LADEC's "Land Conflict Prevention and Resolution" project shares its experience on gender inclusion with a regional gender team from Swiss-funded projects.

LADEC, through experts from the Land Conflict Prevention and Resolution Project, attended a training workshop organized by the Swiss Cooperation Office in Burundi and the Great Lakes region. The workshop focused on gender inclusion in programs for the transformation of social gender norms. It was organized for gender experts and focal points of projects implemented by organizations funded by the Swiss Cooperation in Burundi and the Great Lakes Region. (Burundi, Rwanda and  Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo).

This workshop, held from March 13 to March 17 at the Hôtel des Plateaux in Ngozi (Burundi), focused on gender mainstreaming throughout the project cycle and gender budgeting.

It was an opportunity for the "Land Conflict Prevention and Resolution" project to share its experience in implementing actions that contribute to gender-sensitive change with the regional team of experts visiting the project.

This observation was made by the team during a brief presentation of the project's achievements by the project manager and during a visit to the Ngozi Court of Appeal. Indeed, the judges of this Court expressed their satisfaction with the project's work, particularly in terms of raising the awareness of magistrates to take into account international legal instruments ratified by Burundi in land-related judicial decisions that do not discriminate against women in the absence of a law governing inheritance, and matrimonial regimes, but also to support the Supreme Court in establishing a land case law that promotes equality of all (men and women) before the law, and more particularly access to land ownership rights, through themes addressed by this national document.

Photo: visit to the Ngozi Court of Appeal by the team       

Justice professionals took this opportunity to express their need for support in field visits, observations and verifications in enforcing judgments handed down, for a proper administration of justice and in the interests of those subject to trial.

The "Land Conflict Prevention and Resolution" project is a gender-sensitive project that promotes gender equality on access to land, through its focus on promoting women's land rights in Burundian jurisdictions, which it has achieved through its activities centered on promoting gender equality through the establishment of land jurisprudence.

To read the collection, click on the following link:

https://ladec.bi/images/document/Jurisprudence_foncire_vf_compressed_1.pdf