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COVID-19 Gendered Impacts on Livelihoods in Africa
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With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, FinMark Trust i2i launched a series of telephone surveys to track the evolution of the livelihoods impacts of COVID-19 on people across seven c...
Women's Empowerment - The Missing Piece of Environmental Policies
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Ecofeminism, a concept that was coined in 1974 by feminist Francoise d’Eaubonne ideologically links the environmental crisis with gender and highlights the importance of women playing a role in the...
Symposium, Visualizing Climate Change | Episode 1: Climate Change and the Female Gaze
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At this time of crisis, it is important to acknowledge the gendered nuances of the impact of climate change, and how women are playing leading roles in affirmative climate action. To mark World Enviro...
Peace, Development, Human Rights and Gender Equality: The Story of My Life
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On 27 May 2019, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), hosted the second annual SIPRI Lecture, in the presence of His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty Queen Silvia. HE Mi...
Climate Change in Women, Peace and Security National Action Plans
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This SIPRI Insights paper explores how the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) national action plans (NAPs) of 80 states frame and respond to climate change and security. It finds that they do so in diffe...
Climate Change and Security in Urban Pakistan: A Gender Perspective
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This chapter explores the nexus of climate change and security in Pakistan from a gender perspective. Gender inequality and gender norms continue to be major drivers of attitudes and behaviours. The...
Women Building Resilient Cities in the Context of Climate Change: Lessons from Freetown, Sierra Leone
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2242 recognized climate change as an important consideration for the peace and security of women and girls. Women – marginalized in economic, political, an...
Report Summary: Gender, Climate & Security: Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change
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In many regions of the world, the impacts of climate change are exacerbating conditions that threaten peace and security. Rising temperatures, extended droughts, or heavier, harsher storms are resulti...
How Women Can Lead The Resistance Against Climate Change
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In the past decade, women have made great strides attaining key leadership roles in technology, education, and politics. Another area that has shot to international focus, inspired by the Rio+20 agree...
How Women Can Lead The Resistance Against Climate Change
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In the past decade, women have made great strides attaining key leadership roles in technology, education, and politics. Another area that has shot to international focus, inspired by the Rio+20 agree...
Covid-19 in Colombia: Migration, Armed Conflict and Gendered Violence
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In Colombia, 2019 ended with massive demonstrations throughout the country, gathering together several groups, such as students, unions, retirees, feminist organizations, indigenous peoples, Afro-Co...
The Effect of Covid-19 on Women in Artisanal Mining
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Artisanal Mining is a significant source of minerals and metals. According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development 2018 the sector is estimated to produce approximately 80% of...
The Effect of Covid-19 on Women in Artisanal Mining
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Artisanal Mining is a significant source of minerals and metals. According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development 2018 the sector is estimated to produce approximately 80% of...
Contextualisation on Gender, Peace, Security and Environment (Chapter in "Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration")
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These texts on gender, peace, security and environmental problems were written based on my concern about an unequal and unsustainable development process during the past six decades, when the history...
Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Action through National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
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The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process provides an unprecedented opportunity to reduce vulnerability to climate change, while also redressing social and gender inequalities. To realize this potent...
The Power of Narratives: Explaining Inaction on Gender Mainstreaming in Uganda's Climate Change Policy
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Expectations that gender‐mainstreaming efforts would effectively advance gender equality have been disappointed in contemporary sub‐Saharan Africa. Examining this apparent disconnect, we focus on...
Género y Cambio Climático ¿Cómo Abordarlo? / Gender and Climate Change: How to Tackle it?
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Webinar “Género y Cambio Climático ¿Cómo abordarlo?”: Cada vez más, un requisito indispensable para los proyectos de cambio climático es la inclusión de un componente de género. Sin embar...
How Can We Holistically Address Equity, Conservation, Reproductive Health, and Livelihood Needs During the Global Pandemic?
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This webinar, hosted by PRB’s USAID-funded PACE project will focus on the impacts of the global economic crisis caused by the pandemic on vulnerable people, particularly women, who live in remote...
Virtual Roundtable: Women's Economic Empowerment in the Time of COVID-19
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The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Working Group and FinEquity are delighted to cohost a 90-minute virtual roundtable discussion on COVID-19 and Women’s Economic Empowerment, with a focus on...
Industries Post-COVID-19: A Gender-Responsive Approach to Global Economic Recovery
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What most crises have in common is that they hit the most vulnerable and marginalized populations—among which women are disproportionally represented—the hardest. The impact of the COVID-19 pand...
Mother Nature Gets Tired Too - How Women Carry the Burden of Addressing Climate Change
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In dealing with the effects of climate change in the Global South, it seems the world has tasked women with building resilient and adaptable communities. As governments pour more resources into gender...
COVID-19's Disproportionate Impact on Women and Girls
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Because women and girls are already socioeconomically marginalized in many societies, they are especially vulnerable in emergencies. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, women and girls in developing...
Women’s Housing and Land Rights and COVID-19
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Rural women make up a quarter of the world’s population, but many face legal and social barriers that limit their ability to access, use and benefit from the land they tend and depend on for their l...
Climate Change Adaptation and Gender Dynamics
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Lack of access to safe drinking water and salinity often causes water-borne diseases like diarrhoea and malaria, not only among the children but also the adults. Besides safe drinking water, salinity...
10 Lessons From the COVID-19 Frontline For a More Gender-Equal World
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Evidence shows that disease outbreak affects women and men differently, that pandemics exacerbate inequalities for girls and women, who are also often the hardest hit, and that women play an outsize...
Women's Empowerment in Agriculture is Essential to COVID-19 Survival and Recovery
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The COVID-19 pandemic presents a devastating threat to lives and livelihoods around the world. Many development organizations and research institutions are raising their voices and calling for governm...
The Energy Sector Needs a Stronger Female Presence
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Globally, women made up 15% of senior management roles in the power and utilities industry last year. Some industry leaders believe a stronger female presence and voice in the energy sector will...
Oxfam and UN Women webinar on Realizing Women’s land rights to Accelerate Equality Actions 25 years after Beijing
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This webinar, co-organized by Oxfam and UN Women, will focus on women's land rights as fundamental for achieving gender equality in the in context of Beijing +25 and bring momentum ahead of the Genera...
Gender Differences in the Relationship Between and Ownership and Managerial Rights: Implications for Intrahousehold Farm Labor Allocation
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Recent research has increased interest in the intersection of land tenure and gender roles in African agriculture. While formalization of land ownership has been found to have important gender impacts...
Lessons Never Learned: Crisis and Gender‐Based Violence
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The COVID‐19 pandemic exposes underlying inequalities in our socio‐economic and health systems, such as gender‐based violence (GBV). In emergencies, particularly ones that involve quarantine, GB...