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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMEN 15TH OCTOBER 2018 PROGRESS IN ADDRESSING WOMEN LAND RIGHTS - RETRACING THE JOURNEY

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2018
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
climate change
commons
gender equity
land rights
women
THEME: “Sustainable infrastructure, services and social protection for gender
equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls”
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Irregular and illegal Land Acquisition by Kenya’s Elites: Trends, Processes, and Impacts of Kenya’s Land-Grabbing Phenomenon

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
community land rights
compensation
customary land rights
customary tenure
Indigenous Peoples
land
land access
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land governance
land grabbing
land investments
land policies
land rights
land tenure
land use
The International Land Coalition (ILC) has commissioned this present report to analyze the illegal/irregular acquisition of land by Kenya’s elites to ascertain the types of land affected, the processes used to acquire land, and the profiles of the perpetrators, as well as to identify the victims and the impacts of land grabbing. The report is drawn largely from the Kenya Land Alliance (KLA)’s series “Unjust Enrichment: The Making of Land Grabbing Millionaires”,
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Kenya Finally Starts the Process of Developing a National Land Policy

Institutional & promotional materials
June, 2004
Kenya
advocacy
land
land governance
land policies
land reform
The Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Lands and Housing (MOLH) has finally embarked on the process of developing a National Land Policy (NLP) that is envisaged to be in place by June 2005. It has been a tortuous journey for many in the civil society and other stakeholders. The NLP will come, as a gratifying culmination of a battle well fought and the win will hopefully be savoured for a very long time to come. The Minister of Lands and Housing, Hon.
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Kenya Land Alliance Workshop on Land Policy and Land Law Reforms in Kenya

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2001
Kenya
common law
land
land law
land reform
The Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) organized a two-day workshop in Machakos to brainstorm on important issues that should constitute the Land Reform Process. in addition, come up with a plan of action/activities to be undertaken by various stakeholders. Stakeholder representatives included civil society organizations and NGOs, relevant government departments, local authorities, academicians and lawyers. This report is a summary of issues deliberated.
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Kenya Land Issuance Disaggregated Data Analysis

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2018
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land
land access
land governance
land ownership
land records
land tenure
women
This booklet reveals that women only got 103,043 titles representing 10.3 percent, while men got 865,095 titles representing 86.5 percent of the total. The glaring disparity is made clear when looked at against the actual land sizes and titled for women against men. The data sample shows that out of 10,129,704 hectares of land titled between 2013 and 2017 women got 163,253 hectares representing a paltry 1.62 while men got 9,903,304 hectares representing 97.76 percent.
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KENYA LAND POLICY: ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2009
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
conflicts
customary tenure
equal rights
food security
gender equity in access to land
land
land access
land administration
land conflicts
land cover mapping
land deals
land governance
land information systems
land investments
land management
land policies
land reform
land registration
land suitability
land use
land use mapping
natural resources management
rural development
This analysis and recommendations stem from USAID/Kenya’s request for an assessment of Kenya’s draft National Land Policy (dNLP).4 It was conducted under the global task order: Property Rights and Resource Governance Program, a mechanism designed and supervised by USAID-EGAT’s Land Resources Management Team under the Office of Natural Resources Management.
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Land & Property Rights

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2014
Kenya
Forest Landscape Restoration
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
customary tenure
gender equity in access to land
land access
land distribution
land governance
land improvement
land ownership
land policies
land reform
land rights
sustainable development
women
The women Land Rights Project is a project of Kenya Land Alliance that aims at actualisation Women land and property rights, as provided in the Constitution of Kenya, 2013 and as a means towards poverty alleviation. This considering the fact that, in Kenya where the foundation of most communities is Agriculture and livestock production, women contribute up to 80% of workforce yet they only hold 1% of registered land in their names and around 5-6% of registered titles are held in joint names (Kenya Land Alliance, 2013).
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LAND ACCESS ACQUISITION COMPENSATION AND RESETTLEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF EXTRACTIVES ON COMMUNITY LAND

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
community land rights
illegal occupation
land
land access
land acquisitions
land conflicts
land ownership
About 3.5 billion people live in countries rich in oil, gas or minerals. With good governance and transparent management, the revenues from extractive sector can have positive impacts leading to poverty reduction hence boosting shared prosperity , while respecting both the needs of the community and the environment. The extractive sector in Kenya contributes about one (1) per cent to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and three (3) per cent of the total export earnings.
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Land Mali Umma

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2001
Kenya
Forest Landscape Restoration
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
customary land rights
customary tenure
indigenous peoples' lands
land access
land administration
land governance
land improvement
land management
land rights
land tenure
land use
natural resources management
rural development
rural population
sustainable development
tenure security
For a long time the issue of land and related problems has been debated mostly by academicians, politicians and professionals. Although the problem has remained more or less one of the most talked of in Kenya, the public has very often been left out of the debate. Again mostly the debate has been dominated more by complaining about either the lack of policy or the bad land policies and laws and the failure by successive governments to correct those problems.
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Land Sector Non State Actors-(LSNASA) Press-Petition

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2015
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
arable land
customary tenure
land
land access
land cover
land management
land policies
land reform
land rights
The Land Sector Non State Actors (LSNSA) is a network of civil society organizations working together to promote secure and equitable access to land and natural resource for all through advocacy, dialogue and capacity building. We petition parliament on issues we hold to be of fundamental importance in the context and content of the two bills before the National Assembly.