This framework is intended to help you assess the current situation for women’s land rights in a specific country, state, or community.
Record Author: Hannay, L
Peru: Supporting Women’s Participation in Community Governance to Strengthen Women’s Rights to Community Land in the Sierra
One of six case studies informing the synthesis report "Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies."
Improving Land Tenure Security for Women: A Starting with Women Approach
By Kat Oak
Full citation: Hannay, L., & Scalise, E. (2014). Improving Land Tenure Security for Women: A Starting with Women Approach. D. Fletschner & H. Kamusiime (contributors). This paper discusses a pragmatic, adaptive framework and approach for understanding and taking action to strengthen women’s land tenure security in the context of customary tenure in northern Uganda. The project team developed a Women’s Land Rights Framework (“Framework”), which provided a specific definition of secure land rights. The Framework defines secure land rights in terms of five elements, which each serves as the basis for distinct, measurable indicators upon which to base the project […]
Violence Against Women and Housing, Land and Property in Monrovia
Realizing Socially-Responsible Investments in Land from a Gender Perspective: Unpacking “Zero Tolerance” to Identify Barriers and Practical Steps to Achieve Equitable and Sustainable Investments
Gender and Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Four Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact Funded Land Projects
Full citation: Giovarelli, R., Hannay, L., Scalise, E., Richardson, A., Seitz, V. and Gaynor, R. (2015). “Gender and Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Four Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact Funded Land Projects.” Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights. – This paper looks at four MCC projects that involved titling land in Benin, Lesotho, Mali, and Namibia and how they ensured women’s rights to land were recognized. It finds that it is important to consider both formal and customary laws and provides examples of both; that it is important to identify all property rights holders, regardless of the overarching objectives […]
Land Policy Reform for Women in Liberia
Full citation: Scalise, E. and Hannay, L., “Land Policy Reform for Women in Liberia,” FOCUS ON AFRICA BRIEF (December 2013).