Land & Gender

This paper presents an overview of key issues in the literature on gender justice in the sub-Saharan Africa region. Issues discussed include the exclusion of women from full citizenship status; gender inequalities in property relations, family relations and access to justice; and disregard for women's and men's sexual and reproductive health and rights.

The present Poverty Reduction Strategy and Action Plan (PRSAP) 2007 provides the framework for poverty focused planning and budgeting in the short to medium term. Poverty reduction will be central to all sectoral development plans and the medium term expenditure framework.

"The forest management strategy of Nepal is based on people’s participation, which is known as community forestry. This approach was formally introduced in 1978 to encourage active participation of local people in forest management activities as a means to improve their livelihoods.

This paper analyzes how women’s participation affects institutional outcomes related to the decentralized governance of community forests in Madhya Pradesh, India. The analysis is based on data from a representative sample of 641 cases of joint forest management, India’s flagship program to involve communities in forest governance.

Floodplain wetlands are the major common pool natural resource in Bangladesh. Mostly men fish, and both men and women collect aquatic plants and snails. Case studies contrast a women-only, men-only, and mixed community based organization (CBO), each of which manages a seasonal floodplain wetland.

Un grupo de pobladores de la comunidad Indígena de Térraba en el sur de Costa Rica, se organizan y discuten acerca de los problemas que implicaría la construcción en sus territorios de un mega proyecto hidroeléctrico, por parte del Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE)y el gobierno central de ese país.

En muchas comunidades andinas, se puede encontrar el acceso a la tierra para hombres y mujeres por las siguientes razones: la escasez de la tierra: la tierra del hombre no alcanza para la familia; y la mujer pide sus derechos en el acceso a la tierra, no solo el hombre tiene derechos. El uso de la tierra por lo general en las comunidades andinas es destinado a cultivos y ganadería.