Reducing gender inequalities through land titling? The case of Gozamin Woreda

Mengesha, Ayelech Kidie; Damyanovic, Doris; Mansberger, Reinfried; Agegnehu, Sayeh Kassaw; Stoeglehner, Gernot

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105532

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“…Women's land rights were protected by the LRC process, with their tenure security increased after the LRCP. The results of [42,63,72,73] support these findings. In general, women of the study area perceived that they had the same land rights as men after the LRCP.…”

Section: Female-headed Households Wellbeingsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…This confirms a great contribution of the LRCP in the Amhara region to reduce gender gaps of access to resources and infrastructure. Studies by [21,42] found a significant impact of land registration programs in reducing gender inequality on access to land and other natural resources. Similarly, studies by [63,64] found that land tenure reform, including land registration and land certification, has positive effects on women's land rights and welfare.…”

Section: Effectiveness Of Land Registration and Certification Program...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some empirical studies carried out in different regions of Ethiopia employed gender analysis [42][43][44] in line with LRCP. However, they did not analyze the field-level realities of male and female households.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Gender Analysis of Landholding and Situation of Female-Headed Households after Land Registration: The Case of Machakel Woreda

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Well-implemented and functioning land administration systems are able to improve the wellbeing of rural households and support the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. As cadastral data are an essential part of a modern land administration system for documenting and securing the boundaries of parcels, Ethiopia recently embarked on one of the largest land surveying programs for rural land registration in Africa. Cadastral and land registration data provided by the land administration office of the woreda were analyzed using a Geographical Information System to investigate whether parcels of female-headed households were disadvantaged compared to parcels of male-headed households with regard to parcel size, parcel features, and access to infrastructure. In addition, the situation of female-headed households after the land registration process was analyzed in more detail. To this aim, quantitative and qualitative data were collected in the Ethiopian Machakel woreda through a household survey, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. The results document no significant gender discrepancies in parcel features and access to infrastructures. In general, women confirmed an improvement in the wellbeing of female-headed households after the land registration and certification process.

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Section: Female-headed Households Wellbeingsupporting

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Gender Analysis of Landholding and Situation of Female-Headed Households after Land Registration: The Case of Machakel Woreda

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“…Mishra and Sam (2016) found that women’s land ownership significantly increases their empowerment and increased engagement. According to Mengesha et al (2021), land ownership strengthens women’s self-confidence with respect to their land rights. According to study done by Rijal (2017), land ownership decides the economic dependence or independence of a person and also restricted in pursuit of self-employment activity of choice.…”

Section: Empowerment Of Women and Land Ownership Statusmentioning

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Women’s Land Ownership and Gender Equality in Nepal

Koirala

2022

Journal of Applied Social Science

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The study is an endeavor to contribute to the impact developing social circumstances regarding land ownership among women and its relation to gender equality. The purpose of this research debunks the factors effecting women land ownership and their impact on socio-economic equality. A survey was done among 100 women of a remote village, in southern Lalitpur regarding land ownership, with relation to variables such as level of education of women, ethnicity, age, presence of legal documents, knowledge of government policies, and family structure. Factors such as occupation of women, role in household decision making, and involvement in social and political spheres were also studied in relation to their land ownership. The survey was done with purposive and proportional stratified sampling among ethnic communities of Brahmin/Chhetri and Janajati. A questionnaire survey, key informant survey, focus group discussion and in-depth case study were done. Twenty-one percent of the females interviewed had land on their own and this data also had a variation with ethnic communities. It was found that women with land feel confident in the social and economic sphere of society. Brahmin community was found to be more aware of the government policies encouraging female land ownership than the Janajati community. This study aims to add knowledge on the conversation in gender equality and its relation to land and property ownership.

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“…As has previously been recalled, various measures have been adopted at national level to strengthen women's tenure rights either within marriage or as individuals or both, and to ensure their participation in decision-making processes, including establishing quotas in land governance bodies and taking some steps to address underlying constraints to women's involvement in governance. However, even in those countries where the legislation provides for gender equality, including with reference to land rights, women's rights are in practice affected by poor implementation at local level, because traditional customs tend to prevail in the day-to-day practice, including when government officials are involved (see also Collins, 2019;Andersson Djurfeldt, 2020;Doss and Meinzen-Dick, 2020;Mengesha et al, 2021; see previous sections).…”

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Women's Right to Land Between Collective and Individual Dimensions. Some Insights From Sub-Saharan Africa

Errico

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Women represent a large part of the 2.5 billion people who depend on lands managed through customary, community-based tenure systems and are especially reliant on commons for their lives and livelihoods. They have very often limited and unsecured access to land and natural resources and tend to be excluded from decisions concerning them. Far from representing a homogenous group, they face varying challenges that are the result of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, whereby gender dynamics intersect with other characteristics, such as age, disability, ethnic origin, or socioeconomic status. Peasant and indigenous women, in many instances, face the compounded impact of the lack of recognition and violation of the collective rights of their communities, which is often the legacy of histories of colonization, conquest, dispossession and discrimination, and patriarchal norms, exacerbated by neoliberalism and the commodification of land and natural resources. The nexus between individual and collective rights is one of particular importance, but has received limited attention, including as regards the gendered effects of human rights violations of collective rights. In the present article, the nexus between collective and individual rights of peasant and indigenous women is illustrated by considering the experience surrounding the recognition and implementation of collective rights to land in Sub-Saharan Africa and the impact on women's right to land. The article argues that peasant and indigenous women's right to land is best protected through interventions aimed at guaranteeing both their collective and individual rights. There is a need to take into account and address simultaneously the barriers that indigenous and peasant women face with regard to their collective as well as their individual rights. These barriers include those ascribed to the discrimination and social, economic and political marginalization suffered by their peoples and communities, as well as those related to patriarchal power structures within and outside them. Addressing these barriers requires the respect, protection and fulfillment of both collective and individual human rights of women and a careful analysis of the interaction between these rights.

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Reducing gender inequalities through land titling? The case of Gozamin Woreda

Cited by 10 publications

References 67 publications

Gender Analysis of Landholding and Situation of Female-Headed Households after Land Registration: The Case of Machakel Woreda

Gender Analysis of Landholding and Situation of Female-Headed Households after Land Registration: The Case of Machakel Woreda

Women’s Land Ownership and Gender Equality in Nepal

Women's Right to Land Between Collective and Individual Dimensions. Some Insights From Sub-Saharan Africa

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