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Why simple solutions won’t secure African women’s land rights

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2021
Africa
Land & Gender
land registration
land titling
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land reform
land rights
land tenure
collective ownership
customary tenure
informal tenure regimes
women
For the past few decades, efforts to strengthen women’s land rights in many sub-Saharan African countries have primarily focused on a single approach: systematic registration through individual/joint certification or titling. While registration — individually or with a spouse — may support tenure security in specific contexts, the sheer complexity of land governance practices and tenure arrangements across the continent (both formal and customary) often render an emphasis on systematic titling inadequate.
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Women’s land rights: Customary rules and formal laws in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia – complementary or in conflict?

Reports & Research
July, 2021
Ethiopia
Land & Gender
land administration
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
customary law
pastoral lands
agropastoral systems
land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
pastoral land rights
women
Land in Ethiopia is held by the state, who acts as a custodian for the Ethiopian people. Even though it is the state which controls land ownership, farmers and pastoralists are guaranteed a lifetime ‘holding’ right that provides rights to use the land, rent it out, donate, inherit and sharecrop it. Everything except sell and mortgage it. On paper and under existing formal laws, women have equal rights to men as far as use and control of and access to land is concerned.
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Women and Community Land Rights: Investing in Local Champions

Reports & Research
July, 2021
Tanzania, Mongolia, Global
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land inheritance rights
matrilineal lineage
patrilineal lineage
land rights
community land rights
local communities
women
For more than five years, the Women’s Land Tenure Security (WOLTS) Project has been investigating the intersection of gender and land relations in mining-affected pastoralist communities in Mongolia and Tanzania. The aim has been to develop a methodology for long-term community engagement and capacity building to protect and support the land rights of all vulnerable people – thus to fully mainstream attention to gender equity in land tenure governance within a framework that would facilitate improvements in community land rights across the board.
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LAND-at-scale Mozambique

Scaling community legal literacy, land rights certification and climate resilience

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2021
Mozambique
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
cadastres
land cover mapping
gender equity in access to land
land governance
poverty
sustainable development
adjudication
tenure security
capacity development
legal empowerment
local communities
This one-pager provides details on the LAND-at-scale project in Mozambique. This project is implemented by Centro Terra Viva and Terra Firma, and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via the Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency.
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Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2016

Reports & Research
January, 2017
Nepal
Land & Gender
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
gender equity
development
sustainable development
rural areas
urban areas
land ownership
households
women
The 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) is the fifth survey of its kind to be implemented in the country as part of the worldwide Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program. It was implemented by New ERA under the aegis of the Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Government of Nepal with the objective of providing reliable, accurate, and up-to-date data for the country.
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Learnings, Experiences and Gender Sensitive Programs on Strengthening Women’s Land Rights and Gender Equitable Land Tenure

Reports & Research
March, 2018
Nepal
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
tenure insecurity
tenure security
women
This report contains experiences and learning achieved by participants of "Governing Land for Men and Women" a three-month learning programme jointly launced by Oxfam in Nepal and UN FAO.

You will find in this report opinion of the programme participants on recognising and securing land rights of women, poor and vulnerable groups in Nepal.
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Women and Community Land Rights: Investing in Local Champions

Reports & Research
June, 2021
Tanzania, Mongolia
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
community forestry
land economics
land rights
land tenure
community land rights
local communities
women
For more than five years, the Women’s Land Tenure Security (WOLTS) Project has been investigating the intersection of gender and land relations in mining-affected pastoralist communities in Mongolia and Tanzania. The aim has been to develop a methodology for long-term community engagement and capacity building to protect and support the land rights of all vulnerable people – thus to fully mainstream attention to gender equity in land tenure governance within a framework that would facilitate improvements in community land rights across the board.
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Pathways to improving and scaling Land Tenure Registration (LTR) approaches in Burundi

Reports & Research
October, 2020
Burundi
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land registration
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land tenure systems
tenure security
perception of tenure security
land stakeholders
local communities
women
This scoping study on ways to improve tenure security in Burundi is commissioned by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). RVO is responsible for the implementation of the LAND-at-scale program, which is a program launched by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contribute to improved land governance around the world.
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Getting it right from planning to reporting: A guidance tool for women’s land rights data and statistics

Training Resources & Tools
May, 2021
Global
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
poverty
sustainable development
land policies
land use planning
land rights
land tenure
assessment
women
open data
To ensure a better and more sustainable future for all, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (“the 2030 Agenda”) has identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. SDGs range from poverty eradication, zero hunger, decent work and reduced inequalities to quality education, clean water and sanitation, and gender equality, only to name some of them.
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Final evaluation of the project “Adaptive management and monitoring of the Maghreb’s oases systems”

Reports & Research
July, 2020
Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
land information systems
geographical information systems
gender equity in access to land
sustainable land management
natural resources management
water
water management
water rights
capacity development
The Maghreb's oases systems provide a major contribution to the region's food security, economy and natural resources. Despite this potential, oasis ecosystems are threatened by a range of complex factors related to the expansion of agricultural land and increasing scarcity of water resources. The project, implemented by FAO in Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania from May 2016 to December 2019, brought together key stakeholders to address the lack of available information on the status of oases and to advocate on factual bases shared by all stakeholders and verifiable in the field.