Ensuring tenure security for women : a case study on Namibia's communal land rights registration programme
Prisca Mandimika & Elke Matthaei
The importance of a gendered analysis of the impact of the communal land rights registration programme in Namibia on women is strategic for current and future planning purposes. This paper will highlight the steps the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement in Namibia has taken to promote gender equality in communal areas. The paper provides an analysis of broad based land policies and legislation that were enacted following the National Conference on Land Reform and the Land Question of 1991, and their consequent impacts on gender equality. Issues of communal land administration, the roles of Communal Land Boards and Traditional Authorities in promoting secure tenure for women are interrogated. Gender disaggregated data on the current communal land rights registration programme in Namibia is also highlighted. The successes and challenges of the registration programme in terms of promoting tenure security for women are presented.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2013
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