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Item Accès à la terre : un terrain miné pour les femmes; l’exemple du Sénégal, atelier de Nairobi du 13 au 16 septembre 2010(2010) Mbengue Ndiaye, AminataItem Access to land and land based resources among women in pastoralist and forest-dwelling communities in EA : exploring multiple exclusions and their impacts on women’s citizenship(2010) Kameri-Mbote, PatriciaThe study aims to illustrate how women’s entitlements are mediated through sub-national/ethnic citizenship and the implications that this has on their national citizenship, where citizenship is critical for entitlements, participation and protection of women. The presentation provides information regarding women in pastoralist communities. National laws and policies increasingly recognise women’s rights and marginalised communities’ rights to land and land-based resources. More research is necessary to examine the implementation of new policy.Item Action research project : securing women’s access to land in the context of gender biased green revolution policies: Manhiça district, Mozambique; presented to IDRC Symposium, Nairobi, 14-16 Sept(Forum Mulher, 2010) Samo, GraçaThe presentation provides the context of land ownership in Mozambique in terms of state ownership and women’s access to the land for agricultural purposes. The project analyzes how women respond to and negotiate access and control of land in relation to Customary and Statutory Laws. Findings reveal that land use is shifting from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture (land grabbing) and urban development. State investment is in monoculture for exports. Subsistence agriculture is undermined, leading to food insecurity.Item Agrarian land reforms in Zimbabwe : are women beneficiaries or mere agents?(Institute of Environmental Studies (IES), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2011) Sunungurai, Chingarande; Prisca, Mugabe; Krasposy, Kujinga; Esteri, MagaisaThis paper specifically addresses the hypothesis that access to land and forest resources is gendered and poverty-related among land reform migrants in Zimbabwe. Post-independence land reform in Zimbabwe has tended to focus on addressing racial imbalances without due attention to other social issues such as gender imbalances. There is disparity in the access to resettlement land between men and women. The two–year project assesses linkages between migration, rural poverty and forest resource management in Chimanimani district in Zimbabwe. Recommendations include coordination of land registration structures so that policy is easily translated and implemented, with involvement of women as key.Item Beneficiaries or mere agents? women’s agrarian reform experiences in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe(University of Zimbabwe, 2010) Chingarande, Dominica S.; Mugabe, Prisca; Kujinga, Krasposy; Magaisa, EsteriThis brief presentation describes a project that aims to assess the linkages between Fast Track Land Reform (FTLRP), migration, rural poverty and forest resource management in Chimanimani district in Zimbabwe. Men are the sole beneficiaries of land endowments 69% of the time.Item Breaking barriers empowering young women to participate in democratic politics : manual for facilitators(2013)In Sierra Leone there are few women in parliament or in senior reaches of government. This manual aims to train at least 100 university students from four tertiary institutions: University of Sierra Leone; Njala University; Bo Campus; Northern Polytechnic and Eastern Polytechnic. Training comprises leadership, political participation, and how to start an advocacy group regarding issues of young women’s political participation and leadership. The content of the manual has been drawn from various training manuals in the 50/50 Group’s “Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women to Participate in Democratic Politics series.”Item Brief project paper : women’s access to land and their household bargaining power; a comparative action research project in patrilineal and matrilineal societies in Malawi(2011) Kathewera Banda, Maggie; Kamanga-Njikho, Veronica; Malera, Grace; Mauluka, Gift; Kamwano Mazinga, Martino; Ndhlovu, StephenLand is the primary resource in livelihoods and food security in rural Malawi where communal / customary tenure systems predominate. The research reveals that even in matrilineal society where women own land, it is the man who makes crucial decisions. Customary practices and statutory law should to take into account both women’s and men’s land requirements. In cases where statutory laws fail, customary laws ought to enable women to negotiate their land rights, such as asserting the rights of widows to secure land because of the lobola (bride wealth) paid. Interventions would encompass raising awareness of women regarding their rights while also tackling issues of masculinity.Item Complimenting the state the role of community land and property watchdog groups in protecting women land rights : case study Gatundu South county Kenya(GROOTS Kenya, 2010) Shivutse, VioletThe presentation reviews a grassroots women’s group whose actions resulted in the formation of a model now known as community land and property watchdog group (WDG). The women were mobilized by noticing an increasing trend in asset stripping, and disinheritance of widows and orphans, and the further spread of HIV (due to customary law). The WDG are led by affected women who are seeking solutions, and men who by default have to support disinherited women (sisters/mothers) and/or male children who were also stripped of property. The report suggests enhanced grassroots women-led research, including projects on the joint titling of land.Item Customary law and its implications for women's rights and access to land in Africa : the case of anglophone Cameroon(University of Buea, 2010) Fonjong, LotsmartThis presentation focuses on women’s rights to land in the context of the dual customary and statutory practices that regulate land tenure in Cameroon. Statutory laws should be written in simple and engendered language to avoid generalities that reinforce discrimination. Colonialism in Africa altered the status of men and women vis-à-vis land and tenure: rigid sexual division of labour presented the man as the breadwinner and women as the home manager. By extension, the introduction of a market economy gave men control of the land. Decentralized power structures are needed, with enough resources to issue land titles and joint land titles.Item Customary law and its implications for women’s access to land : women’s land rights gains eroded by cultural practices and negative attitude; the Rwanda case(Rwanda Women Network, Kigali, RW, 2010) Rwanda Women NetworkThe most common type of land dispute reported by women is related to inheritance (34%) and Umunani (22%). Umunani is a share of land given to a child when he or she comes of age. Awareness raising about women’s land rights needs to go beyond the provisions of the law to help women understand the intent of the provisions and their justification. The presentation