“The purpose of this study is to understand the legal and policy constraints and opportunities in each of the 17-carbon fund (CF) countries affecting women’s land and forest tenure. The study also explores women’s ability to exercise land and forest rights in statutory and customary systems; how these rights may be affected by the CF programs (ERPs and BSPs); as well as what is needed to further protect and strengthen women’s rights to land and forest tenure along with their ability to govern in the CF countries.” The following documents include Gender Equity in Land and Forest Tenure in REDD+ […]
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Gender Equity in Land and Forest Tenure in REDD+ Programming
Forest tenure pathways to gender equality: A practitioner’s guide
By Kat Oak
Abstract/Description “This practitioner’s guide explains how to promote gender-responsive forest tenure reform in community-based forest regimes. It is aimed at those taking up this challenge in developing countries. There is no one single approach to reforming forest tenure practices for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. Rather, it involves taking advantage of opportunities that emerge in various institutional arenas such as policy and law-making and implementation, government administration, customary or community-based tenure governance, or forest restoration at the landscape scale. This sourcebook provides multiple forms of guidance from: conceptual ideas, operational direction, good practices, case-study insights, research findings and resources […]
On Equal Ground: Promising Practices for Realizing Women’s Rights in Collectively Held Lands
By Kat Oak
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.
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, legal change, social and political mobilisation and conflict, rather than on project-based experience."