The World Resources Institute (WRI) partnered with Resource Equity (RE) and organizations in five countries to identify and conduct case studies of five communities that have relatively gender-equitable land tenure systems. The case studies investigated the extent and strength of women’s tenure rights and drew out the main factors or conditions that enabled women to claim and exercise their rights. The extent of tenure rights was examined according to three dimensions of tenure security:

• Robustness, which includes legitimacy or the recognition of rights in both formal

  and customary systems and the enforceability of rights against third parties;

• Completeness or the scope of rights held, including the right to access, use,
  

  and derive benefits from lands and resources, as well as participation in their

  governance; and

• Durability or the length and certainty of rights