By Jen Duncan and Scholastica Haule This post first appeared in the Guardian’s …
Collaborate with the Government of Tanzania and civil society to develop and implement policy legislative and regularly frameworks that strengthen the land rights of rural women and men.
With a land title, Liberata could feed her children and afford to send …
A recent report from Rwanda’s Department of Land and Mapping found that women, …
This report analyses Ghana’s Land Bill, Draft 3, and provides recommendations for how the Bill could more clearly and adequately accomplish its stated purpose and reflect the principles and mandates of the Constitution and National Land Policy.
December 2013 — This memo presents implementation guidelines for a land tenure risk …
In Rwanda women’s involvement in land-related decisions at the household level varies considerably depending on their marital status, their age, their husbands’ knowledge of women’s rights to land, and community-level perceptions of the extent to which women’s land rights are mediated by their husbands and kin.
Though there is no one-size-fits-all approach that will guarantee that women’s rights are secure, or that will equalize imbalances in access, use, and control over land, this paper presents an analytical framework that starts with women, and posits that this starting point is a necessary first step towards correcting imbalances.
This paper shares successes and challenges in in communicating about complex property rights issues with a non-technical development audience.
When Nelson Mandela assumed the presidency of South Africa almost 20 years ago, …