Securing women’s rights, access to, and control over housing, land, and property (HLP) are important for livelihood generation, food security, a store of wealth, and other economic benefits. Ensuring women’s HLP rights also provides social benefits, such as improved bargaining power within the household and community. Data on women’s rights to HLP is limited, but available evidence from 53 countries shows that within those countries, over 70 percent of women do not own any land. Without action, women are at risk of being left farther behind.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2023Global
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2023Global
ILC and Welthungerhilfe with support from GIZ celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Guidelines’ endorsement by launching the VGGT+10 Initiative with the goal to take stock and assess to which degree the Guidelines have been used as an orientation for national -level tenure reform processes and as a tool to contribute to tenure security. We also aimed at mobilizing and renewing concrete political commitments and to identifying the next steps for the further application of the Guidelines.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJuly, 2020Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania
After more than ten years of hectic debates on international ‘land grabs’, academic interest in collapsed land deals or projects with unexpected results is growing. According to the Land Matrix, Tanzania is one of the target countries for such deals, with a number ‘abandoned’ or delayed and projects whose status is unknown. Labelling land deals as ‘failed’ poses conceptual and methodological challenges as long as the criteria for ‘failure’ are undefined.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2019Global
This report uses unique household survey data from 24,870 respondents in 33 countries in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia to investigate correlations between demographic, economic and spatial characteristics and perceived tenure insecurity.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2023Mali
Les autorités maliennes ont mis en place des commissions foncières (CoFo) en vue de prévenir et de résoudre les conflits fonciers. Ces commissions sont confrontées à des problèmes de fonctionnement liés au manque de ressources financières. De fait, de nombreuses CoFo ne sont pas opérationnelles ; seules quelques-unes fonctionnent en mode projet grâce au soutien financier des partenaires techniques et financiers au développement.
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Accès sécurisé à la terre
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2023MaliAu Mali, les femmes sont confrontées à un problème d’accès sécurisé à la terre. Pour le résoudre, il faut d’abord utiliser cet accès des femmes à la terre comme un indicateur de bonne gouvernance locale et un gage de l’atteinte des Objectifs de développement durable. En plus, il faut plaidoyer auprès des légitimités traditionnelles pour faciliter cet accès aux terres agricoles. Il faut aussi réduire les inégalités entre hommes et femmes, abaisser l’indice de pauvreté et assurer l’effectivité de la mise en œuvre des dispositions législatives et réglementaires et la consolidation des acquis.
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Um retrato da Funai sob o governo Bolsonaro
Journal Articles & BooksJune, 2022South America, BrazilSob o governo Bolsonaro, a Fundação Nacional do Índio (Funai) tem implementado uma política que cabe chamar de anti-indigenista. Contraditório, chocante, mas verdadeiro, esse é o tema do dossiê que se apresenta, fruto da parceria entre a Indigenistas Associados (INA), associação de servidores da Funai fundada em 2017, e o Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos (Inesc), organização não governamental atuante há 42 anos nos espaços de discussão de políticas públicas, direitos humanos e orçamento.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2020Global
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1.4.2 and 5.A.1 refer to the strengthening of women’s land and property rights as a fundamental pathway towards poverty reduction and women’s empowerment. Securing women’s land and property rights can increase agricultural productivity, incentivise the adoption of climate-resilient natural resource management and increase household spending on health and education.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2021Global
The aim of this paper is to consolidate lessons from existing evidence that demonstrates the role of equitable access and tenure security to land in achieving sustainable food systems transformation, and subsequently, for the overall achievement of the SDGs. It makes the case of the importance of reforming and securing access and tenure rights to land and natural resources.
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Reports & ResearchDecember, 2021NigerLocated in the eastern part of Niger, Diffa region is a vast semi-arid expanse, where the balance between agricultural and pastoral activities is being disrupted by new competition for natural resources and also by conflict between indigenous livestock farmers and transhumant pastoralists.
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