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GTAs address root causes of gender inequality by fostering lasting changes in decision-making and resource control, offering a strategic framework to enhance women’s empowerment in accessing and managing land and production means, as well as natural resources.

GTAs address root causes of gender inequality by fostering lasting changes in decision-making and resource control, offering a strategic framework to enhance women’s empowerment in accessing and managing land and production means, as well as natural resources.

The webinar featured four panels exploring critical aspects of gender equality in land rights in Uganda. Beginning with an overview of the National Oil Palm Project (NOPP), speakers highlighted efforts to empower women and youth through oil palm cultivation and Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs). The discussion then delved into the challenges faced by women in accessing land rights and the implementation of legal empowerment clinics. Insights were shared on the social, cultural, and economic impacts of the NOPP, emphasizing the need for holistic interventions. The webinar also explored the collaborative process of co-creating and testing GTA tools, including Legal Empowerment Clinics and Masculinities Training. Finally, the importance of national and global learning exchanges in advancing women’s land rights advocacy and policy reform was underscored. Throughout the webinar, speakers emphasized the need for multisectoral collaboration and continuous community engagement.

Overall, the gender analysis methodology aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing women’s land rights and inform the project’s design and implementation to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Co-creation is a concept gaining cachet at the moment across diverse communities of practice from research and development to business and planning sectors. It is a term that has come to mean many things at different stages of project conception, implementation, and scaling. This is a positive step in the right direction, giving voice, legitimacy and validation to the people who will adopt and apply the products of a co-creative process. In this guide for applying co-creation to the conceptualization and design of gender transformative approaches (GTAs) in development projects and rural transformation interventions, we understand co-creation as a collaborative practice for generating shared visions and knowledge that leads to action. Co-creation is iterative and can be inserted into any stage of design and development to ensure that the end users are mutually engaged in the creative process with the implementing actors.

Sense-making is a form of validating research data with research participants. It is not only important from an ethical and beneficence standpoint to return data back to the people and communities who have been involved in research where possible, but it can also help to cross-check and add nuance and depth to the initial findings, making them more robust.

This set of briefs was produced as an easy-to-use guide to address the challenges surrounding land rights in Kyrgyzstan based on the Kyrgyz land, civil and family codes. Its primary goal is to offer Kyrgyz citizens a clear understanding of their rights, legal processes, and practical steps related to land ownership. It covers seven scenarios of land ownership for women and men, and disputes common in Kyrgyzstan, ranging from resolving marital property disputes to addressing unauthorized land expansions and combating squatting on agricultural lands.

Beyond providing visuals and notes to clarify the complexities of legal land rights in the Kyrgyz Republic, the briefs outline pragmatic and actionable steps that individuals can follow to claim their rights. Whether they describe procedures for initiating legal proceedings, navigating bureaucratic processes, or understanding the steps involved in formalizing ownership, the briefs offer a practical roadmap for those actively engaged in securing their land rights.

The seven legal procedures in the quick guide are also available individually, listed in order of the frequency of disputes encountered:

1. Marital property division and legal procedures

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2. Registering ownership rights after the expiration of the inheritance acceptance period

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3. Resolving land disputes

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4. Combating the unauthorized occupation of state-owned agricultural land

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5. Addresing unauthorized expansion of vegetable gardens and land plots on private lands

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6. Inheritance of land without a will

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7. Ensuring the rights of spouses and children in state registration of land and property purchases

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This manual describes how to implement a Gender Transformative Learning Route (GT-Learning Route). The GT-Learning Route is an adaptation of the “Learning Route” method specifically focused to examine gender dynamics within community-based organizations. It is intended to create opportunities for women and men to learn from other women that actively participate in the governance and leadership of rural development initiatives.

This document summarizes results from a gender analysis conducted by the Women’s Resource Rights (WRR) project team in 2023. WRR is part of the Global Initiative for Gender Transformative Approaches to promote and strengthen women’s land rights through the integration of gender transformative approaches (GTAs) in IFAD rural development interventions by sharing learning to improve policies, tools and practices (https://www.cifor.org/wlr). The three-year initiative (2021–2024) conducts gender analyses; pilots context-appropriate GTAs to advance the recognition and protection of women’s land rights in different IFAD projects; and scales up the GTA agenda. The initiative team works collaboratively with IFAD project personnel in each country to share, add value and learn from ongoing efforts.

This interactive and practical training facilitates adult learning and aims to build capacities to apply the concepts learned in everyday life. For example, it includes interactive roleplaying games, scenarios, and guest speakers who share their experiences to model sound financial behaviors.