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

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Sudan Women's Access to Land and Property Rights Workshop: Workshop Report May 2010

This is a report of a workshop organized by the USAID which sought to highlight the discrepancies between women’s land rights under the law and popular perceptions of those rights, as identified during consultations with the State, outline policy and legal trends related to women’s land rights...

Sudan: The Question of Land

This is the tenth in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated, what the paragraphs mean, and how they should be implemented. This article focuses on the question of land tenure. Conflict over land is one of the major reasons...

The Loi Relative au Domaine Nationale 1964, (National Domain Law)
The Mystery of Capital Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Women, Property Rights and Customary Law
Economists such as Hernando De Soto have argued that clearly defined property rights are essential to capital formation and ultimately to economic growth and poverty alleviation. This article traces two impediments to the clear definition of property rights in the African context: customary law and...
The Rural Code in Niger: A Land Tenure Reform Based on a Continuing Participatory Process
The authors argue that the process leading to the Rural Code has produced some important positive results which have contributed to easing conflicted relations between rural producers and strengthening land tenure security, notably amongst the weakest inhabitants. Some challenges to the...
Till to tiller: International migration, remittances and land rights in West Africa

Also in French (Français)

Migrants are important to development and poverty reduction in their home countries. For many countries the levels of remittances from relatives abroad exceed...

To have and to hold: Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
Does women's lack of property rights increases household poverty and their vulnerability to HIV infection? Would securing these rights mitigate the impoverishing impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic? This paper seeks to answer these questions and
Traditional chiefs and modern land tenure law in Niger
Traditional marriage practices as determinants of women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of research based on research by Jean-Philippe Platteau, Anita Abraham, Frederic Gaspart, and Luc Stevens

This article looks at land tenure systems as well as changes in traditional marriage institutions and social security in Senegal and Burkina Faso and argues that it is crucial that women’s social security and bargaining power within the traditional institutions be preserved while introducing new...

US AID Sudan Property Rights Programme
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Sudan Property Rights Programme (SPRP) is working with Southern Sudan Land Commission (SSLC) to develop a land policy for the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS). The policy will be based upon an extensive programme of public...