Enhancing Legal Empowerment and Customary Law in Rwanda: Report of a Pilot Project concerning Community-level Dispute Resolution and Women’s Land Rights

We present a report on the results of a 10-month pilot project conducted in North- Western Rwanda that aimed to explore fruitful ways to engage with customary law in order to empower rural communities and rural women in particular. The focus is on the effectiveness of land dispute resolution at the community level and the respect for women’s formally guaranteed land rights by the institutions involved.