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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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On Equal Ground: Promising Practices for Realizing Women’s Rights in Collectively Held Lands

EN IGUALDAD DE CONDICIONES. Prácticas prometedoras para la materialización de los derechos de las mujeres a las tierras de posesión colectiva

Reports & Research
February 2021
Africa
Mexico
Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
sustainable development
land tenure
common rights
community land rights
group tenure arrangements
commons
collective ownership
land tenure systems
common property
local communities
women

La gobernanza sostenible de la tierra requiere que todos los miembros de una comunidad, tanto mujeres como hombres, tengan los mismos derechos y voz en las decisiones que afectan a sus tierras de propiedad colectiva.

On Equal Ground: Promising Practices for Realizing Women’s Rights in Collectively Held Lands

On Equal Ground: Promising Practices for Realizing Women’s Rights in Collectively Held Lands

Reports & Research
February 2021
Africa
Mexico
Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
sustainable development
land tenure
common rights
community land rights
group tenure arrangements
commons
collective ownership
land tenure systems
common property
local communities
women

Sustainable land governance requires that all members of a community, both women and men, have equal rights and say in decisions that affect their collectively-held lands. Unfortunately, women around the world have less land ownership and weaker land rights than men – but this can change, and this report shows ways how that can be done.

Projet de recherche-action « Promotion d’une gouvernance foncière inclusive par l’amélioration des droits fonciers des femmes au Sénégal » dans le Bassin arachidier, les Niayes et la Vallée du Fleuve Sénégal

Peer-reviewed publication
January 2021
Senegal
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
land equity
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rights in divorce
equal rights
land governance
land inheritance rights
land investments

L’importance de l’accès à la terre aux femmes n’est plus à démontrer, eu égard aux impératifs liés à la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable.

Securing Tenure in African Cities: Learnings from five small-scale incremental innovations led by local NGOs and social entrepreneurs

Reports & Research
January 2021
Kenya
Tanzania
Democratic Republic of the Congo
South Africa
Côte d'Ivoire
Land & Gender
Urban Tenure
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
public participation
urbanization
urban areas
tenure insecurity

Achieving tenure security, land and property rights in informal urban settlements remains one of the most persistent, intractable development challenges today. The Secure Tenure in African Cities: Micro Funds for Community Innovation initiative launched by Cities Alliance aimed to address this challenge.

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In the Face of Threats and Invasions in the Forests, Communities Defend and Reclaim Their Life Spaces

Policy Papers & Briefs
January 2021
Mozambique
Cameroon
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gabon
Liberia
Nigeria
Brazil
Ecuador
Venezuela
Indonesia
Malaysia
Thailand
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
poverty
sustainable development
land-use planning
environment
climate change
fisheries
deforestation
forest conservation
forest management plans
mining
land dispute
community land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
Indigenous Peoples
land rights activists
local communities
extractive industries
women

The articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are par

Forest tenure pathways to gender equality: A practitioner’s guide

Forest tenure pathways to gender equality: A practitioner’s guide

Reports & Research
January 2021
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land reform
land restoration
land investments
land tenure
formal tenure
property rights
marital property rights
women

This practitioner’s guide explains how to promote gender-responsive forest tenure reform in community-based forest regimes. It is aimed at those taking up this challenge in developing countries. There is no one single approach to reforming forest tenure practices for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Gender dimensions of land tenure reforms in Ethiopia 1995-2020

Reports & Research
December 2020
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
land registration
gender equity
land rights

This chapter investigates how land tenure reforms in Ethiopia have influenced the position of women in terms of land tenure security, access to land, decision-power over land within households, as well as the gendered impacts of these tenure reforms on land investments, land productivity, land renting, and household consumption welfare.

Farm size and gender distribution of land: Evidence from Ethiopian land registry data

Reports & Research
December 2020
Ethiopia
Land & Gender
land registration
gender equity
farmland

Land is an essential asset for the livelihood and welfare of rural households in agriculture-based rural economies. This study utilizes land registry data from the First and Second Stage Land Registration (FSLR and SSLR) Reforms that took place in 1998 and 2016 in Tigray region of Ethiopia, the first region in Ethiopia to implement land registration and certification.