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Gender and Citizenship: Supporting Resources Collection

Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2004
Slovenia, Liechtenstein, Bangladesh, Slovakia, El Salvador, Croatia, Chile, Zimbabwe, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Australia, Tanzania, Poland, India, Brazil, Czech Republic, Eastern Europe, Global, Central America, Eastern Africa, South America, Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Caribbean, Southern Asia, Central Asia
Land & Gender
land rights
rural development
Citizenship is an abstract concept and therefore great care must be taken in explaining what it means in practice and what can effectively be done in the context of development interventions and policy. Development projects which enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship. Citizenship is about concrete institutions, policy and structures and the ways in which people can shape them using ideas of rights and participation.
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Governing for Equity, Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Reports & Research
July, 2003
Bangladesh, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Namibia, Central Asia, Global, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Southern Asia
Land & Gender
land rights
This publication comes out of the Gender, Citizenship and Governance programme of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands. The project aimed to develop good practice in changing governance institutions to promote gender equality, enhance citizen participation and build accountability of public administration systems. Action research projects were conducted with 16 women's organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in eight countries in Southern Africa and South Asia (South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh).
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Socio-economic dominance of ethnic and racial groups: the African experience

January, 2004
Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa
land tenure
This paper argues that socio-economic dominance based on ethnic and race factors is a long standing phenomena in Africa, which was instigated by colonial rule and perpetuated by elite interests in capital accumulation and political power during the post-colonial era. The report looks at experiences from a range of countries, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Rwanda and the Congo.It finds that ethnic dominance-building strategies have tended to focus on the control of access to limited resources.
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Land, violent conflict and development

January, 2004
Rwanda, South Africa, Mali, Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia, Oceania
development
land
land reform
land tenure
This paper looks at the dynamics of land and violent conflict. It states that conflict situations in rural societies deeply affect the politics of land, and that land requires a careful approach by policy makers because it is a central element in the evolution of societies. As a result, policies pertaining to land are not neutral in terms of conflict management.The paper argues that donors seeking to promote peace and development should tackle land issues in recipient countries more systematically, more carefully and in a more coherent manner.
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Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa

January, 2003
South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa
land tenure
This research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe looks at the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of 'legal pluralism' and complex, politicised institutional settings. In the southern African context rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested. In practice rights are realised through complex negotiations about access to resources at a local level.
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Blood and soil: land, politics and conflict prevention in Zimbabwe and South Africa

January, 2004
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa
land
rural development
land tenure
This report offers a detailed analysis of the different challenges of land reform in both Zimbabwe and South Africa. The report looks at the history of land ownership and policy in both countries.For Zimbabwe, it offers practical policy suggestions for ways forward by identifying the contours of a post-Mugabe land approach.
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Bringing equality home: promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women

January, 2004
Rwanda, Nigeria, Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Gender
women
land tenure
In this report, the COHRE Women and Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) documents the fact that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in sub-Saharan Africa (regardless of their marital status) cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own right.
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Zimbabwe?s dryland research station

Multimedia
December, 2003
Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
natural resources management
rangelands
A crops specialist and a livestock specialist from the Matopos research station describe technologies being developed to support smallholder farmers experiencing drought
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Understanding leads to change

Multimedia
December, 2003
Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
natural resources management
A senior agricultural extension officer for Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe describes how the extension service is helping farmers to cope with less reliable rainfall.
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The impact and poverty reduction implications of foot and mouth disease control in southern Africa, with special reference to Zimbabwe

Reports & Research
December, 2003
Zimbabwe, Africa, Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
rangelands