The National Land Policy for Kenya: Critical Gender Issues and Policy Statements

August 2004
Kenya Land Alliance, Issues Paper No.1/2004

Seeks to move the debate and stimulate discussion of issues relevant to women’s land rights and social security beyond the unfulfilled demands for gender responsive land policies and land legal framework. Covers land tenure and ownership, provisions in Trust Land, for inheritance, for succession and matrimonial policy, the impact of HIV/AIDS on women’s land rights, land redistribution and resettlement schemes, land markets, institutional arrangements, the envisaged legislative framework.