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Malawi

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
Malawi
water management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Book chapter
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Mozambique

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
Mozambique
water management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Book chapter
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Zambia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
Zambia
water management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Book chapter
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Urban open spaces for adolescent girls: An assessment for Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Pakistan
Land & Gender
Urban Tenure
gender equity in access to land
urban planning
women
youth
Urban open spaces are valued for their health, social, economic, and environmental benefits. Outdoor physical activity is important for the wellbeing of youth, while playfulness is crucial for creativity and innovation. It is observed that in Pakistan the access of adolescent girls to public open spaces and school playgrounds is restricted, but there has been no prior scientific study. This research has studied the impediments in four planned and un-planned localities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The restrictions on girls are pervasive and become more severe upon their attaining puberty.
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Seeing is Believing? Evidence from a Demonstration Plot Experiment in Mozambique

January, 2012
Mozambique, Eastern Africa
gender equity in access to land
farmers
We preliminarily find that providing sustainable land management (SLM) training to standard contact farmers and having them maintain demonstration plots within the community on a whole had low impact on the knowledge and adoption of SLM practices. However, the aspect of our intervention that targeted a traditionally disadvantaged group as far as their access to extension services, women, was somewhat successful in terms of improving their SLM knowledge and adoption rates. Having a female contact farmer increased the number of SLM techniques adopted by women by 10 percent.
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South Africa

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
South Africa
water management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Book chapter
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Jessore and Tongi

January, 2003
Bangladesh, Southern Asia
Urban Tenure
gender equity in access to land
property rights
land tenure
urban population
women
urbanization
In 1997, CARE-Bangladesh undertook a livelihood security assessment of urban slum households in the cities of Tongi, Khulna and Bogra. Based on the findings of that study and a review of secondary literature, the SHAHAR (Supporting Household Activities for Health, Assets and Revenue) project was conceptualized and designed.
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Decentralization and environmental conservation

gender effects from participation in joint forest management

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2006
Southern Asia, Asia, India
Forest Tenure
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forestry
natural resources management
women
gender equity in access to land
community forestry
forest management plans
land management
sustainable land management
This paper analyzes how women’s participation affects institutional outcomes related to the decentralized governance of community forests in Madhya Pradesh, India. The analysis is based on data from a representative sample of 641 cases of joint forest management, India’s flagship program to involve communities in forest governance. We focus on two outcomes relevant for local livelihoods: control of illicit grazing and control of illicit felling in the forest.
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Patterns and trends of child and maternal nutrition inequalities in Nigeria

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Nigeria
rural population
gender equity in access to land
Despite the fact that nonincome dimensions of well-being such as nutrition and health are now placed on the global development agenda, substantial gaps remain in our knowledge about patterns and trends in nutrition inequalities in many developing countries.
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Governing land: reflections from IFPRI research

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2006
land governance
gender equity in access to land
land management
rural population
"Land is still among the most important assets of the rural population in the developing world. Land resources are governed by a variety of tenure systems based on statutory, customary, or religious law. At the same time, many national, subnational, and local institutions administer the application and enforcement of these laws, relying on a wide variety of policies, rules, and regulations that promote different practices for using and managing land and land-based resources.