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1. Library Resource

   

   Land Corruption in Africa in 3 Topics

   Reports & Research

   September, 2019

   Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Ghana

   Land & Corruption

   compulsory acquisitions

   customary land rights

   customary law

   customary tenure

   eviction

   gender equity in access to land

   land conflicts

   land dispute

   land dispute resolution

   land inheritance rights

   legal empowerment

   marital property rights

   women

   From July 17 to August 7, 2019, the Land Portal Foundation, the African Land Policy Center, GIZ and Transparency International Chapters in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda co-facilitated the dialogue Land Corruption in Africa addressing the role of traditional leaders in customary land administration, forced evictions as a form of land corruption and its Impact on women’s land rights and an analysis of alternative dispute resolution systems in addressing land corruption.

2. Library Resource

   

   Women's perceptions of tenure security

   Evidence from 33 Countries

   Reports & Research

   March, 2019

   Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon, Namibia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Jordan, United Kingdom

   gender equity in access to land

   land tenure

   land tenure systems

   property rights

   tenure security

   women

   This report uses household-level data from 33, mostly developing, countries to analyse perceptions of tenure insecurity among women. We test two hypotheses: (1) that women feel more insecure than men; and (2) that increasing statutory protections for women, for instance by issuing joint named titles or making inheritance law more gender equal, increases de facto tenure security.