IGAD BACKS WOMEN EQUAL RIGHTS TO OWN LAND

The executive secretary of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), says that skewed land ownership is the region's oldest disease and that gender disparities must be addressed if the region is to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union Agenda 2063. At a meeting in July in Nairobi, seven ministers from member states signed a document titled Regional Women's Land Rights Agenda. The document, seeks to change the current situation where only between two to seven percent of women in the region own land titles, despite more than half of them working in agriculture.