Ulaanbaatar 2013

Mongolia Compact Gender Summary Report: Best Practices And Lessons LearnedPRP internally appointed three Land Marketing Specialists (LMSs) as gender focal points in additionto the current project gender focal point. The PRP PR team also selected “Gender” as one of the keyareas to work on more intensively.Communication materials contain positive gender messages, free from negative stereotypes, andtarget women for participation in registration. This led to high female participation in meetings.Female turnout for enquiries in district and regional offices has always been very high, whichindicates that women understand the importance of real property. TV programs to encourage women‟sinvolvement in property rights, and project‟s gender integration efforts were developed in eachregional center. Furthermore, gender trainings and meetings, in some cases in collaboration withwomen‟s NGOs, were conducted in each regional center. The result of the focus group discussionclearly show that project awareness raising actions are responding to the needs of communitymembers, and specifically the special needs of the vulnerable groups such as single female or maleheaded households and elderly people. A positive influence of the project was that messages sent bycontractors were free from stereotypes and considered men and women equally in participation in theland ownership process.Still, it was observed that traditionally women attend hashaa plot privatization trainings andworkshops on actual land ownership, but the men lead in this process. The project had a clear effecton the understanding on ownership rights, as expressed by an elderly, single man: “I realized thateveryone, even single headed male/ female, elderly people and youth are all entitled to land throughadvocacy of Property Rights Project. And I received a land certificate. Before I could not receive itbecause of my age.”Table 2. Number of participants in public activities organized in 8 regional centers, by sexNo. Regional No. of public meetings Women Men Totalcenters1. Zavkhan 2 42 37 792. Darkhan-Uul 2 49 24 733. Tuv 1 37 28 654. Khovd 9 336 217 5535. Uvurkhangai 4 192 127 3196. Orkhon 2 53 32 857. Khentii 2 78 65 1438. Dornod 3 144 77 221Total 25 931 607 1,538Low-income and/or female-headed households, and marginalized groups of society have beeninformed and consulted through public outreach and consultation activities. Female participation wasemphasized in planning and implementation stages of hashaa plot privatization and registrationactivities. All information on hashaa plot owners, possessors and other residents under this activitywas sex-disaggregated.TRIADA, the current GASR property registration system, is not set up to capture data on whether theperson registering is a man or a woman. This caused difficulties for evaluating whether there wasgender equality in the land privatization process. PRP sent an official letter to GASR and ALACGaCregarding inclusion of the gender box in the paper applications of both agencies, and discussions withland agencies have indicated they are willing to introduce such a “gender box.” This sexdisaggregateddata box is already included in the EPRS /electronic property registration system of theproject. The box is shown in image 1, in particular the red highlighted section.Page 23 of 8023