The Vietnam land rights toolkit is an archived training resource on gender and property rights. Its five modules bring together rights awareness, land law, marriage and family, inheritance, and monitoring by community volunteers.
This Program aims to increase farmers’ awareness of land rights, facilitate their ability to exercise these rights, collect evidence on the (key) barriers farmers face in upholding land rights, and strengthen the capacity of local civil society organizations and mass organizations to advocate for gender equitable application of existing laws. A key activity in the project is the organization and support of teams of Community Volunteers for Gender Equality Advocacy (CVGEA) to help farmers, particularly women farmers, in the northern province of Hung Yen and the Mekong Delta province of Long An to improve their understanding of land rights.
ICRW and ISDS believe that the first step to securing land rights requires raising awareness of everyone’s legal rights, and emphasizing that women’s rights are protected by law and are just as important as men’s.
The toolkit has five modules:
- Rights and Gender in Vietnam
- Land Law and Gender
- Land Rights in Marriage and Family
- Inheritance Law, Wills, and Women
- Monitoring Skills for the CVGEA
Using the Vietnam land rights toolkit
Begin with the rights and gender training module, then use the five module downloads under Further Reading to explore the topics relevant to your research. The original summary describes work with farmers and community volunteers in Hung Yen and Long An.
The Vietnam Land Access for Women project page provides related program context. For wider tenure and governance material, visit the Vietnam country profile and the women’s land rights collection.
The toolkit’s legal training content belongs to its original program and publication context. Its original summary, module titles, and source documents are retained here as an archive for studying that work.