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Addressing Water Security Issues in Bangladesh: the Role of Regional Cooperation and Gender
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Bangladesh faces a very vulnerable position in terms of climate change impacts due to its location, and our quality of water is extremely dependent on water use and management practices upstream. Ther...
Kyenjojo Women Start Campaign to Conserve Environment
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Women in Kyenjojo district have stepped up efforts to conserve the environment as one way of mitigating the effects of climate change.The women groups along Matiri Central Forest Reserve have been mob...
Gender and Defence Sector Reform: Problematising the Place of Women in Conflict-Affected Environments
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While gender-responsive Security Sector Reform (SSR) is increasingly recognised as being key to successful SSR programmes, women continue to be marginalised in post-conflict SSR programmes, particular...
Conflict, Peace, and the Evolution of Women's Empowerment
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How do periods of conflict and peace shape women's empowerment around the world? While existing studies have demonstrated that gender inequalities contribute to the propensity for armed conflict, we c...
Indigenous Practice in Agro-Pastoralism and Carbon Management from a Gender Perspective: A Case from Nepal
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Indigenous knowledge is the means making the practice possible in livelihood activity of HKH region. Pasturelands management and agropastoral activities carried out by indigenous people produce enough...
Gender-Transformative Climate Change Adaptation: Advancing Social Equity
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Power and gender inequalities can constrain and undermine climate change adaptation. Those who are vulnerable and marginalized, with limited access to resources and assets, are already facing formidab...
Gender, Resource Management, and Social Unrest: An Ethnographic Case Study
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This paper aims at locating the relationship between gender and resource management, especially the indigenous knowledge system of women for natural resource management of the Kondh tribe of Nayagarh...
Realizing Dreams Through the Power of Land Rights
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In India, a widow named Sonamoti lacks the resources to feed her only son because she was deprived her share of family land. She wishes for the means to grow food for him.Villagers in Myanmar fear the...
Geoengineering's Gender Problem Could Put the Planet at Risk
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A group of British scientists had a plan for a groundbreaking geoengineering test. Working from a disused military airstrip in Norfolk, U.K., they would attach a 3,000-foot hose to a helium balloon,...
CFFP Volunteer Lea Börgerding Speaks with Dorothy Nalubega, a Ugandan Minority Rights Activist, Feminist and Environmentalist
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Lea Börgerding (LB): Dorothy, you are a minority rights activist and environmentalist. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your work? Dorothy Nalubega (DN): I am the African Coordin...
The Role of Women and Gender in the Fight Against Climate Change
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It’s now an established fact that climate change is a risk factor for the life and fundamental rights of millions of people in ways that reflect social and economic inequalities within their co...
Gender Matters in Coastal Livelihood Programs in Indonesia
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Significant investments have been made in improving the well-being of Indonesian coastal communities in recent decades. However, most of these programs have not tackled gender inequalities.Our team st...
How Women Can Lift Malawi Out of Poverty
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More than half of the agricultural labour force in Malawi are women. However, they rarely get their fair share for the hard work they do in the fields – female farmers earn three times less than the...
Women From the Xingu Territory Unite Against Threats from Bolsonaro Administration
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“We don’t think about selling wood or any part of the Earth to get money. We have so many ways to support ourselves that we don’t need to destroy anything.” This declaration came from Anna Ter...
Inaugural Meeting of the AfP Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Issues
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As a community, we as peacebuilders are committed to the values of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). We have recognized that DEI is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. Subs...
Global Land Tool Network Gender Strategy (2019–2030): Towards Securing Women’s and Girls’ Land and Property Rights
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Gender is central to Global Land Tool Network’s overall Strategy for 2018–2030. Our Gender Strategy reflects and reinforces this. It focuses on securing women’s and girls’ land tenure, lan...
Country Gender Assessment of Agriculture and the Rural Sector in Indonesia
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Agriculture, as a vital sector of the Indonesian economy, provides income for the majority of Indonesian households today. This sector is sustained by agricultural commodities such as rice, corn an...
Country Gender Assessment of Agriculture and the Rural Sector in Papua New Guinea
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In 2017, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) commissioned a gender assessment of the agriculture and rural sector in Papua New Guinea. The a...
Benefits of Gender Equality in Sustainable Ecosystem Management
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Over the last several decades, principles of gender equality and women’s empowerment have permeated into numerous internationally agreed-upon goals. Ranging from commitments on human rights, pea...
Climate Conferences are Male, Pale and Stale- It's Time to Bring in Women
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The COP25 climate meeting in Madrid concluded over the weekend. As in past meetings, the talks failed to make much progress on international climate action. And again, the views and needs of women wer...
Advances for Gender Equality at COP25
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After nearly two weeks of negotiations at COP 25 climate negotiations in Madrid, Spain, the governments have adopted a new 5-year Gender Action Plan (GAP) that progressively builds upon the first GAP,...
The Dark Side of Environmental Peacebuilding
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Environmental peacebuilding refers to efforts aimed at building more peaceful relations through environmental cooperation, natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk re...
Status of Women in Afghanistan: Findings From the 2019 Survey of the Afghan People
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Underrepresented in the peace process, Afghan women are concerned about potential outcomes and implications of a possible U.S. withdrawal. The 2019 Survey of the Afghan People—based on face-to-face...
How to Build Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response in Your Operation
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Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most oppressive forms of gender inequality and stands as a fundamental barrier to equal participation of women and men in social, economic, and po...
Gender Equality in Nordic Peace and Mediation Efforts: Norms and Practice
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This talk will focus on models for studying norm contestation in world society, and then illustrates the model's use with reference to three case studies including fundamental rights, torture prohibi...
Libera: Securing Women's Land Rights Advances Equity in Our Communities
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The African Union (AU) Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges, the AU Declaration of committing 2010 - 2020 as the African Women's Decade and the AU 30 per cent target for documented land rights in...
Women in Local Governance Are Key to Building Resilience to Climate-Fragility Risks
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The United Nations has recognized climate change as having important implications for peace and security, acting as a “threat multiplier” to other drivers of insecurity. In already fragile context...
Governance, Gender and the Appropriation of Natural Resources: A Case Study of ‘Left-Behind’ Women’s Collective Action in China
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China’s rapid urbanization has created large scale of population migration, resulting in many villages being dominated by “left-behind” women, and weak governance of those collectively owned res...
Energy, Gender, and GBV in Emergencies: State of Principles, Knowledge, and Practice
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The Women's Refugee Commission and Mercy Corps’ Energy in Emergencies: Reducing Risks of Gender-based Violence (EEMRG) project, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refug...
How Do Post-Conflict Environmental Initiatives Affect Women's Empowerment within Natural Resource Management in the Short Term?
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This thesis aims to explain how post-conflict environmental initiatives affect women’s empowerment within natural resource management in the short term. It argues that the lack of causal effect betw...