Social Development and Gender

The Importance of Social Development in LAMP2

Central to LAMP2, is that improved land administration and management is a pre-requisite for pro-poor, socio-economic development. Throughout all components of LAMP2, the social aspects of improved land administration and management must be accounted for. Effective land administration and management reform requires procedures and policies to be socially responsible and that LAMP2 fosters policy and procedures that are inclusive, cohesive and accountable. Reference to the Social Development and Gender Framework for LAMP2, 2006 and a summary on “Achieving Inclusion, Cohesion and Accountability in LAMP 2”.

Gender Mainstreaming in LAMP2

As a policy, LAMP2 shall ensure that it contributes to the achievement of gender equity and equality in land administration and management. LAMP2 shall work for women and men’s equal right to become land title holders, equal access to land information and land administration services. To this end, LAMP2 pursues the following guiding principles for gender mainstreaming :

Ensuring the gender sensitivity and gender responsiveness of land administration and management laws and policies that will be enacted through the advocacy of LAMP2;
Conduct of pre-project, during and post-project gender assessment to monitor and assess the effects of LAMP on gender relations in coverage areas;
Active participation of women and men in all LAMP2 activities, including policy reform advocacy, mapping and surveying, adjudication, land titling, land records management and other project activities. The percentages of women and men in these Project activities will be targeted within the range of 40-60%;
Inclusion in the program capability and capacity building activities (i.e. gender sensitivity, gender mainstreaming, alternative dispute resolution processes, transformational leadership skills, etc) to enable women and men to actively and effectively participate in pre-during-post LAMP2 activities;
Avoidance of gender stereotyping (i.e. linguistic and visual biases and assigning roles based on gender stereotypes) in the internal and external operations of LAMP2, including all of its Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials;
Encouraging women and men's equal opportunity to apply for land titles, equal opportunity to own land titles, and equal opportunity to participate in decision-making processes related to their lands. LAMP shall develop mechanisms to support equal opportunity, including procedures to record conjugal land properties in the names of both spouses;
Development of sex-disaggregated national land records database system to easily monitor the extent of gender gap in land administration; and
Ensure that at least five percent of LAMP budget, as mandated by Section 27 of the 2003 General Appropriations Act and Local Budget Memorandum No. 2003-42 of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), are directly and/or indirectly used for GAD in LAMP2.