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Tanzania Women Lawyers Association

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Acronym: 
TAWLA
Focal point: 
P.O.Box 9460 Dar es Salaam
Website: 
https://www.tawla.or.tz/
Email: 
office@tawla.or.tz

Location

TAWLA House
Plot 33 Ilala Sharif
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
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women

Tanzania Women Lawyers Association (TAWLA) is an NGO founded in 1989 and officially registered in 1990. The founding members comprised a professional group of women lawyers who felt the need for an organization that could promote an environment guaranteeing equal rights and access to all by focusing on vulnerable and marginalised groups especially women and children. The founding members also recognised the need for women lawyers to foster mutual support for each other in professional advancement and social responsibility. TAWLA has more than 570 members

Tanzania Women Lawyers Association Resources

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Library Resource
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Mainstreaming Gender in Tanzania’s Local Land Governance

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Tanzania
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural land management
compensation
dispossession
land access
land acquisitions
land allocation
land conflicts
land dispute
land investments
women

Despite progressive provisions on gender equality in Tanzania’s land laws, women have little representation in land allocation decisions, including meetings of village councils and village assemblies. Mainstreaming gender in local regulations can help to address this problem.


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Strengthening Women’s Voices in the Context of Agricultural Investments

Lessons from Tanzania

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Tanzania
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural land management
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
displacement
dispossession
eminent domain
land acquisitions
land dispute
women

This report constitutes one of four countrywide assessments produced under the International Institute for Environment and Development’s (IIED) ‘Gender, land and accountability in the context of agricultural and other natural resource investments’ initiative. The goal of the initiative is to strengthen rural women’s livelihood opportunities by empowering them in relation to community land stewardship and increasing their ability to hold agricultural investors in East and West Africa to account. The main aim of this report is to provide a backdrop of relevant policies and practice.

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