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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Kenya, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa

    The aim was to analyze the obstacles to, and opportunities for women’s access to land, with emphasis on the identification of more effective strategies in improving the security of women’s land rights. This report is a programme evaluation including lessons learned. Case studies drawn from the advocacy project are attached as Annexes.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010

    The report covers activities and outcomes of various projects for enhancing women’s access to land and land titles in Kenya, Mozambique, Madagascar, Nairobi and in other areas of East and Southern Africa, as well as raising awareness about women’s land rights.

  3. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    January, 2010
    Global

    This toolbox is based on materials developed for the International Land Coalition's project in Eastern and Southern Africa entitled "Securing Women's Access to Land: Linking Research and Action". The core of this project was action-oriented research carried out by partners in seven countries with a view to using research results in advocacy. The capacity-building activities to support partners included advocacy workshops on which this toolbox is based.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Global

    Advocacy planning is a step-by-step process of analysis and debate that leads to the creation of an advocacy strategy plan and its implementation. The advocacy toolbox guides researchers and activists to walk through steps in identifying and analyzing needs, structural constraints and strategies specific to locale and context. The process includes assistance in evaluating objectives and assessing the impact of interventions. It furthers effective policy proposals, possible solutions and systemic change.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Kenya, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa

    The aim is for participants to develop an innovation plan focused on advocacy for women’s access to and control over land, employing ideas and tools acquired during the Learning Route of the International Land Coalition (ILC - www.landcoalition.org) programme. Four proposals for innovation plans are provided as examples.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2011
    Kenya

    In the experience of GROOTS Kenya, HIV-positive widows are often thrown out of their matrimonial homes, their land grabbed by in-laws as they are blamed for their husbands’ deaths and/or feared to die within a short period of time. Due to a lack of awareness on land rights, as well as the importance of retaining legal documents to lodge court cases, the ability of widows and orphans to control land and other family assets in Gatundu district is threatened.

  7. Library Resource

    Fact sheet on land grabbing

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2010
    Global

    The food and financial crises of 2008 ignited a massive round of “land grabbing” in the Global South, with foreign agribusinesses leasing and buying large tracts of land to produce both food and fuel crops for export. Despite the canceling of a few highly controversial leases, these land deals have continued largely unabated, with international institutions increasingly trying to re-frame them as potential development opportunities.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2011
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    Esta publicación reúne diez ponencias presentadas en el Seminario Internacional "Mujer Rural: Cambios y Persistencias", que  se desarrolló los días 2 y 3 de diciembre de 2010 en la ciudad de Lima, con la participación de expertos y expertas de México,Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile y Perú. Asimismo, contó con la asistencia derepresentantes de organizaciones rurales y agrarias de mujeres de distintas regiones del Perú y deespecialistas de instituciones públicas y privadas.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa

    The animosity created during land contestations makes it impossible for widows, wives and mothers to peacefully settle land claims and use their land. The research evidence provides a platform to advocate for a transformative agenda to improve rural poor women’s access to and control over land and other natural resources. This includes building linkages with the wider advocacy relationships and programmes of International Land Coalition (ILC - www.landcoalition.org).

  10. Library Resource
    Social Impacts Macha

    A case study of Macha mission land in Choma district

    Reports & Research
    January, 2011
    Zambia

    Macha Mission in Choma District of Southern Province, Zambia was founded by the Brethren in Christ (BIC) Church in 1906 and granted title deeds to 3,003 hectares of land by the British colonial authority of the time. Since then the Mission has built a church, a hospital (which today includes a pioneering malaria clinic), two schools, and houses for its workers. A large market has grown up near the hospital, serving local workers and hospital visitors.

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