ICRW has created a survey to measure the full spectrum of women’s and men’s property rights – including ownership, use, control and decision making over land, housing and productive assets, such as small farm equipment.
Working with local organizations, ICRW interviewed more than 2,000 men and women in South Africa and Uganda about their relationship to property.
As a pioneer in the effort to quantify women’s property rights on a large scale, ICRW aims to use the findings of this survey to demonstrate the links among property rights, women's empowerment and domestic violence as well as to identify policies that can improve women's rights over land and assets. ICRW will inform policymakers on how improving women’s property rights can advance other development goals, such as reducing domestic violence.