Improving land governance and increasing women's acces and control over land through collective actions – The case of Pernambuco
Patricia Maria Queiroz Chaves, Ivan Juca
Brazil has an immense gender gap in the access, use, control and ownership of land. This paper highlights the importance of gender equality regarding land governance and showcases a strategy to achieve it. The paper will examine how the organization Espaço Feminista (Brazil) and partners are building a framework to decrease gender bias in land governance by building coalitions between women’s organizations and land movements in Brazil. This framework consists of: i) creating a baseline dataset to monitor public policy implementation at a local and territorial level, with a focus on gender; ii) sharing and discussing those data with women in grassroots organizations; iii) petitioning policy-makers and local governments to redress these concerns; iv) creating a broad coalition of partners. We argue that this framework can apply broadly and we will demonstrate how those policies can be implemented to reduce gender inequality in regard to land governance.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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