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    Reconciling Living Customary Law and Democratic Decentralisation to Ensure Women's Land Rights Security

    "The recent Constitutional Court judgment rendering the Communal Land Rights Act (CLARA) unconstitutional must not be allowed to throw decentralisation policy making into disarray. Decentralisation holds much potential for lively, participatory demo…

    Sindiso Mnisi

    • Women's Land Rights
    • Living Customary Law
    • Communal Land Rights Act
    • Land reform
    • Customary law
    • Constitutional law
    • Democratization
    6 pages

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    The Communal Land Rights Act and Women: Does the Act Remedy or Entrench Discrimination and the Distortion of the Customary?

    "This paper discusses the likely impact of the Communal Land Rights Act (CLRA) of 2004 on the land rights of rural women. It asks whether the Act is likely to enhance or undermine tenure security, not only for women, but for rural people in general.…

    Aninka Claassens

    • Traditional Councils
    • Women's Land Rights
    • Tenure Reform
    • Land use--Economic aspects
    • Customary law
    • Accountability
    50 pages

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    Gender Equality in Tanzania: Uproar and Perceived Progress

    Gender makes headlines in Tanzania, as when the president attacks birth control and endorses kicking pregnant girls out of school or when fake fingernails and eyelashes are banned from Parliament. Less uproar accompanies government action that act…

    Gugu Nonjinge

    • Gender equality
    • Women's Land Rights
    • Women in politics
    • Equality
    • Women's rights
    • Right to education
    10 pages

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    Women's Land Rights in Africa: Scorecard 2019

    This scorecard measures how committed governments are to women’s land rights in each country. It is comparing how women are confronting their governments about land rights. It learns how women are tackling their land rights issues and shares lesson…

    Sue Mbaya

    • Women's Land Rights
    • Land reform
    • Women's rights
    6 pages

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    Allouer des Terres aux Femmes: Un Bienfait pour L’économie Congolaise / Allocating Land to Women: Beneficial for the Congolese Economy.

    The key messages of this policy brief is to establish a policy to increase the allocation of land to women by 40% would promote economic diversification by increasing the contribution of the agricultural sector to GDP. A policy of cash transfers fr…

    Christian Lukineyo Joshi

    Robert Luanda Baroki

    Anastasie Bulumba Mariam

    Aimérance Mapendo Murairi

    Faustin Kambale Luhungu

    Zizina Shabani Zita Maua

    • Droits fonciere des femmes
    • Women's Land Rights
    • Land Ownership
    • Des Droits de Propriété Foncière
    • Gender imbalance
    • Economic development
    • Land use--Economic aspects
    3 pages

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    Action Research Project: “Promoting Inclusive Land Governance through Improvement of Women's Land Rights in Senegal"

    In Senegal, the LSLA phenomenon has gained momentum with the government’s implementation of a new policy orientation that has materialized with programs such as the Return to Agriculture (REVA) in 2006 and the Great Offensive for Food and Abundanc…

    Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR)

    • Land Governance
    • Women's Land Rights
    • Gender equality
    • Land use--Economic aspects
    • Land reform
    • Economic development
    56 pages

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    Projet de Recherche-Action: "Promotion d'une Gouvernance Fonciere Inclusive par l'Amelioration des Droit Foncieres des Femmes au Senegal" / “Promoting Inclusive Land Governance through the Improvement of Women's Land Rights in Senegal"

    The three municipalities are all confronted with the phenomenon of LSLA but with a different level. For Darou Khoudoss and Ross Béthio this phenomenon is well established, for Toubacouta, on the other hand, it is incipient but the pressure is incr…

    Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR)

    • la Gouvernance Fonciere
    • Land Governance
    • Droits fonciere des femmes
    • Women's Land Rights
    • Gender Equality
    • Economic development
    • Land reform
    • Land use--Economic aspects
    56 pages

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    Climate Change Vulnerability and Women's Land Rights: The Case of Arua District

    Climate change presents one of the most challenging threats to sustainable development for all categories of individuals and communities. In respect to gender, women and girls constitute one of the most vulnerable categories of populations. However,…

    Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE)

    • Women's Land Rights
    • Climate Vulnerability
    • Gender
    • Climatic changes
    81 pages

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