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Mainstreaming Gender Issues in Land Administration – Awareness, Attention and Action

The paper follows up on the FIG-Guidelines on Women’s Access to Land and suggests for the surveying community courses of action for specific mainstreaming tasks. Research on land tenure in a socio-economic context has been done by different professional groups (lawyers, economists, anthropologists, etc.). It is proposed to work towards mainstreaming of gender issues by using this knowledge and prepare new literature on land tenure, cadastre and land administration, taking into account the needs of practitioners.

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Land Registration in Ethiopia: Early Impacts on Women

“This study focuses on how Ethiopian land law has been implemented in practice. In particular, it examines how the position of women, in cases of divorce or death of their husbands, may have changed and whether the new laws have impacts on the empowerment of women. Gender impacts are also captured by comparing the situation of the female headed households with other households.”

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