Presented by Fiona Flintan at the FAO-Pastoralist Knowledge Hub Partners’ Meeting, Rome, 3 April 2017

1. Tools for Improving Pastoral Women’s Access
to Land and Resources
Fiona Flintan
Senior Scien-st, ILRI (including Coordinator of ILC’s Rangelands
Ini-a-ve – global component
FAO-Pastoralist Knowledge Hub Partners’ MeeCng
3rd April 2017, Rome

2. Role of pastoral women in pastoral systems
Women are:
• Natural resource
managers
• Income generators
• Livestock producers

3. Gender issues are complex in pastoral socieCes
and not always what one might assume!

7. Pastoral women and land-resource rights
A “double”
marginalisaCon.
In danger of “falling
between two stools.”

8. A quesCon sCll unanswered:
How best can pastoral women secure
rights to land and resources?
Is this beWer done as ‘individuals’ or as
part of a collecCve system? And if
the laWer…HOW?

9. ILC Women’s Land Rights Toolkit

10. 1. AlternaCve ReporCng
A report produced by NGOs or CSOs to complement
or challenge an official report by a State.
AlternaCve reporCng allows civil society to monitor
States’ compliance with treaty obligaCons and to
hold them accountable.

11. 2. Earth FesCvals
Local art, music, theatre and dance fesCvals
focusing on earth and land issues – to raise
awareness about the direct relaConship
between women, earth and nature; and to
raise awareness about women’s land rights.

12. 3. Family Land Rights and Lineage Tree
A method of conflict resoluCon aimed at
idenCfying land tenure rights by drawing a
Family Land Rights and Lineage Tree to
idenCfy facts and prevenCng future conflict
including by planCng actual trees. Leading to
fair recogniCon of customary tenure,
inclusion of women in land rights records,
avoiding over-reliance on oral and unsworn
evidence in tradiConal dispute resoluCon
forums.

13. 4. Gender EvaluaCon Criteria
A matrix to assess whether laws and
policies are responsive to the needs of
both women and men to promote
gender-responsible land governance.

14. 5. Groups of women claiming rights
Groups of women who act collecCvely to
claim their rights.
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