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From Being Property of Men to Becoming Equal Owners? Early Impacts of Land Registration and Certification on Women in Southern Ethiopia

Reports & Research
January, 2008
Ethiopia
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land rights
property law
Traditionally, the land tenure system in Southern Ethiopia may be characterised by patrilineal inheritance and virilocal residence. Young girls have very little influence over when and whom to marry. Further, they have to go to a husband that their clan or family has identified for them, meaning that they after marriage move to the home of their new husband and inherit no land from their parents. Bride prices and dowries are commonly used, and girls are seen as the property of the husband and his clan. This also implies that if the husband dies, his wife is still the property of his clan.
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Voices of women s aspirations over land and land matters: the case of Kibaale District, Uganda

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Uganda
women
land rights
advocacy
gender equity in access to land
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Listen to Us: Land Ownership and Property Control

Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice

Reports & Research
January, 2006
Kenya
local communities
women
land rights
gender equity in access to land
This report presents strategies of grassroots women's organisations in Eastern and Southourn Africa in working toward land tenure security, including home-based care and counselling, increased participation of women in government bodies, raising awareness about land issues, providing support for women's legal procedures, increasing economic security through skill development and microcredit loans as well as leadership development. The report concludes by giving some recommendations for increased effectiveness and scope for these grassroots activities.
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Women's Empowerment in Pastoral Societies

Reports & Research
January, 2008
Global
women
pastoralists
land rights
gender equity in access to land
When reading about women in pastoral societies it is common to find reference to their marginalised roles, their hardship, their oppression and their lack of power as opposed to men’s domination, men’s ownership, men’s power and associated patriarchal relations.
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Gender Implications of Large-Scale Land Deals

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Global
Land & Investments
women
land rights
land grabbing
gender equity in access to land
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Women’s Inheritance and Property Rights: A Vehicle to Accelerate Progress Towards the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals - Paper N. 13

Reports & Research
January, 2009
Ethiopia
women
land rights
property law
legal empowerment
gender equity in access to land
Strengthening women's inheritance and property rights can be an effective means of decreasing poverty and increasing gender equality, and thereby accelerating progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This paper presents two case studies from Rwanda and Ethiopia to illustrate the potential impact that advocacy, legislative reform and law enforcement in this area can have on the achievement of the MDGs in developing countries.
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Women’s Inheritance and Property Rights: A Vehicle to Accelerate Progress Towards the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals - Paper N. 13

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Global
land rights
property law
legal empowerment
gender equity in access to land
Strengthening women's inheritance and property rights can be an effective means of decreasing poverty and increasing gender equality, and thereby accelerating progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This paper presents two case studies from Rwanda and Ethiopia to illustrate the potential impact that advocacy, legislative reform and law enforcement in this area can have on the achievement of the MDGs in developing countries.
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Indigenous Women’s Rights And The African Human Rights System: A Toolkit On Mechanisms

Trousse d'information sur les droits des femmes autochtones

Manuals & Guidelines
March, 2015
Africa
gender equity in access to land
advocacy
legal empowerment
Indigenous Peoples
women

The toolkit has been created in order to introduce indigenous women, and the organisations which represent them, to the African system of human and peoples' rights. It highlights the different routes available to ensuring that the rights of indigenous women are valued and taken into account by the African Commission.

The toolkit is comprised of 11 Information Notes:
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Reconciling Living Customary Law and Democratic Decentralisation to Ensure Women's Land Rights Security

PLAAS Policy Brief 32

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2010
South Africa
women
land rights
land policies
gender equity in access to land
The recent Constitutional Court judgment rendering the Communal Land Rights Act (CLARA) unconstitutional (Tongoane and Others v Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs and Others) must not be allowed to throw decentralisation policy making into disarray. Decentralisation holds much potential for lively, participatory democratic law making and enforcement, through which rural women can gain greater power and secure more rights.
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Focus on Africa: Uganda Lesson Brief, Women and Customary Land Rights

Focus on Africa: Uganda Lesson Brief, Women and Customary Land Rights

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Africa
Land & Investments
local communities
women
landlessness
land rights
land grabbing
property law
common property
rural development
land governance
land policies
legal empowerment
gender equity in access to land
environment
This lesson brief explores the struggles women face in benefiting from their customary rights. It is part of the Uganda module on the Focus on Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.