Publication: Integrating Gender in Land Projects: A Toolkit
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This Toolkit is aimed at practitioners, bi-lateral and multi-lateral organizations, and community and non-governmental organizations involved in land projects, programs and activities. It draws from secondary research and applies experience to provide a pathway to the successful integration of gender into the design and implementation of land projects, programs and activities to ensure women’s rights to housing, land and property are recognized and protected. The Toolkit provides users with a blueprint for building strategies and good practices to overcome the legal, social, and structural barriers preventing women from exercising their land rights. It aims to ensure significant and meaningful participation of women in land projects in all spaces, rural, peri-urban, and urban. The Toolkit will often refer to women’s land rights (WLR) and this term is broadly addressing women’s rights to housing, land, and real property (HLP). The Toolkit is organized around four broad project stages: (1) scoping, (2) design, (3) implementation, and (4) evaluation; but with an emphasis on scoping and design.
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“World Bank. 2023. Integrating Gender in Land Projects: A Toolkit. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/40588 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”
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