RRI’s Gender Database builds on the Bundle of Rights to assess the extent to which legal frameworks recognize Indigenous, and local community women’s specific rights to community forests, and whether those states are meeting their obligations under national and international laws.
 
RRI’s Gender Database builds on the Bundle of Rights to assess the extent to which legal frameworks recognize Indigenous, and local community women’s specific rights to community forests, and whether those states are meeting their obligations under national and international laws. These frameworks, called community-based tenure regimes (CBTRs), are defined distinguishable sets of national, state-issued laws and regulations governing “all situations under which the right to own or manage terrestrial natural resources is held at the community level.”
 
Different regimes offer varying degrees of tenure security based on unique bundle of rights afforded to communities and the women within these communities through each legal framework. Read the Gender Methodology.
 
As of 2024, national law recognizes X CBTR[s] in Country:

View which rights are recognized under each CBTR below.
 
CBTRs with an “*” at the end of their name reflect ones that have been established since 2016.