
Women, Awareness and Land Conflicts: Evidence from Makete Tanzania
This paper examines the awareness and information access linkages that
could be improved to enhance women access to appropriate conflict
resolution mechanisms in rural Tanzania. The awareness and access to
information indices were constructed and combined with women
satisfaction levels based on survey data from 112 women in Makete
district. The results suggest that public awareness programmes have the
potentials to increasing knowledge on conflict resolution options
available to women and enhances the chances that they would report land
cases to relevant authorities. Furthermore, the mismatch between land
right information delivery through public meetings and village leaders
and the need to reduce land conflict in rural areas have caused women to
report cases to irrelevant authorities. There is therefore a need for
Government, NGOs and international donor community to empower local land
tribunals in terms of their capacity to deliver public awareness
education among rural communities.