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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2012Global
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IFAD women’s land rights project: Opportunities and challenges
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2009El SalvadorPoor rural women are among the most vulnerable people in El Salvador, where the Reconstruction and Rural Modernization Programme was launched in 2003 to aid areas stricken by earthquakes two years earlier. Women’s land tenure was not initially a central theme of the programme. The issue had to be addressed, however, when women – a large segment of the target population – were unable to benefit from an investment fund for rural economic development because they had no access to land.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Eastern Africa
The report considers the causes, processes and impacts of rangeland fragmentation on pastoralists in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Causes and processes include privatisation of resources, commercial investment, invasion of land by non-native plants, commercialisation including growth in individual enclosures, and conservation/National Parks. The impacts include increasing wealth divides and a growing inability to overcome and vulnerability to drought.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2009Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
This is a 2009 study undertaken by the Rural Development Institute, now Landesa, and authored by Elisa Scalise. It focuses on six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and addresses both formal and customary laws and pratices governing women's inheritance rights.
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Library ResourceAfrica, Eastern Africa
[From Youtube.com] In September 2010, in Nairobi, Kenya, IDRC hosted the policy symposium, Gendered Terrain: Women's Rights and Access to Land in Africa. At this symposium, researchers from across Africa shared their findings and engaged with policymakers. These 11 short videos present valuable insight from some of the symposium's participants.
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RISD and IS accademy study in Rwanda
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2011RwandaThis study was conducted by Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD) under the funding of the IS-academy in partnership with the Netherlands Government, as part of their research program on “Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development” of which the guiding question is “the link between land governance, sustainable development and poverty alleviation”.
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Experience from Mongolia - By H.Ykhanbai and Ts.Odgerel, JASIL
Reports & ResearchSeptember, 2011MongoliaIn our interventions CM includes a major role for the community, as well as for different social and less privileged groups, such as women. One of the project interventions has been the establishment of women groups in all communities and their increased participation in the decision-making for NRM. We also organized different activities to support women’s household income generation activities.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2011Global
[IATP Blog] In mid-September, I had the pleasure to attend a two-day consultation run by the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), housed at Rutger's University (which, by the way, I was told boasts a freshman year this year that includes no less than 46 percent first generation university students. Kudos!). The consultation was the third that the CWGL has held with U.N.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2010Ghana
This International Women and Mining Network - RIMM's publication is one step towards building an awareness of the challenges and struggles experienced by women in particular places where companies are extracting wealth from the depths of the earth. The perspectives of these outspoken women on mining are rarely heard in international media, court rooms, parliamentary legislatures, or international policy development forums.
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Library ResourceInternational Conventions or TreatiesJanuary, 2006Global
[From UN-Habitat] Women’s equal rights to adequate housing, land and property are well elaborated under international human rights law but are often elusive in practice. This document is a reference guide to international human rights standards identifying both the substance of women’s rights as well as the commitments made by States with regard to improving women’s rights to adequate housing, land and property.
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