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:
The vision of the Land Portal Foundation is to improve land governance to benefit those with the most insecure land rights and the greatest vulnerability to landlessness through information and knowledge sharing.
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
Presenters
Jennifer
Duncan
Laura
Bermúdez
Panelists
Patricia
Chávez
Julia
Madariaga
Justine
Uvuza
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