Access to land and women’s empowerment

What can we learn from the women’s land tenure system in the Commune of Chaddra, and from the RTF project’s contribution to women’s socio-economic activities and empowerment through its five-year intervention in Bahr el-Gazal? At the end of this work, it was revealed that access to land and women’s empowerment through market gardening are still problematic in the commune of Chaddra. It’s true that in some areas surrounding Chaddra, access is by inheritance, alliance or purchase, but control is still problematic. Despite the intervention of the RTF project, women are not totally autonomous in some respects (social, of course). So, to achieve a useful end, we asked a number of questions. Our starting point was the question of how women can seize the opportunities that exist in their environment to combat poverty and contribute to sustainable development. Our crucial concern was also to find out whether the RTF project’s contribution to the socio-economic empowerment of women in the Chaddra locality?