Environmental & gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa

Although recent developments have increased interest in African land tenure, Rwanda's nation-wide Land Tenure Regularization (LTR) program is one of a few models to address these issues at the required scale. An impact evaluation of this program highlights four main effects; namely, - significant and large investment impacts that are particularly pronounced for women; - improved land access for legally married women and better recordation of inheritance rights; - a reduction in the probability of having documented land ownership for legally unmarried women; and - a reduction in land market activity rather than distress sales. Click here to read the full World Bank report