Enhancing Ethiopian Women's Access to and Control over Land

DAY 5: JULY 21, 2001

• Plan of action
• Evaluation
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1. Mission statement
   • To see that Ethiopian women's access to, use of and control over land is equal to that of men.
2. General objectives
   • To engage in advocacy to ensure the formulation and implementation of policies that give equal access to, use of and control over land to women;
   • To work towards the elimination of harmful traditional attitudes and practices that hinder the implementation of policies on the right of land to women.
3. Specific objectives
   • To ensure that existing policies and laws are improved and new policies and laws are formulated to give women access to, use of and control over land within five years;
   • To establish coordination between the government and civil society organisations engaged in issues relevant to women's land rights;
   • To sensitise 25 per cent of relevant people on policies related to land issues in general and women's land rights in particular within two years.
   • To build capacity to enable at least 50 per cent of landless Ethiopian women to acquire land within ten years;
   • To minimise harmful traditional attitudes and practices hinder women's land rights within ten years.

1. Content of the workshop
   • Was too much 44%
   • Was too little 12%
   • Was enough 44%
2. Which section of the programme needs strengthening?
   • All sections need to be strengthened;
   • The human rights section;
   • The policy section;
   • The advocacy section;
   • Women and land ownership issues.
3. Material
   • Was enough 76%
   • Was too little 24%
4. Venue of the workshop
   • All said that it was comfortable.
5. Other comments about the workshop
   1. What did you like about the workshop?
      • It dealt with practical issues such as human rights and land
      • It addressed the crucial issue of women's land rights;
      • The training methodology;
      • It was participatory;
   2. What you did not like about the workshop?
      • There should have been tables;
      • There was not enough time;
      • There should have been more experts to discuss the issues.