Sub-Saharan Africa
There are 290 resources related to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Building Climate Resilience through Effective, Gender-Sensitive Migration Policy in the SADC Region
2020
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Center for International Governance Innovation, South African Institute of International Affairs
Bertha Chiroro
This policy briefing discusses the centrality of communicating climate change impacts through a people-centered approach that considers communities’ wellbeing by linking climate change to poverty…
Post-Conflict Restitution of Customary Land: Guidelines and Trajectories of Change
2023
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World Development
Sandra F. Joireman and Rosine Tchatchoua-Djomo
Since the 1990s a body of soft international law and public policy has developed around property restitution after conflict. The Pinheiro Principles and the Voluntary…
IRC Watchlist 2021
2020
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International Rescue Commission
The IRC is launching Watchlist 2021 as a call to action for global leaders and the general public. Historically, the annual Watchlist was a humanitarian…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice
2022
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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
E. Tendayi Achiume
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots…
Natural Resources and Conflict: A Guide for Mediation Practitioners
2015
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United Nations Department of Political Affairs and United Nations Environment Programme
Michael J. Brown, Alex Grzybowski, David Jensen, and Josie Lianna Kaye
This report bridges the gap between the technical and political aspects by providing a much needed conflict resolution framework for disputes that center on natural…
Climate Change and Conflict in the Horn of Africa: A Gendered Perspective
2022
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Africa Amani Journal
Jihan Ali, Rhoda Mwasigwa, and Michael Sitawa
Despite much research on climate-conflict linkages, little attention has been paid to the conflict-climate-gender triple nexus. Threats from conflict and climate change, as well as…
Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar, Kyungmee Kim, Geoffrey Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Noah Bell, Claire McAllister, Emilie Broek, David Michel, Karolina Eklöw, Elise Remling, Jakob Faller, Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Gadnert, D
Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…
Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential
2013
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UN Environment, UNDP, UN Women, and UN Peacebuilding Support Office
Silja Halle, Adrienne Stork and Cassidy Travis
This report focuses on the relationship between women and natural resources in conflict-affected settings, and discusses how the management of natural resources can be used…
Mujeres y Recursos Naturales: Liberando el Potencial Para la Consolidacion de la Paz
2013
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UN Environment, UNDP, UN Women, and UN Peacebuilding Support Office
Las diversas experiencias de las mujeres en tiempos de conflicto tienen poderosas implicaciones para la consolidación de la paz. Su capacidad para recuperarse del conflicto…
Climate Violence = Extreme Climate Conditions x Social Realities: Critical Focus on Women and Girls in Africa
2022
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Dataking Consulting
King Carl Tornam Duho and Scholastica Akalibey
Climate Change and violence are threats to the livelihood and economic sustainability of women and girls in Africa. Despite the current efforts to address the…
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Report of the Secretary General
2020
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United Nations
The past decade has seen a paradigm shift in global understanding of the impacts of the atrocity of conflict-related sexual violence, particularly in terms of…
Women Building Peace
2024
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Conciliation Resources
This volume looks back at a wealth of women’s peacebuilding practice documented by Accord since 1998. Case studies from Cambodia, Sierra Leone, northern Uganda, Papua…
We Demand Change: Violence against Women and Girls in the Greater Horn of Africa during COVID-19
2020
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SIHA Network
There is an attitude that VAWG is unimportant in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. This briefing paper endeavours to highlight just how untrue and…
Introduction: Gender, Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response
2019
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Gender & Development
Julie Lafrenière, Caroline Sweetman, and Theresia Thylin
Welcome to this issue of Gender & Development, which is a joint issue co-edited with Theresia Thylin of UN Women’s Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response…
Women and Climate Change in the Sahel
2020
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Chesney McOmber
The purpose of this paper is to explore the gendered impacts of climate change in the Sahel. In particular, it explores the ways in which…
