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“PDI kicks out – women land rights campaign”

This article highlights the work Participatory Development Initiatives [PDI] to raise awareness about the second phase of the land redistribution programme of the Government of Sindh.

“PDI launches campaign facilitating poor women to receive government land”

This article highlights the work Participatory Development Initiatives [PDI] to raise awareness about the second phase of the land redistribution programme of the Government of Sindh. PDI who has already been engaged in the awareness and advocacy in the first phase of land distribution, has formed teams to launch a massive campaign in different districts of Sindh to ensure that the poorest of poor women are well informed about the program and are able to fill and submit their application forms for receiving government land.

“Revitalising the land distribution programme”

The article raises questions about the transparency of the Sindh government’s land redistribution programme and refers to a research study conducted by a non-government organisation, Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) which point to a number of flaws.

Land, Water and Gendered Nobilities in Pakistan: Exploring the Contradictions

“Criteria for land reforms in Sindh”

This article explains the objectives of the Sindh government’s land redistribution programme.

“Helping the landless become landowners”

“Pakistan – fighting for land rights for the poor”

The article covers Sindh’s government’s land redistribution programme and how it is helping women access land.

Women and Land in Pakistan and FATA: A concept note

Land Tenure and Property Rights in Pakistan

The author’s argue that rural discontent over chronic poverty, corruption, and the failure of the government to foster development is widespread in Pakistan and that land tenure and property rights are one aspect of these problems. Post-independence Pakistan has retained a feudal system of land tenure in which an elite class of landowners owns vast holdings worked by tenant farmers and laborers who live in persistent poverty. The Taliban is building popular support based in part upon anger over unequal distribution of land and unfair owner-tenant contracts.

Land for the Landless

This article explains the Sindh government’s land redistribution programme which will distribute approx two to eight acres of barrage land among approx 14,000 persons, most women in its first phase.