Detailing case studies from five communities around the world showing promising approaches to securing equal tenure rights for women and the conditions that enabled these communities to do so.
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Evidence Brief: Do Inheritance Reforms Work for Women?
This evidence brief builds on the analysis and findings of our report, “What Works for Women’s Land and Property Rights? What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?” (Scalise & Giovarelli, 2020).
The Gender Gap: Assessing and Measuring the Gender Related Land Inequality
The Land Inequality Initiative Conceptual Paper by Elise Scalise
Uneven Ground: Land Inequality at the Heart of Unequal Societies
Research Findings from The Land Inequality Initiative Synthesis Report
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.
Reconciling Living Customary Law and Democratic Decentralisation to Ensure Women’s Land Rights Security
Full citation: Mnisi, S., "Reconciling Living Customary Law and Democratic Decentralisation to Ensure Women's Land Rights Security," 32 PLAAS POLICY BRIEF (November 2010).
Gender and formalization of native communities in the Peruvian Amazon
CIFOR Infobrief no. 238
Drivers of change in gender norms: An annotated bibliography
"This annotated bibliography highlights selected texts on drivers of change in gender norms. It summarises some texts that outline recent thinking on social norms and that apply this analysis to understanding why inequitable gender norms persist and when they change. The work concentrates on large-scale drivers of gender norm change, such as economic change, education, communications, […]
A stronger voice for women in local land governance: effective approaches in Tanzania, Ghana, and Senegal
Gender-based violence and environment linkages: The violence of inequality
Abstract: Rooted in discriminatory gender norms and laws and shrouded in impunity, gender-based violence (GBV) occurs in all societies as a means of control, subjugation and exploitation that further reinforces gender inequality. This publication establishes that these patterns of gender-based abuse are observed across environmental contexts, affecting the security and well-being of nations, communities and individuals, and jeopardising meeting sustainable development […]
