Resources
The Best & Worst Countries for Women: Measuring Equality with the WPS Index
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Join the Institute for Global Development for a conversation on the findings of the Second Edition of the Global Women Peace & Security (WPS) Index, which ranks countries on women's comprehensive...
SDGs Ambassadors Forum 2020
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by world leaders at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015. Encompassing everything from health to gender equality and education,...
What Can National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights Do for Women's Rights?
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National action plans (NAPs) are currently applied by states as one of the key policy tools for the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) at the...
Gender Gap Is Causing Wars Says Defence Forces Chief
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“In the context of eco-system governance, perhaps the most invasive species of all is human beings,” he said.The gender gap is one of the biggest drivers of inter-state and intra-state violence an...
Gender Differences in Land Property Rights: How Land Tenure Security Impacts Investments and Agricultural Productivity in Tanzania
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The agricultural sector in Tanzania accounts for more than two-thirds of employment and has recorded persistent low levels of investment and productivity. Among other factors, land right conflicts and...
Climate Change Forum Hosted by League of Women Voters of Newton
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The League of Women Voters of Newton, along with the Leagues of Framingham, Needham, Wayland, Wellesley and Weston, will co-host a community conversation that relates. You’ll learn how Massachus...
Educating Girls Is More Effective in the Climate Emergency than Many Green Technologies
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Hydrogen powered superyachts and donations from billionaires often grab headlines in the fight against climate change. Whilst more simple and potentially more effective ways to tackle the climate emer...
Gender Just Climate Solutions: Examples of Best Practice
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The Women and Gender Constituency, along with other women, gender, and human rights advocates, has been actively pushing world leaders to ensure just and equitable climate policies that put respect of...
Opportunities to Empower Women with Enhanced Access to Climate Information Services for Transformative Adaptation Actions in Viet Nam's Agricultural Sectors
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This technical brief was designed to inform policy makers in the review and update of Viet Nam's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC). It aims to highlight how gender-sensitive climate policies c...
Gender in Adaptation Planning for the Agriculture Sectors: Guide for Trainers
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Based on the gender activities carried out, the NAP-Ag programme has developed a training guide on mainstreaming gender to support countries in their adaptation planning processes. This guide provid...
Gender Responsive Indicators: Gender and NDC Planning for Implementation
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Gender responsiveness refers to outcomes that reflect an understanding of gender roles and inequalities and encourage equal participation, including equal and fair distribution of benefits. Gender res...
Gender Analysis and NDCs: Short Guidance for Government Stakeholders
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For NDCs, the results of a gender analysis should provide concrete, action-oriented recommendations for governance, planning and policy. The analysis can bring together information from different sect...
Toolkit for a Gender-Responsive Process to Formulate and Implement National Adaptation Plans
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The impacts of climate change are not gender-neutral. Consequently, responses to these impacts, whether at the policy level or on the ground in vulnerable communities, must be gender-responsive. The N...
The Welfare Effects of Social Assistance Programmes for Women in India
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The literature has established that the alarming female poverty rate in India is a crucial factor contributing to ‘missing elderly women’. This paper examines the role of an unconditional cash tra...
"Women, Peace, and Security" Initiatives Are National Security Initiatives
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Welcome to today’s symposium, “National Security as a Feminist Issue: Twenty Years of Women, Peace, and Security Initiatives.” In recognition of UN Security Council Resolution 1325’s impending...
Australia Needs to Walk the Talk on Women, Peace and Security
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In October 2000, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1325, which formally established the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. The agenda has become the central framework throu...
Meet Five Newly Empowered Women Farmers from Zambia and Mozambique
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Nine traditional chiefs have partnered with USAID and DFID over the last five years to demarcate and document the land rights of 30,000 women farmers across Zambia and Mozambique.The documents with...
Gender, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Course
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War and conflict affect women, girls, men and boys in different ways, and yet a gender analysis is often absent from peacebuilding theories and processes. This course challenges participants to think...
Dr. Mishkat Al-Moumin on the Importance of Women & the Environment to Sustainable Peace (VIDEO)
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“I believe if you acknowledge women as primary users of environmental resources, if you draft the policy with women [at] the table, offering you their unique perspective and unique feedback, you’r...
Norms and Practices in UN Peacekeeping: Gender and the Environment
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It’s our pleasure to invite you to the talk ‘Norms and Practices in UN Peacekeeping' hosted by the Conflict Security and Development Research Group and the School of Security Studies’ Regional S...
Gender Perspective in Water Management: The Involvement of Women in Participatory Water Institutions of Eastern India
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The paper examines the extent, nature, and factors affecting women’s involvement in participatory irrigation institutions of eastern India. Effective participatory water institutions are urgently ne...
Gender Roles in Peace and Security
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The disastrous consequences for the rights and physical and psychological protection of women during the wars of the 1990s, primarily in Somalia, Rwanda and Ex-Yugoslavia, shifted the focus of the Uni...
Toward Gender Sensitivity: Women and Climate Change Policies in China
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Climate change and environmental protection have become increasingly important in China. The country has formulated and strictly enforced a series of policies to address climate change directly. This...
Women in War and Peace: Grassroots Peacebuilding
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The United States Institute of Peace strives, through research, education, and training, to understand this role of nongovernmental entities in bringing about a stable peace in conflict-torn societies...
India's Looming Water Scarcity and the Need for Bringing Women to the Centre Stage
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As the summer months approach, a reality haunts most households across the length and breadth of India and that is an impending water crisis. Be it cities, towns or villages, the reality and hardship...
Economic Aspects of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
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How does women's economic participation shape growth and development? What are the gendered dimensions of war, natural disasters, and state fragility? What is the role of law and policy in ensuring...
Framing and Responding to Climate-Related Security Risks in Swedish Development Cooperation
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Societies worldwide are increasingly facing security challenges posed by climate change. The impacts of climate change exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and undermine human security, and the most de...
Carving Out Meaningfut Space for Justice in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda?
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At the core of SDG16+ is the understanding that in order to enable a better and more sustainable future for all, peace, justice and inclusion cannot be seen as goals in isolation from other key object...
Women on the Front Lines of Climate Change
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'Women on the Frontline of Climate Change' is an exhibition by Self Help Africa, an Irish-based international development organisation that is supporting communities across sub-Saharan Africa to grow...
Twenty Years of Women, Peace and Security Initiatives: Are We Doing Better?
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This keynote session will consist of a “fireside chat” discussion with Ms. Michèle Flournoy. As the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012, Ms. Flourno...