provides a brief review of the study findings.Item Customary law still bars women’s access to land(Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), 2010)This article brings the problems of land administration, women’s rights and access to land, and hereditary law into focus. When her husband died, Namukasa did not struggle with his relatives for a share of his estate; she moved back to her own family home in central Uganda with her children. But when her father died, his sisters/her aunts decided that only her younger brother was entitled to a share in the land, and asked her to leave. Uganda's constitution grants women equality and legal protection against discriminatory traditional practice, but there have been no reforms to the law and the constitutional provision has had little impact.Item Data Base of Women’s Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and National Organizations in Sierra Leone(2013)The database entails a comprehensive list of organizations, their aims and objectives, numbers of full and part-time employees, numbers of volunteers, organization addresses and main contacts.Item Decentralisation and women’s land rights in Uganda : country synthesis report; presented at the IDRC Land Symposium, September 14-16, 2010, Nairobi, Kenya(Centre for Basic Research, Kampala, UG, 2010) Ahikire, Josephine; Nakirunda, Maureen; Ssewakiryanga, RichardThe research examines how local governments are mediating women’s land rights in Uganda. It focuses on land administration systems, and how they shape women’s entitlements; the emerging cultural and political trends regarding women’s land claims; and women’s capacity to engage with institutions of power at the local level. The paper presents findings under three themes: Legal Provisions, Institutions, Processes, and Practices; Women’s organizing and interface with land administration structures; and, Women’s land rights and local culture. The abuse of women’s land rights is not a collapse in cultural systems around land, rather it is a failure of male-led cultural institutionsItem Empowering women through access to and control over land in context of gender biased green revolution policies : action research project in Manhiça district, Mozambique(Fórum Mulher, Maputo, MZ, 2009) Andrade, Ximena; Cristiano, André; Casimiro, Isabel; Jose, Andre; de Almeida, IrenePolitical strategies for the agrarian sector endanger the right to land for smallholder families, and particularly for women, as the ones who traditionally cultivate the land. This research identifies problems faced by women in access to and control of land in the District of Manhiça (Mozambique). Many men leave their families to work in South Africa. The women have no claim to the land and rely on it for food security. They depend on men to control and register it. Recommendations are made in support of literacy, land reforms, legal information, titles and joint titles for women.Item Femmes et la terre : des droits fonciers pour une meilleure vie(CRDI, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2011) Budlender, Debbie; Alma, EileenLe livre se concentre sur les constatations émanant d’études récentes portant sur 12 pays d’Afrique subsaharienne, où les chercheurs ont examiné de nombreux aspects - juridique, coutumier, politique et économique - des droits des femmes à la terre. Des chercheurs d’organisations non gouvernementales (ONG), des universitaires et des militants de la base ont collaboré avec les collectivités, étudiant les expériences vécues par les femmes dans des cadres précis.Item Gender policies and land rights in Africa : navigating a minefield(2010) Tsikata, DzodziThere is a growing consensus that solutions to women’s land tenure problems need to be grounded in local specificities. This brief presentation approaches the problem from the point of view of questioning the policy arena, customary law, and how to strengthen national mechanisms that promote the advancement of women.Item Gendering land tools : evaluating for the delivery of women's security of tenure(Land, Tenure and Property Administration Section, UN Habitat, 2010) Uhlig, BrittaThis presentation provides information about the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN). It focuses on the mandate of the GLTN, to develop pro-poor land management as well as land tenure tools, and to improve the dissemination of knowledge about how to implement security of tenure. The presentation provides details, with a breakdown of categories and tasks involved in this work such as: land rights, records and registration; land use planning; land management, administration and information; land law and enforcement; and land value capture. The Gender Evaluation Criteria is a flexible framework to test the gender responsiveness of land tools.Item Grassroots women mitigate the effects of climate change : land access movement of South Africa(2010) Tjale, EmilyLand Access Movement of South Africa (LAMOSA) is an organisation advocating for land and agrarian rights, and democratization of the process. The presentation reviews a project in which 10 women mapped a village of 500 households, including physical housing. Positive results were effected in terms of housing improvement, food gardens, and women’s participation at the local level. The community mapping provided information and research capacity building with regard to climate change, land, and housing issues. Dialogue with the local municipality included issues of scaling up relief funds for small-scale farmers from natural disasters, securing alternative land, and provision of free seeds.Item Interrogating Young Women's Political Participation in Post-war Sierra Leone : final technical report (February 2011 – August 2013)(Institute for Gender Research and Documentation (INGRADOC), University of Sierra Leone, 2013-09) Fofana Ibrahim, Aisha; Majeks-Walker, Nemata; Thompson, LenaEven though youths formed the core of the rebel movement and comprise over 50% of the population, they have, post-war, remained marginalized and excluded from conventional processes of the state and have had little or no say in decisions that matter to them. The picture is worse for young women. The research seeks to understand factors that have enabled women’s participation thus far, as well as entrenched barriers impeding full participation in the political arena. Participants in the study contributed to its design and implementation.Item Jot suuf, moom suuf, diariño suuf(2010) Diop Sall, FatouThe issue of women’s access to land is important for Senegal where 20 % of PIB (produit intérieur brut /gross domestic product) is from agriculture; 60 % of Senegalese are farmers and among them 53% are women. This study consisted of 1800 participants; 1200 women and 600 men, divided between 14 regions, with cartographic information on land rights. The research shows that where the principal mode of appropriation is inheritance, women are not allowed to have control of resources, or they are excluded. Women are less informed about national laws regarding land tenure than men in all research zones.
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