In this recently published article (open access), Cheryl Doss and Ruth Meinzen-Dick have developed a conceptual framework to analyze women’s land tenure security. The article identifies the multiple dimensions of women’s tenure security and outlines the key factors that influence women’s tenure security across different contexts.
Abstract: While strengthening women’s land rights is increasingly on national and international agendas, there is little consensus on how to understand women’s tenure security. Analyses of women’s land rights often use very different definitions of land rights, from formal ownership to women’s management of plots allocated to them by their husbands. This paper identifies aspects of women’s tenure that should be included in indicators. It then provides a conceptual framework to identify the various dimensions of women’s land tenure security and the myriad factors that may influence it. To be able to compare women’s tenure security in different places, we need information on the context, the threats and opportunities facing tenure security, and the action arena that includes both the people who play a role in promoting or limiting women’s tenure security and the resources used in doing so.
Keywords: women’s land rights, legal pluralism, gender, property rights
Reference: Doss, C., & Meinzen-Dick, R. (2020). Land tenure security for women: A conceptual framework. Land Use Policy, 99, 105080
You can find the article here.
Last Updated: 7th January 2021 by Coordinator
JEI | Corona Diaries of the Urban Poor
Corona Diaries of the Urban Poor
Explore the stories here.
Last Updated: 7th January 2021 by Coordinator
PAX | Community-based strategies to protect HLP rights in Syria
Community-based strategies to protect HLP rights in Syria: Lessons learned
This recently published document by PAX’s Benoite Martin outlines the lessons that have been learned in implementing a methodology that aimed at mapping ownership and violations of housing, land and property rights that occurred in the city of Ras Al Ein / Serekaniye in North East Syria.
It outlines improvement that can be made to the process of collecting information among community members and to ensure enhanced involvement of local communities in protecting their HLP rights.
Read more and download the file on the website of the Knowledge Platform Security and Rule of Law (KPSRL), click here.
Last Updated: 7th January 2021 by Coordinator
ETFRN News 60 | Publication volume of articles ‘Restoring African Drylands’
Publication of volume of articles on ‘Restoring African Drylands’
This issue focuses on dryland restoration in the Sahel and the Greater Horn of Africa where levels of poverty, land degradation and out-migration are acute. It collates 36 articles from more than 100 contributors, including some long-term analyses of remarkable increases in tree cover and improved agricultural yields over large areas of the Western Sahel never published before, landscape restoration in Ethiopia, and examples from many other countries.
This edition of ETFRN News 60 is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Netherlands. It is co-published by The European Tropical Forest Research Network and Tropenbos International.
You can find an overview of the individual articles here.
Posted: 7th January 2021 by Coordinator
Land Portal | Country portfolio China launched
Country portfolio of China launched on the Land Portal
China is the first in a series of countries to be featured in a new portfolio on the Land Portal. This peer-reviewed knowledge piece summarizes the history and development of the country’s land governance system and analyses key elements of this system, such as the land legislation, trends in land use, how women access land rights and more.
Visit the portfolio on the Land Portal here!
Posted: 7th January 2021 by Coordinator
Land Use Policy (Vol. 99) | Land tenure security for women: A conceptual framework
In this recently published article (open access), Cheryl Doss and Ruth Meinzen-Dick have developed a conceptual framework to analyze women’s land tenure security. The article identifies the multiple dimensions of women’s tenure security and outlines the key factors that influence women’s tenure security across different contexts.
Abstract: While strengthening women’s land rights is increasingly on national and international agendas, there is little consensus on how to understand women’s tenure security. Analyses of women’s land rights often use very different definitions of land rights, from formal ownership to women’s management of plots allocated to them by their husbands. This paper identifies aspects of women’s tenure that should be included in indicators. It then provides a conceptual framework to identify the various dimensions of women’s land tenure security and the myriad factors that may influence it. To be able to compare women’s tenure security in different places, we need information on the context, the threats and opportunities facing tenure security, and the action arena that includes both the people who play a role in promoting or limiting women’s tenure security and the resources used in doing so.
Keywords: women’s land rights, legal pluralism, gender, property rights
Reference: Doss, C., & Meinzen-Dick, R. (2020). Land tenure security for women: A conceptual framework. Land Use Policy, 99, 105080
You can find the article here.
Last Updated: 7th January 2021 by Coordinator
Videos | Land Tenure Facility: Stories of Resilience 2020
Stories of Resilience 2020
The Land Tenure Facility annual learning exchange had to take place online, late 2020. The 2020 learning exchange focussed on community resilience and land rights progress across 13 Tenure Facility-supported projects in 12 different countries. A series of short videos by the Tenure Facility partners and projects have now been shared online, documenting the impacts of COVID-19 on indigenous and local communities, as well as their partners’ responses to the pandemic.
Watch the videos here!
Last Updated: 7th January 2021 by Coordinator
Blog Prindex | Five things to know about land property rights in East Asia and the Pacific
Five things to know about land property rights in East Asia and the Pacific
Blog post on the Land Portal website, by Ryan Flynn
In 2020 Prindex – the first ever global measure of land and property rights – released its full 140-country dataset. The results are sobering. Almost 1 billion people around the world feel it is likely or very likely that they will lose their land or home within the next five years. Here are five things Prindex data can tell us about land and property rights in the region:
Read more about these issues in the full blog post. Visit the Land Portal website here!
Posted: 11th December 2020 by Coordinator
HIC | 21st Issue of Land Times published
The Housing and Land Rights Network of Habitat International Coalition has published the 21st issue of Land Times. This issue of is rich in positions, perspectives, progress and proposals of civil society in the Middle East/North Africa and the wider world. At least two related themes run in parallel throughout: Land as a source and means of subsistence, and the spirit of resistance amid world’s crises against the consequent loss of land as a threat to human needs and, consequently, human rights related to habitat.
Read the issue here!
Last Updated: 11th December 2020 by Coordinator
IIED | Protecting Indigenous lands: lessons from Chile
In this article by IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development), the Chilean NGO Observatorio Ciudadano shares their story on how they are supporting Indigenous Peoples to combine Human Rights Impact Assessments with investment chain mapping to hold international mining companies accountable. The article shows how these two tools are complementary and help to explain which rights are being violated, which actors are involved, increasing the chance of making an impact.
Read more about the case study here. This case study is part of IIED’s work to assist communities to seek legal redress for land rights violation
Image top of page: The Colla are pastoralists who migrate with their livestock through the high Andean valleys (Photo: Gerardo Berrocal ADKIMVN/Observatorio Ciudadano, CC BY 4.0)
Posted: 11th December 2020 by Coordinator
IIED and CCSI | Technical support on land-based investments for governments and civil society in low- and middle-income countries
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) are pleased to offer technical support on issues related to land-based investment. This new initiative covers multiple sectors including investments in agriculture, extractives, forestry, infrastructure and renewable projects.
Tailored support is available to governments, civil society organizations,and other relevant actors working at the regional, national and local levels. Activities may include:
• training, learning, and multi-stakeholder collaborations on particular opportunities, challenges or good practice;
• support on policy development and implementation, regulatory assessments, legislative drafting or institutional reform; and
• technical and advisory support on specific land-based investment projects.
Technical support is provided by IIED and CCSI, with complementary expertise from additional partners where beneficial.
Read the full call here!