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: Richardson, A
Strategies for Incorporating Gender into Savings Groups: CSR and the Yanacocha Mine in Peru
One of three Women, Land, and Mining Case Studies. These individual case studies, summarized together in a separate synthesis report, represent diverse geographies, different scales of mining, different political and cultural contexts, differing project funding sources, a range of stages in the mining lifecycle, and diverse project approaches. They each contain more detail than the overarching synthesis report.
Starting With Women: Findings from Implementation with Artisanal Miners in Karamoja, Uganda
This brief details a project that implemented the Starting With Women (SWW) approach with three mining associations in one district in Karamoja in the northern part of Uganda from 2018-2019. It describes the context of the project, how the SWW approach was adapted to that context, and key initial results. It draws primarily from the project's Baseline Study Report, Mid-Term Review Brief, and Endline Study Report.
Ghana: Gender and the Land Access and Tenure Security Project
One of six case studies informing the synthesis report "Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies."
India: Gender in a Forest Rights Project in Jharkhand
One of six case studies informing the synthesis report "Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies."
Violence Against Women and Housing, Land and Property in Monrovia
Land Tenure Security for Women: Threats and Effectiveness of Interventions
Threats to Women’s Land Tenure Security and Effectiveness of Interventions – Annotated Bibliography
By Kat Oak
This annotated bibliography was created by Amanda Richardson of Resource Equity.
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 […]