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1. Library Resource

   

   GTZ's Land Use Planning Methods, Strategies and Tools

   These guidelines from the Working Group on Integrated Land Use Planning (WGLUP) are a further step in developing an approach to gender-sensitive land use planning (LUP) within the framework of development co-operation

   Training Resources & Tools

   January, 1999

   Global

   gender equity in access to land

   rural development

   property law

   agriculture

   natural resources management

   land rights

   capacity development

   farmers

   women

   [adapted from GTZ] 1999- More than one hundred technical co-operation projects on three continents supported by the various technical departments of GTZ were involved in this discussion on Land Use Planning, paying specific attention to gender and women’s promotion through its pilot program “Gender and Women’s Promotion”.

2. Library Resource

   

   Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

   International Conventions or Treaties

   January, 1999

   Global

   Land & Gender

   gender equity in access to land

   women

   The Optional Protocol entered into force in 2000.

3. Library Resource

   

   Women’s Land and Property Rights in Situations of Conflict and Reconstruction

   Reports & Research

   February, 1998

   Rwanda

   Land & Gender

   Land Conflicts

   gender equity in access to land

   land access

   land conflicts

   tenure security

   property rights

   women

   Women constitute the majority of small farmers, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, in countries around the world, they continue to be denied the right to own the ground that they cultivate and on which they raise their families. This publication, “Women’s Land and Property Rights in Situations of Conflict and Reconstruction,” presents a diversity of views and experiences that describe the multiple strategies being used in countries worldwide to secure women's rights to land and property.

4. Library Resource

   

   Women’s Property Rights and The Land Question in Rwanda

   Conference Papers & Reports

   February, 1998

   Rwanda

   Land & Gender

   Land Conflicts

   gender equity in access to land

   women

   property rights

   land conflicts

   Looks at property rights and returnees, the situation of women in relation to property rights, consequences of women’s lack of access to land, initiatives taken by national authorities to improve women’s property rights, and initiatives taken by UNHCR.