Gender, Security, and Climate Change Nexus: Taking Violence Prevention Seriously in the Global South
2024
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Universitas Indonesia
Laila Hanifah
According to prior studies, a significant proportion of individuals affected by conflict regularly demonstrate that women experience violence to a greater extent. As the Cold…
Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene
2021
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Springer
Oswald Spring, Úrsula Brauch, and Hans Günter
In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts…
The Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Causes, Costs, and Solutions
2019
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UN Women
Yana Rodgers and Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Across sub-Saharan Africa, the agricultural sector remains critical to local and regional economies. It is the basis for food security and an important source of…
Standing Firm: The Land and Environmental Defenders on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
2023
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Global Witness
For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world,…
Transparency and Accountability in the Extractives Sector: A Synthesis of What Works and What Does Not
2019
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International Initiative for Impact Evaluatio
Francis Rathinam, Priyanka Cardoz, Zeba Siddiqui, and Marie Gaarder
While there are a number of transparency and accountability initiatives in the natural resources governance sector, evidence on the impact of these initiative remains sparse.…
Advancing Gender Equality and Climate Action: A Practical Guide to Setting Targets and Monitoring Progress
2022
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Climate and Development Knowledge Network, Overseas Development Institute, SNV, CARE, and Mercy Corps
Mairi Dupar and Patricia Velasco
Gender inequalities shape people’s vulnerabilities to climate change. Women have less access to the development services and support – such as adequate healthcare, education and…
Gender in the Climate-Conflict Nexus: “Forgotten” Variables, Alternative Securities, and Hidden Power Dimensions
2021
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Politics and Governance
Tobias Ide, Marisa O. Ensor, Virginie Le Masson, and Susanne Kozak
The literature on the security implications of climate change, and in particular on potential climate-conflict linkages, is burgeoning. Up until now, gender considerations have only…
Addressing Climate-Related Security Risks: Towards a Programme for Action
2021
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Weathering Risk
Beatrice Mosello, Christian König, Adam Day, and Chitra Nagarajan
Within the multilateral system, there is increasing interest in exploring how climate change risks interact with other factors – including livelihoods, gender inequality and women’s…
The Root of Inequality? Customary Tenure & Women's Land Rights in West Africa
2021
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Land Portal
Renee Giovarelli, Anne Hennings, Akua O. Britwum, Oluwakemi, and Justine N. UvuzaUdoh, and
In much of West Africa, women are considered breadwinners responsible to provide food for the family. However, women do not only own less land but…
Shoring Up Stability: Addressing Climate and Fragility Risks in the Lake Chad Region
2019
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adelphi
Janani Vivekananda, Martin Wall, Florence Sylvestre, Chitra Nagarajan, and Oli Brown
The people of Lake Chad are caught in a conflict trap. Violent conflict between state security forces and armed opposition groups, poor governance, endemic corruption,…
Women and Sustainable Development Goals
2016
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UN Women
On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the agreed framework for international development. It is…
Understanding Barriers to Women’s Participation in the UN Climate Negotiations: Perspectives from the Least Developed Countries
2025
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International Institute for Environment and Development
Tracy Kajumba, Leisa Perch, Fernanda Alcobé, Elaine Harty, Kwasi Pierre, and Jacqueline Massiah-Simeon
Since 2008, women have accounted for approximately one in three delegates at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations. At the current…
Powering Women Entrepreneurs in Eswatini
2025
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UNDP
The Powering Gender Equality Project is a transformative initiative designed to address gender disparities in the energy sector by empowering women and promoting gender equality…
Pastoralism and Women’s Role in Food Security in the Ethiopian Somali Region
2025
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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Francesco Zecca and Saima Saima
Pastoralism has a significant role in food security for ages particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where elevated levels of food insecurity persist. The main aim of…
Infographic: Climate Change, Conflict and Peace
2023
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Conciliation Resources
Our climate and environment is changing at a rate never seen before in human history. The way we respond to these changes has the potential…