To best realize results for women, gender engagement should occur early in compact implementation, including awareness raising around not only the importance of land registration but also the use of land as collateral. The late addition of gender in the Property Rights Project implementation process and related insufficient time for a complete gender assessment meant that the project did not develop as comprehensive of a set of measures or allocate resources and budget as it might have to address gender disparities. This could have limited the benefits of Property Rights Project interventions on women. The evaluation found that women were registering land in high numbers in their own names, but they generally registered smaller, less valuable plots, and were less likely to use land as a collateral than their male counterparts. These subjects could have been covered in more depth during the outreach and education sessions, or through other measures, such as incentives.
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