World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty

March 23-27, 2014

Moderator: Caren Grown, Economist in Residence, American University

Panelists:Hazel Malapit, IFPRI Lauren Pandolfelli, Statistician, Evidence and Data

for Gender Equality (EDGE), United Nations Statistics Division

Chiara Brunelli, FAOTalip Kilic, Research Economist, DECPI, World BankErmalinda Durmishi, Immovable Property

Registration Office, Albania

Land Statistics using WEAI dataWomen’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

Jan. 2013

July 2013

Dec. 2013

1st technical meeting

(New York)

Draft guidelines and first round of

consultation

2nd technical meeting

(Bangkok)

FAO report on measuring land

ownership

Follow-up meeting

(New York)

2014 2015

Experimentation(Uganda)

Piloting:Ghana Georgia Maldives Mexico Rwanda Uganda Philippines

2016

Finalising methodological

guidelines

Guidelines presented

to UN Statistical

Commission

Review the availability of sex-disaggregated dataavailability of sex-disaggregated data on land ownership and management in Agricultural Censuses (2006-13) and take stock of the take stock of the methodologies methodologies applied by countries

Focused on questions on plot managers, owners and land tenure

detected the attempts to capture sub-holders Used the available questionnaires (86 out of 105, 82%)

Aimed at feasible recommendations feasible recommendations on gathering data on land ownership and management in Agricultural Censuses (ACs)

World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020)

Ensuring consistency with the EDGE Project’s recommendations

Collaboration w/ UN EDGE Project & Uganda Bureau of Statistics on the design & implementation of a methodological survey experiment on the measurement of individual level asset ownership in 2014 Experimental focus on different approaches to

respondent selection

Continuing improvement & standardization of LSMS-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) questionnaires & approach to data collection re: individual disaggregated information

LSMS Research Program “Gender Differentials in Productivity: Identifying Opportunities for Agricultural Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa,” primarily based on the LSMS-ISA data

GENDER EQUALITY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF PROPERTY REGISTRATION TITLES IN ALBANIA

Objective: To highlight the problems and to suggest possible solutions, related

to property rights based on gender equality, analyzing legal issues and the functionality of immovable property registration processes, in order to rise up a comprehensive database, helpful on policy and law making.

Question: Does IPRO have the capacity to produce gender-disaggregated data on property ownership?

Analyzes is made on three directions: Social influences; Legal base; Administrative issues.