“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+ […]
Record Country: Indonesia
Gender Equity in Land and Forest Tenure in REDD+ Programming
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.
Gender quotas increase the equality and effectiveness of climate policy interventions
Promoting People Centred Land Governance: Indonesia
Mobilizing Change for Women Within Collective Tenure Regimes
Understanding Gender Relations in the Land Discourse
Compiled and edited by Sunila Singh & Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Land Tenure Rights for Women Under Customary Law
By Kat Oak
Full citation: Benbih, K. and Katz, J. (2014). “Land Tenure Rights for Women Under Customary Law.” – This paper highlights women’s rights issues in accessing land under dual systems. The goal is to make the knowledge resulting from the use of a platform, such as the Global Housing Policy Indicators (GHI), accessible on an open source to all land specialists, NGOs, policy makers, governmental agencies, as well as a global audience, including women around the world. The cases presented illustrate various difficulties to secure land tenure for women. The GHI assessment tool finds first hand evidence of the discrepancies between […]
Indonesia Implementation of Mineral and Coal Mining Business Activities Regulation
Indonesia Coal and Mineral Mining Law
The Gender Implications of Large-Scale Land Deals
Full citation: Behrman, J., Meinzen-Dick, R. and Quisumbing, A. R., “The Gender Implicationsof Large-Scale Land Deals” 17 IFPRI POLICY BRIEF (April 2011). – This article addresses the current information gap on the differential gender effects of large-scale land deals through an overview of the phases of large-scale land deals and discussion of related effects on rural men and women; a presentation of further evidence using several case studies on the gender effects of large-scale deals; and a conclusion that looks at knowledge gaps and areas for further research as well as broad recommendations for gender equitable large-scale land deals. [Threats […]