The document details the initiative’s methodology, including the conceptual framework, research questions, and the dimensions evaluated in the gender analysis. It provides a comprehensive definition of land rights and introduces innovative tools and approaches employed in gauging transformative changes in women’s empowerment. The methods section further explores the tools and techniques utilized, including community profiles, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions.
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Women’s Land Rights in Bangladesh. Securing Women’s Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches
The following analysis of relevant social and legal contexts in Bangladesh reviews existing literature to identify the current institutional and regulatory framework, tenure interventions and barriers to the recognition of women’s land tenure rights, as well as the access to mechanisms to resolve land conflict and to reinforce women’s rights. This analysis reviews secondary data is to identify and contextualize the opportunity for Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) to reinforce women’s land rights in Bangladesh.
Strengthening Rural Women’s Capacity to Advocate for their Land Rights: Step-by-Step Process and Case Study from The Gambia
This document describes the process led by ActionAid International The Gambia (AAITG) to build rural women’s capacities to advocate for land rights in The Gambia, and provides guidance for scaling the approach in other contexts.
Women’s Land Rights in the Kyrgyz Republic. Securing Women’s Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches
Legal reforms and political commitments on land and on gender since the end of the Soviet Union have protected women’s rights and have included affirmative measures to support women’s ownership, and use rights to land, as well as an improved role in management of pastures. However, while the experience of women on the two types of land differs considerably, common barriers to gender equity remain; these challenges mainly derive from patrilocal marriage traditions, patrilineal inheritance patterns, exclusion of women from decision-making and power, and social norms that prevent women from asserting and protecting their interests inside and outside of the home.
Women’s Land Rights in Niger. Securing Women’s Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches
This review provides an overview of the existing land governance arrangements in Niger regulating women’s land rights. The first section discusses land tenure systems and institutional arrangements. The second part discusses two different types of land tenure interventions – registration and certification – and the extent to which they have impacted the recognition of women’s land rights. The third part unpacks the predominant barriers to and gaps in recognition of women’s rights to land, while the last part highlights land dispute resolution mechanisms and their implications for women.
Impacts of Covid-19 and Payment for Forest Environmental Services on Rural Women in Moc Chau district, Son La province
Key messages
- The Covid-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on ethnic minority women in Moc Chau district, Son La province. These impacts include reduced incomes, increased family pressures and workloads, limited access to natural resources for agriculture production activities and impacts on mental health.
- PFES is currently being paid to communities, social organizations, households and groups of households. Women benefit from and have access to earnings from PFES payments to communities, groups of households, and households. The impact of PFES and its ability to support women in the context of Covid-19 depends on amounts paid, when they are paid, and the benefit-sharing mechanisms involved.
- Women participating in focus group discussions highlighted problems they face when implementing PFES, including limited earnings from PFES, lower PFES payments due to increased law enforcement, risks associated with accessing and securing forest use rights, and limited access to information and understanding of policies.
- More researches are needed to assess the long-term impacts of Covid-19 and the role of PFES in helping women cope with the pandemic.
Women’s Land Rights in The Gambia. Securing Women’s Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches
This socio-legal analysis provides an overview of existing land governance arrangements in The Gambia as they relate to women’s access to land and resources. It discusses two different types of land tenure interventions: title deeds and certification. These inventions vary according to different types of recognized rights-holders and the area in which rights are being formalized. Access to and control over land and other productive resources in The Gambia is shaped by complex tenure systems. Coexisting and interacting customary systems and statutory regulations are influenced by reform processes, with differentiated effects in rural and urban areas. Rights to resources are often negotiated across multiple rights-holders, overlapping tenure regimes and resource systems. Despite important progress through legislative reforms, implementation has been slow and prevailing barriers and gaps continue to influence the recognition of women’s land rights and their ability to benefit from them.
Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia. Securing Women’s Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches
This review summarizes relevant findings from the socio-legal analysis conducted in Ethiopia. It combines the review of key legal and policy documents and literature on existing barriers to the recognition of women’s land rights. The review analyzes existing tenure systems, identifies tenure interventions recognizing rights to women, as well as barriers constraining their ability to benefit from those rights. Most of the land in Ethiopia is under statutory tenure, landholding certification is the most important land tenure intervention recognizing land rights. Constitutional Reforms adopted since 1995 specify principles to protect women’s rights, including provisions to recognize and enforce their rights to land and resources through a land certification process which ensured women’s engagement. Since 1998, Ethiopia’s massive rural landholding certification process has certified over 20 million plots. Despite these advancements in gender-responsive policy, Ethiopian land tenure practices continue to be characterized by the marginalization and invisibilization of women.
Women’s Land Rights in Colombia. Securing Women’s Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches
This paper reviews land governance in Colombia to examine how legal, institutional, and cultural frameworks influence women’s land rights. It reviews existing statutory regulations and institutional structures defining land rights in Colombia and their relevance for women. It will examine tenure interventions in Colombia and the existing gaps and constraints that prevent women from exercising their land rights. Finally, it unpacks access to justice and land dispute resolution mechanisms and the ability of women to access justice mechanisms in Colombia.
Women’s Land Rights in Uganda. Securing Women’s Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches
Following constitutional reforms in the 1995 Constitution, Uganda has promoted important reforms formalizing customary tenure systems and promoting changes in land administration that recognize women’s participation and engagement in land governance structures.