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GOVERNANCE OF AFRICAN LAND RIGHTS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN

GOVERNANCE OF AFRICAN LAND RIGHTS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN. Presentation by Lindsay Mossman Senior Gender Equality Advisor Aga Khan Foundation Canada 27 March 2019. Overview: Key Questions. FIAP: Growth that works for everyone.

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GOVERNANCE OF AFRICAN LAND RIGHTS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN

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  1. GOVERNANCE OF AFRICAN LAND RIGHTS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN Presentation by Lindsay Mossman Senior Gender Equality Advisor Aga Khan Foundation Canada 27 March 2019

  2. Overview: Key Questions

  3. FIAP: Growth that works for everyone • Canada will support inclusive economic growth that helps the poorest, most vulnerable and marginalized generate, participate and benefit from economic activity. • support the full participation of women in economic decision-making and leadership; • help improve economic opportunities for rural women, focusing on improved incomes and productivity through sustainable agriculture • promote financial inclusion for women and equal access to capital, markets, digital technology and business development services • promote labour, land, inheritance and property rights for women

  4. What do we mean by women’s land rights? IFPRI: Use, control, and ownership rights to land • Use rights involve the ability or permission to employ an asset • Control rights signal greater levels of power, including management and exclusion. • Ownership implies having all these rights, including sale or other forms of disposal, backed by formal legal institutions. • In practice, definitions are not clear cut

  5. Why are land rights important? • Production: Women produce more than 80% of the food in Africa, but own only 1% of the land. Women’s land plots tend to be smaller and less agriculturally productive. • Collateral: Land is frequently used as collateral in applications for loans or credit, to start a business, purchase agricultural or other inputs, etc. • Household bargaining and negotiation: Where women are land and property owners, there is an increase in their household decision-making, particularly around purchase or sale of land.

  6. Barriers and Facilitators of Women’s Land Rights

  7. Women’s Land Rights: Barriers

  8. Women’s Land Rights: Barriers or Facilitators

  9. Approaches to address women’s land rights

  10. Engagement of Men: Mozambique • Power rests with men, property control generally stays with older men in woman’s family • HH decisions primarily made by men, including on purchases and sales of assets “we don’t have a say with men. They are the ones who decide everything and we just follow their orders.” (22-year old woman, CBSG member, Quissanga).

  11. Women’s Organizations • Women’s organizations, cooperatives andnetworks • Knowledge and awareness on land and inheritance rights and processes • Support women to access legal recourse • Pooling of funds to purchase land • Pooling of land to produce greater yields • Joint applications for credit Where women have support from organizations, they are more likely to have positive outcomes for their land rights cases and economic development.

  12. Measuring women’s access to and control over assets Example from Afghanistan Women’s Empowerment Program

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