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Land tenure, housing rights and gender

Lesotho: Law, land tenure and gender review: Southern Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2005
Lesotho
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
land law
land policies
community land rights
women
This document is a chapter in a larger report commissioned by UN habitat to review the laws and land tenure of Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia. The report provides a brief historical background, snapshots of how the government and legal systems operate, reviews land tenure, the various types of land in the country and the relevant constitutional provisions laws and policies. The chapter also examines housing rights and accessibility of services.
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Measuring Gender, Development, and Land: Data-Driven Analysis and Land Reform in Lesotho

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2016
Lesotho
Land & Gender
gender equity
land reform
land rights
land tenure
Development agencies are increasingly making decisions and evaluating success on the basis of an ever-growing supply of data. Some argue that the proliferation of data improves development outcomes for states and people targeted by agencies' interventions, as well as the accountability of those agencies. Others argue that problems of selection bias, a lack of longitudinal records, and misuse of data can ignore or even exacerbate the problems that development agencies seek to mitigate.
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Women’s Access to Land and Housing in Lesotho

Reports & Research
July, 2018
Lesotho
Land & Gender
Urban Tenure
capacity development
gender equity in access to land
housing rights
land inheritance rights
land law
land policies
land rights
research
women
Women need secure access to and control of land in order to realise their human rights. In order for the women to realise their land and inheritance rights it is important for the policy makers to have in place mechanisms and institutions to guide practice. This report sets out the status of women’s land and inheritance rights in Lesotho. The aim is to provide a consolidated baseline which can inform policy making, implementation and monitoring.
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Gender and Land. Good Practices and Lessons from Four Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact-Funded Land Projects. Synthesis Report and Case Studies: Benin, Lesotho, Mali, and Namibia

Reports & Research
September, 2014
Namibia, Mali, Benin, Lesotho, Africa
Land & Gender
women
gender equity in access to land
development agencies
capacity development
Examines MCC projects in Benin, Lesotho, Mali and Namibia to understand how each project applied gender to its design and implementation and how that approach impacted on results. Aims to help practitioners understand what concrete steps might be taken towards closing the gender gap in land projects.
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National Range Resources Management Policy.

National Policies
Lesotho, Southern Africa, Africa
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoralists
land-use planning
natural resources management
land governance
coastal areas
environment
fisheries
natural disasters
land management
gender equity in access to land
grazing
Extreme environmental degradation characterised by severe degradation of rangelands resources in the country triggered the process of formulating the National Range Resources Management Policy.
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Southern african agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, Zimbabwe
water management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. Southern Africa’s population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth.
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Overview [in Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change]

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, Zimbabwe
water management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Book chapter
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

International Conventions or Treaties
January, 1979
Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Canada, United States of America, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China, Japan, Mongolia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Croatia, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land rights
advocacy
farmers
women
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) - currently ratified by 187 countries - is the only human rights treaty that deals specifically with rural women (Art. 14). Adopted in 1979 by the United Nations Generally Assembly, entered into force in 1981. The Convention defines discrimination against women as follows: