Using a Gender-Responsive Land Rights Framework to Assess Youth Land Rights in Rural Liberia

Elizabeth Louis, Tizai Mauto, My-Lan Dodd, Tasha Heidenrich, Peter Dolo and Emmanuel Urey
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Elizabeth Louis: Landesa, 1424 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Tizai Mauto: Landesa, 1424 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
My-Lan Dodd: Landesa, 1424 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Tasha Heidenrich: Landesa, 1424 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Peter Dolo: Development Education Network-Liberia (DEN-L), Dementa Road, Gbarnga, Bong Country, Liberia
Emmanuel Urey: Landesa, 1424 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA

Land, 2020, vol. 9, issue 8, 1-22

Abstract: This article summarizes the evidence on youth land rights in Liberia from a literature review combined with primary research from two separate studies: (1) A qualitative assessment conducted as formative research to inform the design of the Land Rights and Sustainable Development (LRSD) project for Landesa and its partners’ community level interventions; and (2) a quantitative baseline survey of program beneficiaries as part of an evaluation of the LRSD project. The findings are presented using a Gender-Responsive Land Rights Framework that examines youth land rights through a gender lens. The evidence highlights that female and male youth in Liberia face significant but different barriers to long-term access to land, as well as to participation in decisions related to land. Our suggested recommendations offer insights for the implementation of Liberia’s recently passed Land Rights Act as well as for community-level interventions focused on increasing youth land tenure security in Liberia.

Keywords: youth land rights; gender-responsive land rights framework; Liberia Land Rights Act; land governance; tenure security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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