Can Promotion Groups Help Strengthen Women’s Access and Control over Land?

Nov 24, 2020 | Ibrahima Dia
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In Senegal, women’s ‘promotion groups’ have traditionally been vehicles for helping women share resources, ideas and experiences to increase income. But they are also – somewhat expectedly – enabling women to access and control land, although with limitations. Guest blogger Ibrahima Dia discusses. 

As in other sub-Saharan African countries, in Senegal women farmers still struggle to secure land rights – despite a progressive legal framework that supports equal land rights. This is primarily due to socio-cultural constraints and legal implementation challenges.