Women, land and customary law

The objective is to record current living customary law and ways in which it is moving in progressive directions so that this information can be used towards justice, as evidence in court cases, and in policy development and political engagement from local to national levels. The survey explored how women access land, their actual use of the different types of land, their decision making capacity in relation to the different categories of land (residential and agricultural), the extent of their security or vulnerability to eviction, as well as the impact of marital status on women’s land rights.