Individual Consultant to Conduct a Legal, Policy and Gender Review of Land Gover

Description of the Assignment The consultant will be responsible for the following:Desk ReviewReview the Constitution of the Kingdom of Eswatini (2005) and its implications for land governance.Review existing land-related legislation, regulations and policies, including but not limited to: Land administration, land use planning and land management laws; Environmental and natural resource management legislation; Local governance and traditional authority frameworks relate to land.Review the draft of the National Land Policy and related background documentation.Review relevant international and regional frameworks, including human rights, gender equality, land governance and sustainable land management commitments.Legal and Policy AnalysisAnalyse the coherence and consistency of land-related legal and policy instruments.Identify areas requiring harmonization, amendment or development of new legal or policy instruments.Examine institutional mandates, roles and coordination mechanisms related to land governance.Gender and Social Inclusion AnalysisAssess the extent to which existing land laws, policies and institutional arrangements address gender equality and women’s land rights, including alignment between statutory provisions, policy and customary practice with constitutional equality and human rights commitments.Analyse barriers faced by women, youth and other vulnerable groups in accessing, controlling and benefiting from land, using an intersectional lens (e.g., age, marital status—single/married/divorced/widowed, household headship, disability, rural/urban/peri-urban location and poverty status).Identify entry points for strengthening gender-responsive and inclusive land governance, including recommendations that are specific enough to inform policy clauses, implementation measures and institutional procedures, and propose practical gender indicators/data improvements where administrative data are weak.Case Studies/Case LawSelect communities/chiefdoms and urban/pe