The Root of Inequality? Customary Tenure and Women’s Rights to Land in West Africa
Channel: Land Portal
Date: 2021-03-24

The webinar focuses on a topic of common importance to Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria: women's land rights under customary tenure. While marking out tenure security risks for women, the aim here is to highlight new equitable practices of land tenure, comparing positive case examples and challenges to promote measures that are inclusive for women.


This webinar takes place in the frame of the County Insights initiative and marks the launch of Land Portal's new country portfolios for Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria. The panels was composed of:


Renée Giovarelli, Resource Equity (moderator)
Anne Hennings, Land Portal
Akua Opokua Britwum, Associate Professor at the Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana 

Oluwakemi Udoh, researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Covenant University, Nigeria
Justine Uvuza, Senior Land Policy Advisor, Gender at Landesa