Land Tenure and Gender : Approaches and Challenges for Strengthening Rural Women's Land Rights

Namubiru-Mwaura, Evelyn

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ABUSE;    ACCESS TO INFORMATION;    ACCESS TO JUSTICE;    ACCESS TO LAND;    ADVOCACY;   

RP-ID  :  92760

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Land tenure security is crucial forwomen's empowerment and a prerequisite for buildingsecure and resilient communities. Tenure is affected by manyand often contradictory sets of rules, laws, customs,traditions, and perceptions. For most rural women, landtenure is complicated, with access and ownership oftenlayered with barriers present in their daily realities:discriminatory social dynamics and strata, unresponsivelegal systems, lack of economic opportunities, and lack ofvoice in decision making. Yet most policy reform, landmanagement, and development programs disregard theserealities in their interventions, which ultimately increasesland tenure insecurity for rural women. This paper seeks tofurther develop the evidence base for access to and controlover land.