Institutional Reform And Women’s De Facto Rights In Pakistan

CERP is working on a rigorous impact evaluation of two major initiatives designed to address challenges faced on basic legal functions and ensure women’s de facto rights in two key areas: their legal share of inheritance and key rights in marriage. Key rights in marriage: A randomised trial of the training of marriage registrars across the province of Punjab will measure the impact evaluation of their training on women’s financial and legal rights which are already available in the marriage contract. Legal share of inheritance: The land records of Punjab were recently digitised. Using the time lag in the rollout of the newly opened centres of the land database, the project will evaluate the impact of the new system on women inheriting their rightful share of land.