Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies

Publisher(s)
Resource Equity, Landesa - Rural Development Institute
Topics
  E&S impact assessment, Gender
Audience
  Lenders & investors, Operators
Reports and case studies

Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies

  Aug 01th, 2016

The aims to understand how formalizing or securing rights to collectively held lands can affect women and men differently and how projects and interventions can best address gender differences. It synthesizes findings from six case studies – from China, Ghana, India, the Kyrgyz Republic, Namibia, and Peru – that assess interventions to strengthen collective tenure and ensure that both women and men benefit from the improved land tenure security.