«ENABLING GENDER EQUITABLE ACCESS TO PRODUCTIVE

AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES IN TAJIKISTAN»

2 DECEMBER 2016

Nodira SidykovaDeputy chief of party and Legal aid director

USAID Land Reform and Farm restructuring project

USAID Land Reform and Farm Restructuring Project’s Purpose: Supporting the continuing progress of dehkan farm restructuring and recognition of property rights leading to a market in land-use rights

Task 1: Promoting legislative reforms

Task 2: Building capacity of public officials, farmers, NGOs,

and other beneficiaries

Task 3: Expanding awareness of land rights and farm

restructuring

Task 4: Providing legal consultations and legal aid

Promoting legislative reforms.

Implementing and strengthening the

rights of land users through the adoption

of normative and legal acts

Creating a unified system of

registration of rights and transactions

with land

Granting land users the right of alienation

and its legal approval

Facilitating the development of land-use rights market

Providing gender equality to land

Trainings for LACs and female rural activists

“Considering Land Disputes in Court: Resolving Land Related Disputes in Economic Court”

During its activities, Project

developed and produced 22

booklets in total of 138,519

copies

Study tour to Sughd region for 50 female farmers from Khatlon region

“Women’s Right to Land: Capacity Building of Female Leaders in Tajikistan”

Farm restructuring6,927 female dehkan farms received certificates on land-use right

Participating in court proceedings

25

525 land disputes5 property disputesTotal of 30 court proceedings

830 female land users restored their land rights upon court decisions 750 ha of land were returned to female land users 88,000 land users received help from USAID Land Reform and Farm

Restructuring Project, 55 % of whom were women.