GLTN considers gender as a critical cross-cutting theme in the
work on promoting pro-poor, large-scale land tools (for more
information on GLTN see www.gltn.net). This short report
summarises an analysis undertaken by the GLTN Secretariat to
assess how women’s rights, and specific needs, are being
addressed by selected projects in the GLTN land tool inventory—a
database consisting of numerous international development
projects in the land sector is available on the website. The
research was conducted in order to identify how projects are
tackling gender concerns related to land, where more work needs
to be done, and possible entry-points to enhance the gender-
responsiveness of projects. The desktop research was done
through an assessment of project documents (hence the original
design/intention of projects rather than impact) focused on
gender issues in Asia, Africa and Latin America, available in
the GLTN land tool inventory. The results from the project
documents available show a lack of explicit focus in m