which flow into the Nile or into Lake Victoria. Unique features are

    Lake Victoria and the Sudd wetland where White Nile loses about half of its flow by

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2010
    Eritrea, Eastern Africa

    The project ‘Water Productivity Improvement of Cereals and Food Legumes in the Atbara Basin of Eritrea’ is an example of organization and implementation of farmers’ participatory research, conducted utilizing the available indigenous knowledge while empowering farming communities. Farmers have been partners in technology development with extension and research, with full decision-making power in planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2010
    Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Africa

    Most African countries underwent water legislation reform since the 1990s, through

    which existing plural legal systems were changed into nation-wide permit systems, in

    which the state acts as custodian of the nation’s water resources. Although globally

    heralded as the best way to manage water resources within the broader context of

    Integrated Water Resource Management, this project examines the problematic

    implications of the new laws for the majority of the rural and peri-urban poor. Since time

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2010
    Zimbabwe, Southern Africa

    The Challenge of Integrated Water Resource Management for Improved Rural Livelihoods:

    Managing Risk, Mitigating Drought and Improving Water Productivity in the Water Scarce Limpopo

    Basin: Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a systems approach to water

    management, based on the principle of managing the full water cycle. It is required, not only to

    balance water for food and nature, but also to unlock paths to sustainable development. A global

    hotspot area in terms of water for food and improved livelihoods is in the poverty stricken rural

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