A new report has revealed that ownership of land by indigenous women remains very low.
The report released by Rights Resource Initiative this month analysed land ownership by indigenous women across 35 countries, among them Kenya.
The report also studied land ownership by women who depend on communal lands and those who claim ancestral lands in the forests.
It shows that ownership of land among indigenous women remains low despite the adoption of the most comprehensive roadmap for women's rights. "Nearly a decade of progress in international law and national legislative reform, a mere 5 per cent of legal frameworks regulating community forest tenure adequately protect women's community-level leadership rights," the report notes.
