Getting to the Root of Gender Equal Land Governance

Sep 23, 2015 | Catriona Knapman
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While there is international agreement that we need gender equality in land ownership – achieving this in practice is more complex.

Women face a number of obstacles in accessing land; these are not necessarily due to low levels of ownership. We hosted a workshop in Senegal to look at how more equal land access could be achieved.

The workshop brought together NGO practitioners and academics from East and West Africa to discuss their approaches to ensuring land rights for women. The discussion promoted different approaches to moving towards equal access and control over land for men and women in Sub-Saharan Africa and revealed the risks of ignoring the realities of land access.