gender equity

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Fairness of treatment for women and men according to their respective needs. A gender equity goal often requires measures to rectify the imbalances between the sexes, in particular to compensate for the historical and social disadvantages of women. Equity can be understood as the means, where equality is the end. Equity leads to equality.

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How WOLTS champions changed communities, and changed me - Building a sustainable model for women and community land rights

16 May 2023

Authors:

Dr. Elizabeth Daley

Africa

Tanzania

Asia

Mongolia

Global

The WOLTS experience has given me hope for the future. Change is possible.

Gender and land champions can help - seven years of WOLTS in Tanzania

27 April 2023

Authors:

Joyce Ndakaru

Africa

Eastern Africa

Tanzania

Global

Many rural communities in Tanzania share similar challenges from mining companies and investors. I have seen first-hand how men and women gender and land champions can help.

New challenges for women’s land rights in Africa

11 November 2019

Africa

Second in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) at the ReSAKSS Annual Conference in Lomé, Togo, Nov. 11-13.

Land rights for small producers: a critical solution to the world's food systems

16 July 2021

Authors:

Dr. Agnes M. Kalibata

Dr. Michael Taylor

Global

Our food systems are in urgent need of transformation, as humanity faces one of our biggest challenges yet; feeding a future population of 10 billion people with safe and nutritious food while keeping a healthy planet. Our food system has the power to tip the scales and transform the future of our planet and humankind.

To secure equal rights to land, bring men and women together

13 July 2021

Authors:

Dr. Elizabeth Daley

Tanzania

Mongolia

Global

There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.

Knowledge Management for Equitable and Sustainable Land Governance: launching the LAND-at-scale knowledge management strategy

5 July 2021

Authors:

Lisette Meij

Global

Knowledge management and learning are at the heart of the LAND-at-scale program. On June 29^th at a pre-event of the LANDac conference, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), LANDac and the International Land Coalition (ILC) officially announced their collaboration to implement the knowledge management (KM) component of the program.

How Community & Women’s Land Rights Relate To Climate and COVID-19 Vulnerability and Resilience

2 July 2021

Authors:

Danny Wijnhoud

Kenya

Uganda

Netherlands

Global

This session zoomed in on the local situation and challenges faced by grassroots communities and women in some low-Income countries. It provided an overview of support provided by Civil Society organizations (and governments) facilitating communities, women in particular, to step up the efforts to strengthen their land rights and to generate resilience in face of the climate and COVID-19 challenges they are facing.

More secure land tenure provides much better opportunities to face climate and COVID-19 challenges by investing in high biodiversity local food & income systems.

Why are tribal women in India still robbed of their land rights?

8 March 2021

Authors:

Shipra Deo

India

In Jharkhand, eastern India, women are not entitled to own land and accusations of witchcraft are wielded against them to silence their claims to land

When Talabitti’s husband died in 2016, her claim to the family land seemed to die with him. Though her husband had worked the family land by himself, upon his death his male cousins laid their claim. If Talabitti attempted to make a competing claim, they threatened to drive her away – with violence, if necessary. Sadly, this threat materialized.

Safeguarding Afghan women's property rights

2 March 2021

Afghanistan

By SARAH ELIZABETH ANTOS, MOHAMMAD ZIA, and ENRIQUE PANTOJA

Originally available at World Bank blogs

A Legal Empowerment Approach to Achieving Women’s Land and Natural Resources Rights

7 March 2021

Authors:

Namati Communications

Sierra Leone

When Namati's Community Land Protection project in Sierra Leone's Paki Massabong Chiefdom came to a close, a 'handing over' ceremony was held. Along with village chiefs and local officials, a number of female community members stood to speak. Here are excerpts from what a few of these women shared.

Taking stock of women’s land rights in the wake of COVID-19

15 October 2020

Authors:

Ms. Grace Ananda

Africa

Global

How will you feel when you are discriminated against and denied privileges that other people enjoy? What will be your reaction? Have you asked yourself why indigenous peoples around the world feel they are denied their rights and left behind in development agenda? To answer all this, I had to look at the food security and tenure rights for indigenous women / communities in Africa thirteen years since the establishment of the International Rural Women’s Day