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Enhancing women’s land rights through legal empowerment
Lessons learned from community-based activities
Why women’s land rights?
1 Women’s human rights are violated
2 Women’s key role in food security and natural resource management is not recognised
“If women had the same access to productive resources as men, they would increase yields on their farms by 20-30 percent. This could raise total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5-4 percent, which could in turn reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12-17 percent” (FAO, 2011: 5)
Challenges and priorities in advancing women’s land rights
1 Understanding rights: the importance of information
2 Claiming rights: the importance of monitoring and mobilisation
3 Guaranteeing rights: the importance of enabling environments and implementation
VGGT Principles of Implementation
Why legal empowerment?
Equity and justice (3B.3)
Recognizing that equality between individuals may require […] taking positive action, including empowerment, in order to promote equitable tenure rights and access to land, fisheries and forests, for all, women and men […]
Gender equality(3B.4)
Ensure the equal right of women and men to the enjoyment of all human rights, while […] taking specific measures aimed at accelerating de facto equality when necessary.
The use of law to specifically strengthen the disadvantaged (IDLO, 2010)
Community-based activities promoting the legal empowerment of rural women Objective and features
•Document innovative ways of promoting women’s land rights and facilitate knowledge sharing and mutual learning;
•Piloting activities/short timeframe/small budget
•Community-based activities
Partners
CINEP Oxfam GB SARRA SWADHINA UEFA
Colombia Pakistan India India DR Congo
CINEP, Colombia, Women’s empowerment to exercise their land rights in the Cauca Valley
CINEP, Colombia, Women’s empowerment to exercise their land rights in the Cauca Valley
OXFAM GB, Pakistan, Promoting women’s property rights and ownership in Pakistan
CINEP, Colombia, Women’s empowerment to exercise their land rights in the Cauca Valley
SARRA, India, Women’s empowerment in tribal communities
CINEP, Colombia, Women’s empowerment to exercise their land rights in the Cauca Valley
SWADHINA, India, Creating awareness to bring land rights to grassroots women
CINEP, Colombia, Women’s empowerment to exercise their land rights in the Cauca Valley
UEFA, DR Congo, Sensitise authorities and communities on the land rights of pygmy women
Lessons learned
1 Never underestimate women’s enthusiasm to learn
2 Prioritise capacity-building targeted to women
3 Recognise the importance of accessible information
4 Pay attention to perceptions of gender equality
5 Address different levels appropriately
6 Be aware of the role CSOs can play
7 Follow through to move from empowerment toward emancipation
8 Encourage horizontal learning and collective action
9 Bear in mind the complexity of land tenure security
Opportunities
Women’s human rights are violated
Understanding rights
CEDAWClaiming rights
Guaranteeing rights
Problem Objective Tool
Women’s key role in food security and natural resource management is
not recognised
Understanding the guidelines
VGGTClaiming the guidelines
Implementing the guidelines
Thank [email protected]
If you want to know more on the ILC’s Women’s Land Rights Initiative, please visit www.landcoalition.org