Invisible and Excluded: Risks to Informal Spouses from Land Tenure Formalization and Titling Campaigns | Land Portal
Contact details: 
Neil Sorensen, neil.sorensen@landportal.org
Organizers: 
Global Land Alliance

The mission of Global Land Alliance is to enable the prosperity of people and places by advancing learning and practice to achieve land tenure security and the efficient, inclusive and sustainable use of land and natural resources.


We aim to accelerate quality development by resolving land issues with new paradigms of participation and accountability.   We are a think-and-do tank focused on resolving land issues to address four critical development challenges:


Language of the event: 
English

The Global Land Alliance (GLA) and the Land Portal Foundation invite you to join this webinar on 16 March, 2022 to learn about the risks to informal wives during land tenure formalization campaigns. 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
10:00-11:30 AM EST | 3:00-4:30 PM CET

Land rights formalization and titling campaigns have improved land tenure security for millions of rural people over the past decades. But while many have benefitted, others have been left out, and risks are often highest for women. 

With growing global recognition of women’s land rights as a central factor in achieving social development goals, many countries have adopted gender equitable policies in land rights formalization, requiring, for example, joint spousal registration for land held by married couples or for any couple living in a long-term “marriage-like” relationship.

However, marriage informality is a widespread phenomenon, and emerging evidence points to the risk that land rights formalization efforts may systematically exclude rural women who live with partners in informal marriages. Formalization programs that fail to recognize and include these “invisible” wives risk leaving them worse off than they were before, by permanently assigning rights to the land on which they live and work solely to male partners. 

 

Moderator

 

Anne Hennings (Local Knowledge Engagement Coordinator)

Anne Hennings

 

Presenters

 
 
Jennifer Duncan
Jennifer
Duncan

   
 
Laura Bermúdez
Laura
Bermúdez

   

 

Panelists

 
 
Patricia Chaves, Espaco Feminista, Brazil
Patricia
Chávez

   
 
Julia Madariaga
Julia
Madariaga

   
 
 
Justine N. Uvuza Senior Land Policy Advisor and Gender Landesa, UK
Justine
Uvuza

   
 
Nana Ama Yirrah
Nana
Yirrah

   
 

 

 

Moderator:

  • Anne Hennings, Local Knowledge Engagement Coordinator, Land Portal Foundation

Presenters: 

  • Jennifer Duncan, Land rights, justice and social inclusion expert
  • Laura Bermúdez, Technical Consultant, Global Land Alliance

Panelists:

  • Patricia Chaves, Director, Espaco Feminista
  • Julia Madariaga, Anthropologist, Colombia
  • Justine N. Uvuza, Senior Land and Gender Policy Advisor, Landesa, UK
  • Nana Ama Yirrah, Founder and  Executive Director, Colandef

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