Sustainability and Social Justice
Pursuing Gender-Transformative Change in Customary Tenure Systems: Civil Society Work in Zambia
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article examines activities undertaken by civil society organisations in Zambia to create gender-transformative change in customary tenure systems. It is based on primary data collected through interviews and group discussions with NGO representatives, lawyers and women’s rights advocates, chiefs, women leaders, and local community members. The findings show that organisations pursue change by leveraging global and national frameworks and discourses and working with traditional authorities, local magistrates, men and women at the village level. Promoting gender transformative change requires multi-level networking and working across hierarchies of power that extend from the household to the state.
Publication Title
Development in Practice
Publication Date
10-3-2018
Volume
28
Issue
7
First Page
872
Last Page
883
ISSN
0961-4524
DOI
10.1080/09614524.2018.1480896
Keywords
civil society–NGOs, governance and public policy, Sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia
Repository Citation
Caron, Cynthia, "Pursuing Gender-Transformative Change in Customary Tenure Systems: Civil Society Work in Zambia" (2018). Sustainability and Social Justice. 59.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/59