This quick guide gives a brief overview of the challenges regarding women’s access to land, outlines what needs to be done to increase women’s access to land and provides Sida with some entry points for supporting processes where women gain access to land.
Women’s economic empowerment is essential in promoting equality between women and men and a precondition for sustainable development and pro-poor growth. Women’s economic empowerment can be achieved through equal access to and control over economic resources and opportunities and the elimination of structural gender inequalities.
Women’s unequal access to land and property is a key obstacle to women’s economic empowerment and an area where Sida is stepping up efforts.
Access to land and tenure security is closely linked to other natural resources, such as water and forests, but the scope of this quick guide is restricted to women’s access to land.