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| Cairo Initiative on Islamic Land Tools |
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| Taking into account the challenges facing the Arab countries regarding land tenure and access to land ownership |
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| East London Guiding Principles on Islamic Land Tools |
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| Adopted at the Expert Group Meeting on ‘Cross Fertilisation of Universal and Islamic Land Approaches’ organised by UN-HABITAT and the University of East London on 17–18 May 2007 (29 Rabi'ath-Thani and 1 Jumada l-Ula A.H. 1428), in pursuance of the Cairo Initiative on Islamic Land Tools (2005) |
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| Enumeration as a grassroot tool towards securing tenure in slums: An initial assessment of the Kisumu experience |
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Grassroots enumeration has been underway in Kisumu’s slums since 2005. The complex process was near completion in October 2007, when a peer evaluation was organised by UN-HABITAT, the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) and other stakeholders. The purpose of the evaluation was to establish the relevance of grassroots enumeration as a global tool to secure land tenure. In particular, the evaluation was to identify lessons learnt from community-based slum enumeration in Kisumu, recommendations on grassroots engagement on the use, management and updating of the enumeration data and its integration into the official planning system. A further objective was to analyse stakeholders’ recommendations on securing of tenure, and grassroots involvement in this (GLTN, 2007:5).
This paper draws on the peer evaluation process and report. It starts by looking more closely at the idea of global land tools and the origins of the particular enumeration approach that was envisaged for Kisumu. The paper then contextualises the enumeration exercise within the city of Kisumu, its slums, the slum upgrading initiative and the governance and coordination challenges that this initiative is confronted with. It then reviews the enumeration experience in Kisumu, covering aspects of mobilisation, tensions experienced in carrying out the enumeration, impacts such as changes in landlord-tenant relations and challenges of data verification. Whereas a parallel process of grassroots spatial surveying was undertaken in Kisumu’s slums, this paper reviews only the enumeration/data-collection exercise. In the conclusion, the paper highlights the importance of coordination and makes recommendations for a closer association between grassroots enumeration and securing of tenure. |
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| From Being Property of Men to Becoming Equal Owners? Early Impacts of Land Registration and Certification on Women in Southern Ethiopia |
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Traditionally, the land tenure system in Southern Ethiopia may be characterised by patrilineal inheritance and virilocal residence. Young girls have very little influence over when and whom to marry. Further, they have to go to a husband that their clan or family has identified for them, meaning that they after marriage move to the home of their new husband and inherit no land from their parents. Bride prices and dowries are commonly used, and girls are seen as the property of the husband and his clan. This also implies that if the husband dies, his wife is still the property of his clan. Hence, a brother of the late husband would then become the new husband of the wife.
This report provides recommendations as to how women’s land rights could be strengthened further in Ethiopia by improving the quality of the land reform, followed by some recommendations for issues where further research is needed. |
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| Gender responsiveness of selected projects in the GLTN land tool inventory |
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GLTN considers gender as a critical cross-cutting theme in the work on promoting pro-poor, large-scale land tools (for more information see GLTN).
This short report summarises an analysis undertaken by the GLTN Secretariat to assess how women’s rights, and specific needs, are being addressed by selected projects in the GLTN land tool inventory—a database available on the above website consisting of numerous international development projects in the land sector. The research was conducted in order to identify how projects are tackling gender concerns related to land, where more work needs to be done, and possible entry-points to enhance the gender-responsiveness of projects.
The desktop research was done through an assessment of project documents (hence the original design/intention of projects rather than impact) focused on gender issues in Asia, Africa and Latin America, available in the GLTN land tool inventory.
The results from the project documents available show a lack of explicit focus in most projects on enhancing women’s’ equal access to land, giving more attention to enhance women’s rights in other sectors such as income-generation. Similarly, while efforts such as capacity-building, collection and compilation of sex-disaggregated data and women’s inclusion in decision making are consistently found in the project documents reviewed, these efforts have not as frequently been intended specifically to enhance women’s equal access to land. These findings suggest both a lack of documentation and implementation of "gender-responsive land tools" and suggests a need for more in-depth research in this area. This should ideally include access to more documents for projects in the GLTN land inventory, as many were not available for assessment. |
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| GLTN- Why, What, and How, Development of Innovative Pro Poor Land Tools |
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| The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Why, What, and How, Development of Innovative Pro Poor Land Tools, Report from a workshop at the SIDA Headquarters in Stockholm, 24-25 November 2005. Jointly organised by UN-Habitat and SIDA. |
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