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Understanding the policy landscape for climate change adaptation: A cross-country comparison using the Net-map method

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa, Bangladesh, Kenya, Mali
gender equity in access to land
women
In the context of increasing vulnerability to climate change for people dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods, the International Food Policy Research Institute and partner organizations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, and Bangladesh undertook a project broadly aiming to create knowledge that will help policymakers and development agencies to strengthen the capacity of male and female smallholder farmers and livestock keepers to manage climate-related risks.
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Listen to Us: Land Ownership and Property Control

Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice

Reports & Research
January, 2006
Kenya
local communities
women
land rights
gender equity in access to land
This report presents strategies of grassroots women's organisations in Eastern and Southourn Africa in working toward land tenure security, including home-based care and counselling, increased participation of women in government bodies, raising awareness about land issues, providing support for women's legal procedures, increasing economic security through skill development and microcredit loans as well as leadership development. The report concludes by giving some recommendations for increased effectiveness and scope for these grassroots activities.
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Update 2010: Rural women’s access to land and property in selected countries

Progress towards achieving the aims of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Kenya
women
land rights
advocacy
gender equity in access to land
In 2004, FAO, IFAD, and the International Land Coalition (ILC) jointly published a report on progress towards the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), with respect to the status of rural women. This report provided an historical background to CEDAW and its Optional Protocol (OP 1999) as well as an overview on land issues as reflected in the reports submitted by States Parties.
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Innovations for securing women s access to land in Eastern Africa

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Eastern Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
women
legal empowerment
gender equity in access to land
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Assisting Kayole widows in gaining control to family land, Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya
women
land rights
gender equity in access to land
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“Without Land You Are Nobody”

Critical Dimensions of Women‟s Access to Land and Relations in Tenure in East Africa

Reports & Research
January, 2007
Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
women
land rights
gender equity in access to land
This scoping study on women's access to land in East Africa sets up a conceptual framework in which to consider issues of women's land tenure and identifies key aras for future research as well as key actiors toward increased jender equity in land rights.
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Is gender an important factor influencing user groups’ property rights and forestry governance?

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya
women
property law
forestry
gender equity in access to land
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Expert Group Meeting: Good practices in realizing women's rights to productive resources, with a focus on land

Papers and presentations now available

Reports & Research
January, 2012
Kenya
women
land rights
gender equity in access to land
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The transformation of property rights in Kenya's Maasiland

January, 2005
Kenya, Eastern Africa
land tenure
gender equity in access to land
property rights
"This paper explores the puzzle of why the pastoral Maasai of Kajiado, Kenya, supported the individualization of their collectively held group ranches, an outcome that is inconsistent with theoretical expectation. Findings suggest that individuals and groups will seek to alter property rights in their anticipation of net gains from a new assignment, even as they seek to eliminate disadvantages that were present in the status quo property rights structure.
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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.