Female single parenting especially in the rural areas is on the ascendancy, Mrs Habib Amama Kaleem, Social Development and Gender Officer of Land Administration Project, has said.
She said it was common to see women performing the role of men in addition to their role as mothers due to the demise of partners or fathers neglecting their children.
Mrs Kaleem said this at a day�s forum on land administration organized for the Savelugu women groups as part of the gender strategy for the second phase of the Ghana Land Administration Project (LAP2).
She said most of the female single parents, in their quest to generate income to take care of their children, often rented land to farm on and they were sometimes asked to stop farming at the will of the land owner.
Mrs Kaleem said was one of the reasons why the project was schooling women groups on the documentation and processes of both temporal and permanent land acquisition to enable them have control over lands in order to engage in their farming businesses.
She said sometime past women were just manual workers who only weeded, sow seed and sold yields but now some women were on their own as farm owners but due to land restrictions they were unable to cultivate permanent crops such as mango.
Mrs Kaleem said the gender strategy of LAP-2 also aimed at empowering the women with the necessary information on joint land registration to enable them demand their share in case of divorce or the demise of partners.
Mr Saaka Takora, an official at the Tamale office of the Town and Country Planning Department, advised participants to secure permit before developing their land since it was a requirement under the law.
Mr Samuel Anin, Head of Land Valuation Division of the Lands Commission, urged the public to visit the Commission�s office to process their land acquisition documentations and cautioned the public to avoid the services of �middle men.�
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