Female-headed households often experience inequalities in access to resources and income-generating opportunities. Conflicts may make women poorer. But it is important to realise that conflicts also offer an opportunity for change in which gender stereotypes shift and gender roles and identities can be renegotiated. Did genocide and civil war in Rwanda lead to new opportunities for rural women?
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosSeptiembre, 2009Rwanda
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesJulio, 2009Mozambique
O presente estudo que tem como objectivo colher informação sobre o estágio actual do direito da mulher à terra em Moçambique tendo como base quatro áreas principais: sensibilização e conhecimentos sobre o direito da mulher à terra, mobilização do apoio político para o direito da mulher ao uso e controlo da terra, controlo da mulher sobre a terra e apoio para prática de uma agricultura sustentável.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesOctubre, 2009Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sudáfrica
The Women’s Land Rights in Southern Africa Project (WOLAR) is aimed at enhancing women’s access to, ownership of, control over land and other productive resources and services in order to meet their basic livelihood needs and become more economically independent and secure.
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Library ResourceMateriales institucionales y promocionalesOctubre, 2009Sudáfrica
AFRA Newsletter No.65
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesOctubre, 2009Mozambique
Land is critical to the economic, social and cultural development of many countries.
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A Training Toolkit-Land Law & Gender
Recursos y herramientas de capacitaciónEnero, 2010UgandaProperty rights economically empower women by creating opportunities for earning income, securing their place in the community and ensuring their livelihoods. When women are economically empowered, it spurs development for their families and communities. Property Rights and Gender in Uganda: A Training Toolkit seeks to strengthen understanding of property rights for women and men as equal citizens.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesOctubre, 2009Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, África
Includes the legal and policy situation relating to women’s land rights in Southern Africa; women farmers speak out on which land rights are being enjoyed, or not; potential springboards to the realisation of women’s land rights; baseline trends and key conclusions; recommended action points.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesJunio, 2009Mozambique, África
Covers traditional cultural norms and values, including property and inheritance, religion and witchcraft; and learning from good practice, including advocacy, influencing customary legal culture, support services, awareness raising, children’s knowledge and life skills, conclusions and recommendations. Based on studies in Gaza, Manica, Zambezia and Nampula.
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Library ResourceEnero, 2010Marruecos, Filipinas, Sudáfrica, Turquía, Chile, India, México, Brasil
How has citizen action resulted in national policy change in different parts of the world?
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2009Kenya
Land is a critical resource in Kenya, having economic, social, political,
environmental and cultural significance. Kenya’s population continues to rely
on land for both subsistence and economic activities. In fact, the increase
of the population from about 20 million people in the 1960s to about 40
million currently, has put enormous pressure on land. Only a third of Kenya’s
land is arable while the rest is arid and semi-arid. With most Kenyans still
living off the land, contestations over access to, control over and ownership
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