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IMPLEMENTING CONSTITUTIONAL LAND PROVISIONS NOW TO ENABLE MORE WOMEN TO OWN LAND

Policy Papers & Briefs
maart, 2017
Kenya

Implementing Constitutional Land Provisions Now to Enable More Women to Own Land. March 8 is celebrated as the International Women’s Day – an event that celebrates women’s achievements on many scores ranging from the political to the social, and at the same time calling for gender equality.

WOMEN TO KILIMANJARO: STAND UP FOR WOMEN LAND RIGHTS

Policy Papers & Briefs
maart, 2017
Kenya

The Kilimanjaro Initiative is a rural women’s mobilisation from across Africa towards an iconic moment at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro in October 2016. The Kilimanjaro Initiative was conceived by the Rural Women during a meeting of rural women and civil society organisations in 2012, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This initiative aims to create space for us as rural women to be able to participate in decision making processes about land and natural resources.

THE RURAL WOMEN’S LAND RIGHTS CHARTER: TOWARDS ACHIEVING WOMEN'S LAND RIGHTS

Journal Articles & Books
maart, 2017
Kenya

The Rural Women’s Land Rights Charter of Kenya is a bold expression of the concerns/ issues and their aspirations of women living in rural areas on land matters. At the core of these aspirations is the  realization of secure and protected women’s land rights and security for their land-based livelihoods. Women from rural areas in 24 counties in Kenya highlighted their issues and expressed the kind of change they would like to see on matters land through the Rural Women’s Land Rights Charter.

Building Evidence on Rural Women Struggles for Land Rights in Tanzania

Conference Papers & Reports
februari, 2017
Tanzania

Land is one of the terrains of struggle for most rural women in Africa because of its importance in sustaining rural livelihoods, and social-cultural and geopolitical factors that hinder women from enjoying land rights. Even when there are progressive land laws, as it is for Tanzania, women have not really enjoyed their rights. However, this has not stopped women to keep fighting for their land rights.  They have sought their own approaches by leveraging opportunities within traditional, religious, and formal systems standing for their rights. 


Contextualizing International Voluntary Guidelines into Country Specific Land Investment Governance Systems: Experience from Tanzania

Conference Papers & Reports
februari, 2017
Tanzania

This preliminary study involved consultation of responsible district government officials and relevant Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on various issues related to land and investments. Among other areas, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) was selected as a study site and study used the Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) to obtain information. Questionnaire designed reflected land investment  governance  process  thematic  areas.

Criando capacidades para o desenvolvimento: o género no acesso aos recursos produtivos no meio rural em Moçambique

Journal Articles & Books
februari, 2017
Mozambique

Moçambique é um país repleto de instrumentos – políticas, estratégias, pacotes legislativos – para o desenvolvimento. O combate à pobreza, a desigualdade de género, o desenvolvimento rural, entre outros, são temas tratados nesse leque de instrumentos orientadores. Este trabalho tem como objectivo discutir a integração da mulher camponesa no processo de desenvolvimento rural, tendo em consideração as constantes preocupações com a equidade de género.

Perfil socio-económico dos pequenos agricultores do sul de Moçambique realidades de Chókwe, Guijá e KaMavota

Journal Articles & Books
februari, 2017
Mozambique

Em vários países em desenvolvimento, a agricultura é a principal actividade e é tida como a base para o crescimento das suas economias. Em Moçambique, apesar do emergente crescimento da indústria extractiva nos últimos anos e da redução considerável da percentagem de pessoas que tem a agricultura como actividade principal (de 60% em 2005 para 54% em 2012, segundo o Inquérito Agrário Integrado de 2012), a actividade agrícola continua a ser o principal sector económico, empregando a maior a parte da população, sobretudo no meio rural.

Securing land inheritance and land rights for women in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
februari, 2017
Kenya

Women face many problems with regard to land inheritance and land rights in Kenya. Individual and community land ownership do not favour women. The reason for this is that ownership of land is patrilineal, which means that fathers share land amongst sons, while excluding daughters. This practice is traditionally widespread and partly accepted although it goes against the interest of women and is prohibited by the constitution.

WOMEN LAND AND PROPERTY RIGHTS IN KENYA

Journal Articles & Books
februari, 2017
Kenya

While women’s rights to land and property are protected under the Kenyan Constitution of 2010 and in various national statutes, in practice, women remain disadvantaged and discriminated. The main source of restriction is customary laws and practices, which continue to prohibit women from owning or inheriting land and other forms of property.

Land for infrastructure development: compulsory acquisition and compensation of unregistered/undocumented land in Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
februari, 2017
Kenya

Kenya’s Vision 2030 aims at transforming the country into a newly industrialized middle income country


and infrastructural development is high on the agenda to achieve this. Competing land uses and existing


interests in land make the use of eminent domain by government in acquiring land inevitable. However


most of the land earmarked for compulsory acquisition comprises of un- registered land whose interests