This report is a synthesis of lessons and good practices gleaned from four case studies of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)-funded projects in Benin, Lesotho, Mali, and Namibia. The case studies assess how each project applied gender analysis to its design and implementation, seeking to understand how each project approached gender issues and how that approach impacted results. Ultimately the case studies and this report aim to help practitioners understand what concrete steps might be taken towards closing the gender gap in land projects.
This report and the case studies illustrate, gender matters in the formal and customary legal frameworks that form the basis of land tenure systems; it matters in the cultural and social dynamics that underpin, inform, and are influenced by land tenure systems and land tenure reforms; it matters in the ways communities and households are governed, in the division of labor, and in social power and inclusion; and gender matters in institutions, institutional policy, and governance.
