Workshop
2009 DLRSA Workshop Event page
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| PLAAS Regional Workshop on | |
| Decentralising Land,
Dispossessing Women : Recovering gender voices and experiences of Decentralised Land Reform in Africa |
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| Dates: (4 full days) | 4 - 7 May 2009 |
| Venue: | Maputo, Mozambique |
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| This workshop was a joint effort between two PLAAS projects on Securing Women’s Access to Land and Decentralized Land Reform in Southern Africa in collaboration with the Norwegian People’s Aid. This event was made possible by generous funding from the Austrian Development Agency, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Norwegian People’s Aid. | |
The workshop discussed and
explored the impact of decentralized land reform from a gender lens in
particular. As you know, decentralisation has become a development
buzzword as well as a strategy imposed on many countries in the South.
It has become part and parcel of many development initiatives,
interventions and policies. More specifically, decentralization
policies and interventions have been incorporated into land reform
processes and have direct impacts on women and men at the grass-roots
in the way that they inherit, access and use land and natural
resources. While the impacts and results of decentralized land reform
are still being analyzed, debated and discussed, what is often left out
are the gender implications and impacts of such interventions in
African contexts. The objectives of the workshop are therefore to focus
on the gender impacts and effects of decentralized land reform and
to:
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| The workshop highlighted the experiences of PLAAS supported research on gender and land issues and brought together researchers, academics, civil society advocates and others working in this field. Specific panels were organised on i) women’s participation and voices in customary authorities and land administration; ii) gender participation and impacts of privitization, titling and certification of land rights; iii) gender, local institutions and women participation and iv) the role of different tiers and spheres of the state in decentralizing land. | |
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