This LGSA Women’s Land Rights Study serves as a consolidated resource to help guide the genderresponsive implementation of Liberia’s 2013 Land Rights Policy (LRP). It is based on legal research of the formal legal system; original, exploratory field research in five communities spanning three counties; and secondary research drawing primarily from research conducted under USAID’s Liberian land projects.

This report begins with an overview of the basic legal framework that establishes women’s land rights, and then proceeds to a description of six primary thematic topics related to women’s land rights and participation in land governance: 1) land tenure systems; 2) marriage/ de facto unions; 3) inheritance; 4) land governance; 5) access to justice and dispute resolution; and 6) concessions.

Read the report here.