Evaluating Gender Impacts and Practice in Bank Land Administration Projects
April 29th, 2005
The land administration portfolio in the Bank is relatively young, with most of the projects initiated around the mid-1990s. Gender concerns are unevenly integrated into their designs. A few good practice cases have been identified from project documents, focused primarily on process, but gender concerns have not been addressed systematically and gendered impacts have not been adequately assessed. At an ESSD Week Session on Land and Gender on March 12, 2003, participants stressed the need for a more results-based evaluation.
The project will support four project impact studies that will focus on outcomes resulting from different levels of gender sensitivity in project design and implementation:
1) outcomes in terms of changes in women’s access to and property rights
in land;
2) gendered impacts on household income and social welfare, and
3) gendered impacts on investment and land transfers.
Project design, practices and processes will be examined to see how they have affected these outcomes. These practices may include the gender sensitivity of project-initiated legal reforms, approaches taken in communication campaigns, methods utilized in adjudication and selection processes, forms of marital property recognition, participation in dispute resolution, access to institutions providing redress, and monitoring and evaluation of gendered impacts.
The World Bank Participants are: Wael Zakout (EASRD, World Bank), Lucia Fort (PREMGE, World Bank), John W. Bruce (LEGEN, World Bank), Eija Pehu (ARD, World Bank), Wafaas Ofosu-Amaah ( PRMGE, World Bank ), Arunima Dhar (ARD, World Bank)
International Advisor: Michael Carter (International Advisor – University of Wisconsin-Madison),
Funding: World Bank
Partners: Project Team: We formed a strong team consisting of Sue Nichols (Land Administration Specialist – University of New Brunswick), Renee Giovarelli (Legal Specialist – International Partners in Development), , Susana Lastarria (International Sociologist , Elizabeth Katz (International Economist – University of San Francisco), and Veronica McGinn (Project Coordinator – Centre for Property Studies, UNB). |
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