Women and Land Corruption Madagascar | short version
Channel: InsightShare
Date: 2018-12-11

This participatory video aimed to bring forth previously unheard voices and concerns of rural women affected by land corruption and patriarchy in Madagascar. The project was devised and shot by a group of women from the Lutheran Women’s Association of Tulear who joined a Participatory Video training facilitated by InsightShare to explore and document the land issues affecting women in cities and communities across Madagascar. 

After learning the Participatory Video methodology, women from South West Madagascar were able to conduct around 120 interviews over 4 months, collecting diverse experiences of women facing land-based corruption. One of the most recurrent challenges faced by interviewees from all ages was land dispossession as well as discrimination and harassment coming from their husbands' families due to strong family bonds. Some of the participants shared testimonies related to divorces arranged without their consent and how their husbands could easily bribe bailiffs to force them to leave the house. 

This capacity-building video allowed women to talk about further barriers such as corruption or normalised violence preventing hard-working women from exercising their rights due to the strong presence of patriarchy and male dominance that prevails in the region. 

This community development project was part of the Land and Corruption in Africa programme, developed in partnership with InsightShare, Andrew Lees Trust and Transparency International Initiative Madagascar (https://transparency.mg/)

For the full 30 min version go here: https://youtu.be/wPVQarBoL1E

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