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Governance of Tenure
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Increasing women’s access to land is crucial to fight hunger and poverty. However, gender disparities in land access remain significant in most countries, regardless of their level of development. A new FAO database helps to understand the factors that prevent women from accessing land; and to design better policies to effectively address this situation.
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Equal Footing This brief summarizes the need for ensuring equal land rights for women and men in order to reduce hunger and poverty and promote sustainable development.
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Gender issues are often ignored in projects that aim to improve land tenure and land administration. To support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society, this guide shows where and why gender inclusion is important in projects. In order to help inform policy and implementation decisions, it identifies indicators for measuring the quality and quantity of access to land before, during and after an intervention and outlines recommended principles for gender inclusion in land administration projects.
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Gender Issues in Land Tenure This paper attempts to highlight gender-related land tenure and land administration issues that call for a policy framework which will address development challenges and the demographic changes taking place in rural societies.
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The example of Niger This text briefly addresses strengths and weaknesses faced by shift in land tenure policies of the 1980s in the Sahel region and specifically Niger.
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The main objective of this report is to propose possible entry points for interventions, key messages and activities to lay down the basis for a strategy to secure women and children’s rights to inheritance and property. Its intended audience is government institutions, national and international NGOs and community based organizations that could intervene in different areas of work, based on their specific mandates and capacities.
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A Case Study of Muleba and Makete Districts, Tanzania The study sets out to assess the extent to which property and inheritance rights of widows and orphans are violated or protected in the context of HIV and AIDS in two rural communities in Tanzania.
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Lives- HIV and AIDS, women’s land and property rights and livelihoods in southern and East Africa - Narratives and responses This collection of narratives from Southern and East Africa aims to raise awareness not only about the heavy impact of HIV and AIDS in the region but also about the active steps being taken by many grassroots organizations to respond to the crisis.
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The paper investigates children's rights to property and inheritance rights as well as local people's interpretation of children's rights to property in selected communities in Zimbabwe as a case study. It analyses the impact of HIV and AIDS on children's rights to property and community responses to property grabbing.
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This study is intended to explore methods which grassroots organizations use or can use to document their work. The study adopted a creative and unique manner of investigating children’s issues, as it was decided that in order to document and evaluate the nature, magnitude and intensity of property grabbing in Kenya and Zambia, the two grassroots organizations would work directly with orphans and vulnerable children, not only to prepare the workplan but also to conduct the documentation exercise.
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FAO convened a technical meeting to discuss more fully issues pertaining to gender, property rights, and livelihoods in the era of AIDS, inviting a small group of partners from the UN, NGOs and research institutions.
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The research critically examines Zimbabwe’s land and agriculture policies, and the utilization and efficacy of legal redress. It suggests and develops policy responses to cushion the impact of HIV/AIDS on local communities, especially dispossessed women. The study also analyses the critical roles played by women in establishing and managing urban and rural support initiatives.
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This paper explores the gendered relationships between adult death due to HIV/AIDS and changes in land rights for the survivors particularly widows.
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Case Studies from Kenya The study examines the relationship between HIV/AIDS and land rights in Kenya by considering the link between the AIDS-affectedness of a household and a change in its land tenure status and its relation to the legal, economic and cultural context. Finally practical measures to reduce the extent to which HIV/AIDS diminishes tenure security are identified.
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Women's Property Rights and Livelihoods in Zimbabwe This report summarizes the proceedings of an event to commemorate the World Aids Day and 16 days of activism against violence against women; Harare, Zimbabwe.
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| Protecting the property rights of women and children in Mozambique 15 April 2010 - Evictions, confiscation of property and discrimination are among the experiences increasingly reported by widows and orphans in Mozambique. An FAO-commissioned report offers recommendations to secure women’s and children’s rights to property and inheritance.
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| New FAO database eyes gender gap in land rights17 February 2010 - A new database launched by FAO puts the spotlight on one of the major stumbling blocks to rural development – widespread inequalities between men and women in their access to land.
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| Land rights in Africa: Revisiting customary institutions09 November 2009 - In order to support women's struggles for equality, new land legislation in Africa has to include explicit and mandatory mechanisms of inclusion.
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