The World Bank Group Forest Carbon Partnership Facility commissioned Resource Equity to undertake these studies for the project, Understanding and Strengthening Gender Equity in Land and Forest Tenure in REDD+. These previously unpublished studies were used to inform the project’s final synthesis report. Included Countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Republic of Congo, Vietnam. Authors: Bledsoe, D.; Giovarelli, R.; Lastrarria-Cornhill, S.; Rugadya, M.; Scalise, E.
Record Author: Scalise, E
Possibilities for Gender Equity in Land and Forest Tenure in REDD+ Programming
What Works for Women’s Land and Property Rights? What we know and what we need to know
English, Spanish, and French versions currently available.
Women, Land, and Mining: Effective Strategies for Improved Global Practice
Synthesis Report Based on Findings from Three Global Case Studies; Côte d’Ivoire, Papua New Guinea, and Peru.
Papua New Guinea: Seeking Gender Equity in Distribution of Mining Benefits to Communities
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.
Developing a National Land Policy in Uganda: A Learning Process
Full citation: Rugadya, M. and Scalise, E., "Developing a National Land Policy in Uganda: A Learning Process," LANDESA REPORT (2013).
Kyrgyz Republic: Women and Community Pasture Management
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 […]
Key Points and Conclusions from the Women’s Land Rights Research Consortium Expert Group Meeting
This Synthesis Report covers key points and gaps identified in the annotated bibliography, research themes and questions, which were discussed with and supplemented by the expert group. It also includes a list of other observations made at the expert group meeting related to laying the foundation for the Research Consortium as it begins activities and provides an overview of the communications assessment and needs uncovered in the participant survey and in subsequent discussion by the expert group.
Global Scaling up of Women’s Land Rights
Description: Gender Resource Facility in collaboration with Kadaster International, LANDac, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oxfam Novib & Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation. November 18, 2016 Final Version for Dissemination to Participants of the Expert Meeting.
Women’s Land Rights in the Context of Land Tenure Reform: Legal Considerations
This is an expert paper prepared for the UN WOMEN expert group meeting “Good Practices in Realizing Women’s Rights to Productive Resources, with a focus on Land” in Geneva, Switzerland 25-27 June 2012.