| Rural Women’s Property Rights in Agrarian Reform |
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| Tuesday, 26 January 2010 12:50 |
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0 0 0 PKKK believes that genuine agrarian reform is key to rural development. This includes providing appropriate support and services to land reform beneficiaries in order to ensure productive harvest and sustain positive impacts of asset reform. Thus, PKKK’s position on the on-going agrarian reform struggle is the extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) with reform The PKKK through its AR Cluster focused on the drafting of an alternative guideline and Administrative Order on Land Titling for women agrarian reform beneficiaries. This policy proposal seeks to give women equal property rights to land. Equal rights to ownership should be stated in the land title, bearing the name of both man and The AR cluster continued to coordinate with the DAR Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development (BARBD) for other matters concerning gender mainstreaming in the CARP implementation, especially the convening of the GAD Technical Working Group. woman, not just as an adjunct of the identity of the man which is the current practice. One activity that PKKK facilitated in coordination with DAR-BARBD was the Dialogue of the Asian Peasant Women Delegates of La Via Campesina with the DAR Secretary Nasser Pangandaman. This was held last September 2007. The PKKK also participated and presented the women's agenda in the various discussions concerning CARP after 2008.
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