Resources
Climate Change Impacts on Gender Relations in Bangladesh: Socio-Environmental Struggle of the Shora Forest Community in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest
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This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr)....
Gender-Based Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies Among Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana: What Lessons for Nationally-appropriate Mitigation Actions Exist? (Chapter in "Climate Change and Sub-Saharan Africa")
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If the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO's) evidence that women produce over 70% of sub-Saharan Africa's food is true, then targeting women during agriculture-related research, technology devel...
Empowering Women Means Taking a Stand for Environmental Rights
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The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern Kenya, face many of the same challenges as other indigenous communities around the world. They have...
How Feminist Research Will Help Solve the Climate Crisis
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As the impacts of global warming are already being felt and we are warned of the irreversible impacts, Maria Tanyang tells us why women’s situated knowledge will increasingly prove to be a key an...
When It Comes to Addressing Climate Change, Gender Matters
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Most low-income people world wide are women, and many women face gender discrimination in addition to poverty. Both factors mean greater vulnerability to extreme events like droughts and floods as the...
ASEAN's Transormative Journey: Role of Women in Peace and Security - Analysis
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ASEAN has embarked on exploring how to implement the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the region. It has recently organised “an inaugural inter-sectoral dialogue on WPS issues in the ASEAN...
Is Environmental Peacebuilding the Answer to South Sudan’s Conflict?
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September 12, 2019 marks one year since South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and former Vice President-turned-opposition leader Riek Machar signed a new peace agreement. The human and environmental co...
UNCCD Global Mechanism Addresses Gender Equality in LDN Initiatives
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6 September 2019: The Global Mechanism of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has published a briefing note and manual to advance gender equality in land degradation neutrality in (LDN...
Let's Get Climate Action Into Traction with Gender Equality
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Climate change is already altering the face of our planet. Research shows that we need to put all our efforts over the coming decade to limit warming to 1.5°C and mitigate the catastrophic risks pos...
Securing Better Land Rights for Women Farmers in Kenya and Burkina Faso
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In Kenya and Burkina Faso, accessing land for agriculture can be a major challenge for women due to poor governance and gender inequality. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, women...
Improving Access to Land for Women in the Arab World: Policy Options and Tools for Triggering Social and Economic Development
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It is estimated that in developing countries, women are responsible for the production of 60 to 80 percent of food and yet, they rarely own the agricultural land. They work with low tenure security, l...
To Build Peace, Boost the Women Who Lead the Movements
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mages of this year’s grassroots movements for social and political change—such as the ouster of authoritarian rulers in Sudan and Algeria—reiterate that women worldwide are driving campaigns tha...
Why Gender Matters in Climate Adaptation
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Climate change will not affect people equally. Those living through its most adverse effects will have contributed least to the problem and have fewer resources to adapt to its impacts. For adapta...
Joining Forces to Empower Women in Senegal
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Where are the effects of climate change felt the strongest? West Africa shoulders some of the heaviest impacts created by climate change, particularly in communities where families live off the land....
CoP: Only 25% Nations Include Gender Discussions in Land Degradation Targets
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Only around 20 of more than 80 countries have included discussions on the role of gender and women in their targets to halt land degradation by 2030, according to a briefing note released at the 14thÂ...
If Women, Peace and Security Agenda Is to Be More Than Words, Congress Must Stay Engaged
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On paper, proponents of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the U.S. have a lot to celebrate. Twenty years after the international community recognized the critically important role women pl...
Preventing Conflict, Transforming Justice, Securing the Peace: A Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
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To mark the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), the Security Council adopted resolution 2122 (2013) inviting the Secretary-General to conduct a review with regard to the i...
Women for Water Partnership: She Decides?
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The importance of involving both women and men in the management of water has been recognized since 1977 at the UN Water Conference at Mar del Plata. More recently, the SDG 5 acknowledges the essentia...
Inception Workshop on "Gender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Connecting Research with Extractive Sector Governance" Project
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The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in partnership with Carleton University and others will hold an inception workshop for the new project "Gender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Min...
Women and Youth: Living Apart Together
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Women and youth are two major groups affected by lack of access to safe water and sanitation. They are often excluded from participation or representation in decision making processes related to water...
Tapping our Potential: Women’s Water Leadership in the Nile Basin
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Cooperation over the shared water resources of the Nile Basin is essential to water security and development in the region. To mitigate and manage potential and actual drivers of water-related conflic...
Gender and Water in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Opportunities
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Climate change is exacerbating existing water insecurity globally, with significant gender consequences. Changes in water availability, access, scarcity and security play critical roles in shaping the...
Taking Gender Seriously in Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainability Science Research: Views from Feminist Debates and Sub-Saharan Small-scale Agriculture
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People, places, and production contributing the least to climate change will suffer the most. This calls for adaptation as a key climate change response. But adaptation is surrounded by problems. Fina...
The Internationalization of Security Sector Gender Reforms in Post-Conflict Countries
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With the passing of several UN Security Council Resolutions related to Women, Peace and Security, gender balancing security sector reforms (SSR)—or policies that ensure the equal participation of...
Gender, Nationalism and Conflict Transformation: New Themes and Old Problems in Northern Ireland Politics
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Utilising Northern Ireland as a case study, this book presents an analysis of the gender and sexual politics of conflict transformation.The book synthesises a vast array of international sources with...
Advancing Gender in The Environment: Gender and Urban Services
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Rapid urbanization shifts social, economic, and political dynamics, with particular impacts on women’s empowerment and gender equality. Expanding cities offer a range of urban development opportunit...
Plan de Accion Genero y Cambio Climatico de Republica Dominicana (PAGCC-RD)
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El Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático para República Dominicana (PAGCC-RD) es el resultado de un proceso de coordinación nacional que tuvo lugar entre septiembre de 2016 y marzo de 2017,...
Women as Change-makers in the Governance of Shared Waters
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Issues of women’s participation and gender equality in the governance of shared waters have received insufficient attention to date in both the research and practice literature, yet action is happen...
Women for Climate Justice- Morning Tea
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Join us for morning tea to learn about upcoming opportunities for women to support climate justice, including a Women's Climate Justice Camp in October, and a women's contingent at the Climate Strike...
South Africa: How More Women in Agriculture Will End Food Security, Tackle Land Reform
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Addressing gender disparities in the agricultural sector is a prerequisite to increasing women and youth participation in the sector, creating much-needed employment opportunities and ensuring food se...