Threats to Women's Land Tenure Security and Effectiveness of Interventions - Annotated Bibliography
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>Legal and cultural legitimacy
>Resilience to change and durability
>Exercisability and Enforceability
The threat that has been studied the most appears to be women’s lack of legal documentation to land. The interventions, joint titling of spouses (legally married or not) and individual titling of women have been studied in the African, Asian, and Latin American context.
Threat: Lack of legally documented rights to land
Interventions that focus on making women less vulnerable to changes in their social status or family structure generally focus either on improving legislation or on informing and educating women about legislation that protects women’s land rights even when their status changes.
Threat: Women lose rights to land if their status changes
Interventions may focus on making sure that women can access their rights, have the ability and means to present a claim, be guaranteed that cases will be heard, and that the resulting decision will be implemented. This includes ensuring that women’s land rights can be exercised without additional layers of approval.
Threat: Women do not participate in governance of natural resources
To jump to one of the sections on this page use the below links:
>Legal and cultural legitimacy
>Resilience to change and durability
>Exercisability and Enforceability
The threat that has been studied the most appears to be women’s lack of legal documentation to land. The interventions, joint titling of spouses (legally married or not) and individual titling of women have been studied in the African, Asian, and Latin American context.
Threat: Lack of legally documented rights to land
Interventions that focus on making women less vulnerable to changes in their social status or family structure generally focus either on improving legislation or on informing and educating women about legislation that protects women’s land rights even when their status changes.
Threat: Women lose rights to land if their status changes
Interventions may focus on making sure that women can access their rights, have the ability and means to present a claim, be guaranteed that cases will be heard, and that the resulting decision will be implemented. This includes ensuring that women’s land rights can be exercised without additional layers of approval.
Threat: Women do not participate in governance of natural resources
Keywords
land tenure
gender equity
governance
women
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