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WRRC Bibliography: Africa, Women's Inheritance and Property Rights

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Engendering exclusion in Senegal’s democratic decentralization: Subordinating women through participatory natural resource management
As stated in the Abstract, “this dissertation demonstrates how external agency participatory programs with village committees and how multi-party competition and rivalries have undermined women's decision making and access to forest resources and land in a rural Senegalese community. Using a...
FAO Sudan: Full Country Report, Gender and Land Rights database

This country report provides information on the national legal framework including rights entrenched in the Constitution, women's property and use rights in Civil Code, Labour Code,and Family Code, inheritance legal mechanisms , land law and policies/Institutional mechanisms enforcing or...

Gender and access to land and natural resources in Mali and Niger

In some West African countries, decentralisation and the establishment of local government are opening the way to more representative democratic processes. One hope is that, as a result, women will get more involved in public life. Access to land and natural resources in Mali and Niger is a...

Gender and Access to Land in Senegal
Gender Discrimination in the Division of Marital Property on Divorce in Nigeria
This paper considers how the law in Nigeria discriminates against women in respect of the distribution of property on divorce. It also discusses whether international or regional instruments which have been ratified by Nigeria have helped eliminate discrimination against women in this regard.
Gender Policies and Land in Africa: navigating a minefield
This paper highlight several issues including a growing concensus that solutions to women’s land tenure problems need to be grounded in local specificities, that gender policies related to land ownership have tended to be piecemeal, circumscribed and homogenous and what kind of policy responses...
Gender, Land rights and Inheritance. Securing Women’s Land Rights: approaches prospects and challenges
This paper discusses the issues involved in women’s land interests and inheritiance, with reference to recent land tenure reforms in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda and reviews debate among gender justice activists about how related issues should be addressed, in particular the problems of customary law...
Human rights, formalisation and women’s land rights in southern and eastern Africa
Land is a vital resource for rural livelihoods. Establishing and clarifying land rights through formalisation has become a key issue in development policies that aim to promote more productive uses of land. This report looks at some land reform initiatives from a gendered human rights perspective....
Immatriculation du Foncier Rural au Niger
Inheritance laws and Women’s property rights: How Just?

The writer argues that it has mainly only been through inheritance legislation, not land legislation, that state law has delivered any positive redress as to the relative rights of men and women in land. Even in these cases, this has often been achieved only by court interpretations or...