Securing women's Access to Land : Linking Research and Action
The debate on women's land rights has reached a critical point, at which there is sufficient understanding of the need for improving women's access to and control over land, but obstacles and challenges persist in practice due to their roots in the gendered power relations governing society.
ILC seeks to respond to this reality through a project in Eastern and Southern Africa that links research and advocacy to promote a transformative agenda. The project is expected to result in an enhanced understanding of the power structures that continue to hamper women's enjoyment of secure and equitable access to land and other natural resources. Read more about the project here
The initial phase of this project has focused on identifying organizations with interest in participating in a small grants programme for action research implemented by the project partners, MISR (Makerere Institute for Social Research, Uganda) and PLAAS (Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies, South Africa), culminating in an inception workshop held in Nairobi in May 2008. Read more about the workshop
Following the inception workshop, full proposals were developed by all participating organisations and submitted for review processes per sub-region, with 6 projects in Kenya , Rwanda and Uganda selected for the small grants programme in the Eastern Africa sub-region and 5 projects in Malawi , Madagascar , Mozambique , South Africa , and Zimbabwe selected for the programme in the Southern Africa sub-region. Research has started and will continue until summer 2009. See a list of small grants projects here
This project is supported by Canada 's International Development Research Centre www.idrc.ca
