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Two Faces of Change: The Need for a Bi-Directional Approach to Improve Women’s Land Rights in Plural Legal Systems

Executive Summary: The complex relationship between law, land rights and customary practices is increasingly recognized as foundational to formulating successful development policies. Similarly, the essential role of women’s economic participation in development and the current trend of gender discriminatory land and inheritance customary practices have prompted domestic civil society organizations in developing countries to use statutory provisions guaranteeing gender equality to improve women’s land tenure security. This chapter examines the particular need for secure land rights for women in the African pluralistic development context, and the mixed results of targeting law reform as a mechanism for change. Relying on primary […]

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Legal Empowerment in Practice: Using Legal Tools to Secure Land Rights in Africa

This report captures the highlights of the international lesson-sharing workshop “Legal empowerment for securing land rights”, which took place in Accra, Ghana, on 13th-14th March 2008. The workshop was jointly organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Food and Agriculture. Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Law Faculty of the University of Ghana.

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