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Decentralisation and women’s land rights in Uganda : country synthesis report; presented at the IDRC Land Symposium, September 14-16, 2010, Nairobi, Kenya

Ahikire, Josephine; Nakirunda, Maureen; Ssewakiryanga, Richard (Centre for Basic Research, Kampala, UG, 2010)

The 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 ...
Customary law and its implications for women's rights and access to land in Africa : the case of anglophone Cameroon

Fonjong, Lotsmart (University of Buea, 2010)

This 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 ...
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 (Rwanda Women Network, Kigali, RW, 2010)

The 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 ...
Youth as a strategy for community mental health in the West Bank

Boyce, Will (2010)

The political context of prolonged conflict, trauma, and warlike conditions, with Israeli Occupation in the West Bank area of Palestine has created an extreme challenge to usual development strategies. This report describes ...
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

Samo, Graça (Forum Mulher, 2010)

The 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 ...
Complimenting the state the role of community land and property watchdog groups in protecting women land rights : case study Gatundu South county Kenya

Shivutse, Violet (GROOTS Kenya, 2010)

The 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 ...
Grassroots women mitigate the effects of climate change : land access movement of South Africa

Tjale, Emily (2010)

Land 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 ...
Gender Policies and Land Rights in Africa: Navigating a Minefield

Tsikata, Dzodzi (2010)

Life cycle changes and circumstances, rural-urban differences, status within lineages, male children and the system of inheritance, are some of many factors which contribute to differences in women’s land tenure challenges. ...
Women’s rights and access to land … : the Women Land Access Trusts (WLATs) experiences …

Khisa Yegon, Catherine (Women Land access Trusts (WLATs), 2010)

Women Land Access Trusts (WLATs) are fully registered Not-For-Profit Organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana and Burundi. They act as financial intermediaries to assist the urban poor and especially poor women – ...
Global consortium on security transformation : final narrative report, 2008-2010

Global Consortium on Security Transformation (Global Consortium on Security Transformation (GCST), 2010)

The GCST fills the gap between citizens’ perceptions and government policies by encouraging the inclusion of new voices within policy discussions and analysis, especially those of the poor and insecure; making sure existing ...
KLA and the Kosovo war : from intra-state conflict to independent country

Bekaj, Armend R. (Berghof Conflict Research, Berlin, DE, 2010)

The research framework views armed struggle as an expansion of political strategies, or as a way for resistance/liberation movements to attain their goals. Kosovo’s conflict has been a protracted one, and in this respect ...
Informe : buenas prácticas en el uso de nuevas tecnologías en el poder judicial

Lillo L., Ricardo (Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Américas (CEJA-JSCA), Santiago, CL, 2010)
From revolutionary war to democratic revolution : the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) in El Salvador

Alvarez, Alberto Martin (Berghof Conflict Research, Berlin, DE, 2010)

Throughout the 1970’s political and socioeconomic exclusion were the basis from which a wide popular movement arose. In 1980, five Salvadorean revolutionary organizations created the Farabundo Martí National Liberation ...
Women’s access to land and their household bargaining power : a comparative action research in patrilineal and matrilineal societies in Malawi; IDRC Symposium, Nairobi, 14th -16th September 2010

Banda, Maggie Kathewera (WOLREC, 2010)

This symposium presentation references a study which examined the co-existence of customary and statutory laws, practices, and norms that govern women’s access to and control over land in Malawi, as well as the relationship ...
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

Kameri-Mbote, Patricia (2010)

The 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, ...
Boletín Fronteras, no. 5, noviembre 2010

FLACSO Ecuador (FLACSO Ecuador, 2010)
Boletín Fronteras, no. 3, mayo 2010

FLACSO Ecuador (FLACSO Ecuador, 2010)
Accès à la terre : un terrain miné pour les femmes; l’exemple du Sénégal, atelier de Nairobi du 13 au 16 septembre 2010

Mbengue Ndiaye, Aminata (2010)
Tanzania : Maasai women gain access to land

Ceburet, John (Farm Radio International, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2010)

Farm Radio Weekly is a news and information service for rural radio broadcasters in sub-Saharan Africa. This online screen-capture/snapshot focuses on the Maasai Women Development Association (MWEDO) which has enabled 850 ...
Health of our heroes : access to sexual and reproductive health services and information of women migrant domestic workers

Sobritchea, Carolyn I.; Subingsubing, Dino Alberto; Quesada, Amara T. (Action for Health Initiatives (ACHIEVE), Quezon City, PH, 2010)

The Philippines is one of the leading sources of migrant workers in the world. Domestic workers comprised about 20 percent (71,557) of total new hires for 2009, of which 97 percent (69,669) were women. Through individual ...

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