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Securing Community Land Rights: Priorities and Opportunities to Advance Climate And Sustainable Development Goals

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Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2017
Global
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia

Legally recognized and secure land and resource rights are fundamental to the advancement of global peace, prosperity, and sustainability. From the development of human cultures to the realization of democracy itself, tenure security underpins the very fabric of human society and our relationship to the natural environment.

Presidential Decree No. 208/17 regulating the principles and norms for the organization and functioning of Local Government Bodies, establishing the respective organizational structures, as well as the operational mechanisms.

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Regulations
September, 2017
Angola

This Presidential Decree, consisting of 156 articles divided into seven Chapters and one Annex, regulates the principles and norms for the organization and functioning of Local Government Bodies, establishing the respective organizational structures, as well as their operational mechanisms in the field of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Environment, Health, Social Security, Gender Equality,

Gender and Politics in Africa: an interview with Marjorie Mbilinyi

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Reports & Research
August, 2017
Africa

ROAPE’s Janet Bujra questions Marjorie Mbilinyi about her fifty years of campaigning against patriarchal oppression on many fronts in Tanzania. Mbilinyi traces the legitimisation of feminism as a means to understand and a way to organise for and with women. This is not a feminism lifted from Europe or the US, but one generated in response to Tanzanian and African realities.

Strategy to effectively engage women and vulnerable groups during SLLC

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Reports & Research
July, 2017
Ethiopia

This study assesses the engagement of women and vulnerable groups (VGs) during the second level land certification (SLLC) process and how best to involve women and VGs to ensure their involvement and tenure security..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.

How can women and people from vulnerable groups be encouraged to take a more active part in the SLLC process?

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Reports & Research
July, 2017
Ethiopia

This summary of LIFTs Strategy to Effectively Engage Women and Vulnerable Groups During SLLC assesses the engagement of women and vulnerable groups (VGs) during the second level land certification (SLLC) PROCESS and how best to involve women and VGs to ensure their involvement and tenure security..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programm

Gender and the commons: Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project

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Conference Papers & Reports
July, 2017
Tanzania
Africa
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa

In pastoral societies women face many challenges. Some describe these as a ‘double burden’ –
that is, as pastoralists and as women. However, pastoral women may obtain a significant degree
of protection from customary law even if customary institutions are male-dominated. In periods

Women’s land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction

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Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2017
Global

Land is an important asset for rural households, and having secure land rights is important for poverty reduction. Despite the large body of literature on the relationship between land tenure security, livelihoods, and poverty, most of this literature is based on household-level data and does not consider possible intrahousehold inequalities in land ownership.

2017 High Level Political Forum Thematic review of SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

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Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2017
Global

The gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presents an enormous opportunity to achieve gender equality, end poverty and hunger, combat inequalities within and among countries, build peaceful, just and inclusive societies, protect and promote human rights, and ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources.