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Land tenure, titling, access to land

Land tenure reform & gender equality (pdf 300kb)

This brief explores the reform of land tenure institutions which re-emerged in the 1990s, and asks if these reforms are any more gender sensitive than those of the past?

The paper highlights that a focus of the recent reforms has been on land titling, designed to promote security of tenure and stimulate land markets.

The research finds that the new generation of land tenure reforms is not necessarily more gender equitable than earlier efforts, even though women's ability to gain independent access to land is increasingly.

 

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