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Gendering Land Tools: Achieving secure tenure for women and men

January, 2009
Global
Land & Gender
advocacy
capacity development
customary law
gender equity in access to land
land management
land policies
property rights
research
This publication, from the Global Land Tool Network, presents a mechanism for effective inclusion of women and men in land tool development and outlines methodologies and strategies for systematically developing land tools that are responsive to both women and men’s needs. Equal property rights for women and men are fundamental to social and economic gender equality. However, women often face discrimination in formal, informal and customary systems of land tenure.
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Secure Land Rights for All

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2008
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
capacity development
continuum in land rights
gender equity in access to land
land policies
land rights
land tenure systems
tenure security
This publication on Secure Land Rights for All demonstrates how secure land rights are particularly important in helping to reverse three types of phenomena: gender discrimination; social exclusion of vulnerable groups; and wider social and economic inequalities linked to inequitable and insecure rights to land. It argues that policymakers should adopt and implement the continuum of land rights because, no single form of tenure can meet the different needs of all social groups.
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Indigenous Women in Southeast Asia: Challenges in their Access to Justice

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2013
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, South-Eastern Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land access
land ownership
land rights
legal empowerment
This briefing paper is prepared as part of the advocacy of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) for the respect, protection and recognition of the human rights of indigenous women. In this paper, we focus on access to justice for indigenous women in Southeast Asia facing development-induced violence.
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The Impacts of Land Dispossession on Indigenous Women

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2015
Cambodia, India, Indonesia
Land & Investments
capacity development
extractive industries
gender equity in access to land
land grabbing
land ownership
land rights
tenure security
women
This briefing paper is an outcome of the project "Strengthening the Documentation and Advocacy Capacity of Indigenous Women for the Advancement of their Rights and Welfare on Land" implemented in Cambodia, India and Indonesia in 2013-2014.
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Enhancing Legal Empowerment and Customary Law in Rwanda: Report of a Pilot Project concerning Community-level Dispute Resolution and Women’s Land Rights

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Rwanda
Land & Gender
legal empowerment
customary law
land dispute
gender equity in access to land
women
We present a report on the results of a 10-month pilot project conducted in North- Western Rwanda that aimed to explore fruitful ways to engage with customary law in order to empower rural communities and rural women in particular. The focus is on the effectiveness of land dispute resolution at the community level and the respect for women’s formally guaranteed land rights by the institutions involved.
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Transforming the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil for greater gender equality and women’s empowerment

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2016
Global
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land rights
legal empowerment
palm oil industries
women
Gender issues are relegated to the periphery in current debates and approaches concerning the sustainable governance of oil palm in Indonesia. However, ongoing research by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) points to the critical roles that women play as workers, smallholders and members of affected local communities. Gender inequities follow as oil palm expansion displaces local women from land on which they cultivate food crops.
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Land Rights Monitors and the Struggle for Land Rights in Agricultural Investment Areas

Experience from Tanzania

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2014
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
capacity development
communal ownership
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
gender equity in access to land
land
land access
land investments
To ensure that there is sustainability at the community level in its land rights and governance training programme, Land Rights Research and Resources Institute (HAKIARDHI), a Tanzanian national level organization that spearheads land rights of small-scale producers, uses land rights monitors (LRMs) in its program areas. In each of the selected villages of the program districts, two LRMs (a man and a woman) who have received land rights training from HAKIARDHI are democratically elected by villagers.
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Impacts of Climate Change on Land Use Patterns and Livelihoods of Pastoralists and Hunter Gathers

A Case of Mbulu, Hanang, Kiteto and Simanjiro Districts

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
climate change
customary tenure
gender equity in access to land
grazing
grazing land rights
land access
land administration
land use
land use mapping
land-use planning
Over the years, PINGOs Forum has been concerned with the future of Pastoral and HunterGatherer communities with regard to changing patterns of traditional land use and livelihoods options. The information gathered from the past studies have risen much concern on the side of PINGOs Forum that perhaps climate change may have a serious bearing in the land use patterns and livelihoods of Pastoralists and Hunter-gatherers. As a result of this concern, PINGOs Forum decided to embark on a study to observe changes that have occurred in land use patterns in recent years.
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Application of Fiscal Instruments in Land Management

A Case Study of Kajiado County

Reports & Research
May, 2012
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
assessment
assignment (land)
cadastral administration
cadastral register
cadastres
capital value (land)
co-ownership rights
collateral (land)
collective ownership
common lands
common law
common rights
communal ownership
community land rights
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
concession (land)
control rights
customary land rights
deed registration
development
environment
gender equity in access to land
grazing land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
indigenous people's tenure
investment funds
land access
land administration
land allocation
land deals
land distribution
land economics
land governance
land information systems
land investments
land loans
land markets
land ownership
land policies
land rent
land speculation
land tax
land tenure systems
land transactions
land transfers
property rights
public ownership
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
tenure regularization
title deeds
Torrens system
use rights
Fiscal instruments are tools that governments use to manage revenue and expenditure and therefore influence the growth (or stability) of the various sectors of the economy. Government revenue is derived primarily through taxation. In Kenya, land taxation has contributed less than 1% of government revenue for the past three years. The Sessional Paper No.
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Large Scale Land Acquisitions for Investment in Kenya

Is the participation, and benets of affected local communities meaningful, and equitable?

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
December, 2016
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
alienation (land)
capital value (land)
communal ownership
community land rights
compensation
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' lands
indigenous people's tenure
land access
land acquisitions
land administration
land allocation
land consolidation
land economics
land governance
land law
land management
land subdivision
land tenure
land tenure systems
land transactions
land valuation
local communities
natural resources management
regularization of illegal occupation
research
tenure security
Land acquisitions, either driven by foreign investments or domestic investment needs have continued to polarize opinions. When this research was proposed, it was premised on arguments by scholars Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Helen Markelova, who had analysed agricultural land deals, and argued that there were potentially two schools of thought about foreign acquisitions over agricultural land.