Land Rights and the Indus Flood, 2010-2011: Rapid Assessment and Policy Review

This study addresses the following questions: How have the floods affected the security of access to agricultural, homestead, and common lands for people belonging to poor and socially-marginalized communities across the country? How have the entitlements to land rights of different classes, social groups, and genders been affected? In what way might rehabilitation policies or programmes become more sensitive to the position of people who had low, weak, and precarious land entitlements before the floods? Are there opportunities for the reversal of the long-standing structures of inequality and hierarchy in respect to access to land, as a result of new flood-related interventions?