This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place in these settlements and analyses their implications for women. She proceeds to raise >> Read more
Funding: Property Rights
Omidyar Network and Ashoka’s Changemakers invite you to join the movement to unleash individual opportunity through property rights. Secure rights to land can provide life-altering benefits to the poor, including economic opportunity, enhanced identity, and personal dignity. If you are a changemaker who is increasing access to property rights—for individuals or communities, in rural or >> Read more
News: Pakistan–Slowly, Women Gain Ground through Land Ownership
By Zofeen Ebrahim IPS Genderwire BADIN, Pakistan, Jul 13, 2010 (IPS) - "I told my husband if he ever hits me (again), I’ll pack up and go to my parents who live just round the corner, and he will lose the land I got," says Jannat Gul of Tando Bagho village here in this southern >> Read more
News: Grassroots Evaluate Successes and Leaders Shape the Way Forward at the 2010 WLLA Land Academy
On Feb 8th through 12th of February, 40 grassroots women leaders and NGO partners from 22 organizations from 13 African countries, organized in community-based grassroots groups, women's savings clubs, NGOs and women's alliances, came together for the 3rd Annual Land Academy organized by the Huairou Commission, through the Women's Land Link Africa Initiative, held in >> Read more
News: Sénégal– Accès à la terre, Les portes des commissions domaniales s’ouvrent aux femmes
Les hommes n’ont plus l’exclusivité de l’accès à la terre, depuis le 7 janvier 2001. La loi sur la parité votée, le vendredi 14 mai 2010, permet aux femmes de siéger dans les commissions locales de distribution des terres. AllAfrica, 15 Juin 2010 Par Idrissa Sane “Jusqu’à une période récente, l’accès à la terre était >> Read more
News: Uganda: Women’s land rights movement formed
Source: ILC Advocates of Women’s Land Rights including Women’s NGOs, members of the Judiciary, and key Government Departments pertinent to women’s issues, have launched the Women’s Land Rights Movement, a loose coalition under the auspices of the Uganda Land Alliance fighting for the common purpose of protecting women’s rights over land. A Working Group that >> Read more
News: Land investments are wholesale sell-outs for women farmers
“Uncertainty around food and fuel supply globally has sparked investor interest in the acquisition of large parcels of productive land around the world, for commercial production or long-term investment, writes Nidhi Tandon. But these developments, which effectively take land away from local farmers and in many cases perpetuate ‘environmentally damaging farming methods’, threaten to have >> Read more
Publication: Innovations in Land Rights, Recognition, Administration & Governance
Joint Organizational Discussion Paper—Issue 2 THE WORLD BANK, GLTN, FIG, AND FAO. Authors: Klaus Deininger, Clarissa Augustinus, Stig Enemark, and Paul munro-faure This volume is a product of the Annual Conference on Land Policy and Administration that is jointly organized by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank, the Global Land Tool Network, >> Read more
Publication: Closing the gender land gap The effects of land-titling for women in Peru
Authors: Daniela Orge Fuentes and Henrik Wiig ABSTRACT: Land formalization reforms in developing countries are often criticized for cementing historically unequal property rights between the sexes. The Peruvian formalization law is gender neutral and was only supposed to formalize existing informal property rights. However, protests from the feminist movement led the implementing agency to favour >> Read more
Publication: Gender and Land Tenure
One Billion Rising: Law, Land and the Alleviation of Global Poverty (AUP - Leiden University Press) (Paperback) Roy Prosterman (Editor), Robert Mitchell (Editor), Timothy Hanstad (Editor) Chapter 5 on Gender and Land Tenure by Renee Giovarelli. To access preview via google books
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