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31/07/2020

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27/07/2020

Land does not depreciate in value, in some cases land can easily lose its market value price.
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21/07/2020

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21/07/2020

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21/07/2020

* Supporting women’s groups or organizations advo-
cating gender equality within customary systems.
* Supporting change agents such as religious, cultural
and traditional leaders, both men and women, who
question discriminatory norms.
* Promoting, through dialogue, women’s participation
in bodies responsible for interpreting customary law.
Credit-Sida

21/07/2020

* Supporting local analysis on the effects of current
legislation on land, divorce and inheritance for wom-
en’s right to land and the consequences of proposed
legal change.
* Assisting in building knowledge and capacity on
gender equality in right to land and the upcoming
legislative process among actors such as legislators,
civil society, and land users.
* Encouraging legislation to make joint titling (by
spouses), of private property or user rights, the de-
fault option in the registration process.
* Facilitating the participation of civil society, gender
experts, and female local leaders in order to ensure a
critical mass of women’s representation.
* When a country undertakes legal reform, in dialogue
raising the need to safeguard women’s de jure rights
according to signed international legal frameworks
such as the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
and stay clear from contradictions in statutory laws.
Customary law is often not subject to a legislative pro-
cess and efforts to improve women’s land rights need to
focus on the interpretation of customary law. Sida can
promote women’s right to land in customary law by:

21/07/2020

Land legislation
A number of different laws regulate women’s right to
land. Ensuring equal rights could begin with analyzing
how existing land legislation, marital (including divorce)
law and inheritance laws interact in terms of women’s
right to land and how statutory law can promote women’s
rights irrespective of their marital status. The drafting of
International conventions related to
gender and right to land
 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
 Beijing Platform for Action
 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Dis-
crimination against Women, Article 16
 Economic and Social Council Commission on the
Status of Women Resolution 42/1, Human Rights and
land rights discrimination
 Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Art.11 (1966)
 Habitat II Conference, Istanbul 1996 Preamble
 Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements (esp.
Par.7) III Commitments D
 Rome Declaration on World Food Security (1996)
 World Food Summit. “African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights” (1986). The United Nations Commis-
sion on Human Rights Resolution 2002/49
new laws on tenure, land redistribution, land reform (for
example in post-conflict settings) and family law, includ-
ing marital and inheritance laws, provides an opening
toward a more gender equal legal framework. Sida can
contribute to the preparatory work of the formal legisla-
tive process by:
-reference

21/07/2020

There is a direct relationship between women’s
right to land, economic empowerment, food se-
curity and poverty reduction. A gender approach
to land rights can enable shifts in gender power
relations, and assure that all people, regardless
of s*x, benefit from, and are empowered by,
development policies and practices to improve
people’s rights to land. This brief gives an over-
view on how to consider gender aspects in pro-
jects and programmes addressing land rights.
Women represent 43% of the agriculture labour force.
Yet they rarely own the land they are working on, have
tenure securities or control over the land. Women often
have limited decision-making power and control over
how to use the land or its outputs.
The right to land is regulated either by the formal legal
system or through customary law. There are many exam-
ples of how the two systems can both prevent and pro-
mote women’s right to land. The formal legal systems in
many countries have constitutions or land laws that grant
gender equality in access to land, and at the same time
laws for marriage, divorce and inheritance that contradict
these laws by discriminating against women and daugh-
ters.
While systems of customary law regarding land tenure in
pre-colonial Africa often granted women access to land,
this right was lost in many cases with the introduction of
the idea of individual ownership. Source-Sida 2015

20/07/2020

Definition of :
As established by international standards, women have the right to equality in the enjoyment of all their rights, including the right to access, use, inherit, control, and own land. To achieve gender equality, States shall fulfil their obligation to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women.

19/07/2020

Ladies, if you have gone through the pain of losing family property after losing your husband. Property that is meant for your children's inheritance being taken by the relatives unlawfully. THIS is your CHANCE to tell your story. is an on going campaign to enable and sensitize women that are challenged from owning, purchasing, selling and managing real estate properties. Submit a video, voicenote, or write your story at [email protected]/ whatsapp +256753777500 to share a video or voice note narrating how you lost property, or experienced fraud while buying or selling any real estate property.

17/07/2020

17/07/2020

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