Conference Agenda

Session Overview
Session
03-04: Recognizing women's rights over common resources
Time:
Tuesday, 26/Mar/2019:
2:00pm - 3:30pm

Session Chair: David Bledsoe, Resource Equity, United States of America
 Location: MC 4-100

Presentations
ID: 306 / 03-04: 1
Individual Papers
Topics: Land and human rights, gender, indigenous peoples
Keywords: Commons, Gender, Land, Human Rights

Securing women’s property rights in utilization of commons: Lessons from the Kadenge community of Yala Swamp

Hope Otieno

National Legal Aid Service, Kenya


ID: 883 / 03-04: 3
Individual Papers
Topics: Land and human rights, gender, indigenous peoples
Keywords: Customary Land Tenure, Gender, Soybean, Ghana

Customary land tenure systems and gendered land rights in Ghana’s northern region: Results from phase II gender equity and land tenure focus groups

Gina Rico Mendez, Kathleen Ragsdale, Kelly Lower, Mary Read-Wahidi

Mississippi State University, United States of America


ID: 748 / 03-04: 4
Individual Papers
Topics: Commons and natural resource management
Keywords: gender, women's land rights, common property, communal tenure, land rights indicators

Women’s tenure security on collective lands: Implications for measurement and policy

Ruth Meinzen-Dick1, Rachael Knight2, Cheryl Doss3

1IFPRI, United States of America; 2Namati; 3University of Oxford


ID: 933 / 03-04: 5
Individual Papers
Topics: Land and human rights, gender, indigenous peoples
Keywords: Land, Gender, Livelihoods

Exploring the role of gender equity in customary land administration to boost production

Pamela Bella Nyamutoka Katooro1, Simon Peter Mwesigye2, Rose Mugabe1, Alex Muhumuza1

1International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Uganda; 2UN Habitat/GLTN, Uganda