The Land Portal celebrates the 2013 International Women’s Day by integrating the OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) in its country pages | Land Portal

On March 8th 2013, women and men of the world celebrate the International Women’s Day. The Land Portal honours those women who, across time and countries, have struggled and are struggling for women’s rights to dignity, equality and participation. In particular those who, among activists, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers, have worked to give women equal rights and voice in decisions over land governance.

Whilst the Committee on the Status of Women is hosting States and civil society in New York to discuss how to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women, a special tribute should be paid to those women that have been discriminated, harassed, abused or even killed by spouses, relatives, local communities, land grabbers, institutions for claiming their legitimate land rights.

The Land Portal believes in the power of knowledge and information to promote social change. Knowing what happens on the ground through qualitative and quantitative data is a precondition to generate action, build alliances, device new policies and laws, facilitate a dialogue that is truly gender-sensitive. The Land Portal is committed to include information on land governance disaggregated by gender and feature this information prominently on its pages. Users are introduced to data on women’s land rights and asked to observe the hurdles women still face to empowerment.

To this end, in partnership with the International Land Coalition (ILC) and Wikigender, the Land Portal has integrated selected data from the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), including info on discriminatory family code, inheritance, resource and entitlements, access to land, and civil liberties.

To view an example on how the data has been integrated, visit: http://landportal.info/area/africa/southern-africa/madagascar

The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) was developed by the OECD Development Centre, along with Wikigender, and measures gender inequality by focusing on the root causes behind these inequalities in 119 countries. Details on methodology, definitions, and country profiles can be found on http://genderindex.org/. Discussions on specific issues related to the SIGI are held on the on-line platform Wikigender. The OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index page on the Land Portal can be seen at http://landportal.info/page/oecd-social-and-institutions-gender-index-sigi-land-portal

Wikigender is a partner of the Land Portal. This integration follows similar partnerships with FAO (Gender and Land Rights Database, FAOLEX, FAO’s database on food and agriculture legislation, the FAO Corporate Document Repository), the World Bank, and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

We invite to join the gender page of the Land Portal, facilitated by ILC, and share and find information on women’s land rights with a growing community of land professionals, activists and researchers.

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