Enhancing women’s resource rights for improving resilience to climate change

This brief summarizes relevant findings from socio-legal analyses, combining the review of key legal and policy documents and literature on existing barriers to the recognition of women’s land rights. The review analyzes existing tenure systems, identifies tenure interventions recognizing rights to women, as well as barriers constraining their ability to benefit from those rights.

The analysis was conducted in four countries – including Ethiopia, Bangladesh, The Gambia and Uganda – and forms part of a wider set of activities underway by the IFAD – supported by Women’s Resources Rights Initiative, led by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry Centre (CIFOR-ICRAF), the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).