Den dyrebare jord og kvindernes skæbne – seminar

It is not only international investors, ministers and members of the national economic elites who are concerned with land. Also rural women in the thousands of communities in sub-Saharan Africa and in many other parts of the developing world are concerned.

Increasingly they experience that their rights to receive a piece of land from their parents, through their husbands or through their own means and efforts are being denied by family members, by community leaders or by religious, political or legal authorities.

Poverty, growing global demands for food, fodder and fuel, and radical religious and cultural public discourses on the role of women (and men) in the family, society and the economy contribute to these experiences.

During the past decades, governments, civil society organisations, and development agencies have made attempts to secure women’s access to land and to promote gender equality in the land-related legislation as well as in its application.

Some of these efforts are documented in a recent DIIS Report, published as part of the Danida and Sida funded research and communication programme ReCom.

This seminar presents insights from research analysing efforts to promote gender equality in land access in Niger, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia (­forthcoming).

And invites for a discussion of how such efforts may be further supported, supplemented and strengthened in order to ensure gender equality in land administration.

SPEAKERS

* Martha Diarra, Nigerien Sociologist and gender expert, Independent consultant
* Marianne Haahr, Advocacy Coordinator, CARE Denmark
* Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen, Researcher, DIIS
* Helle Munk Ravnborg, Senior researcher, DIIS
* Rachel Spichiger, PhD Candidate, DIIS and RUC

PROGRAMME

14.00-14.10

Welcome and introduction

14.10-14.30
Women’s access to land in NIGER in the context of poverty and new religious gender discourses – by Martha Diarra

14.30-15.00
Women, donors and land administration. The case of TANZANIA, by Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

15.00-15.20
Women and land in southern ZAMBIA: from laws to relations, by Rachel Spichiger

15.20-15.40
Coffee break

15.40-16.00
Land administration, gender equality and development cooperation. The case of UGANDA and beyond, Helle Munk Ravnborg

16.15-17.00
Discussion

Chair: Marianne Haahr

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