Livelihoods & Economic Empowerment
There are 278 resources related to Livelihoods & Economic Empowerment.
Corruption and SDG5: Gender Equality
2025
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SSRN
Ina Kubbe and Giovanna Rodriguez-Garcia
This chapter examines the complex and often overlooked relationship between corruption and gender equality, focusing on its implications for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG…
Association Between Food Insecurity and Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Gendered Asset Policies
2025
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BMJ Global Health
Faith Miller, Jenevieve Mannell, Laura Brown, Andrew Gibbs, and Abigail Hatcher
Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects an estimated 27% of women globally, with consequences spanning mental, physical and societal well-being. Previous research identifies individual and relational…
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2025
2025
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UN Women
UN Women
The “Gender snapshot 2025” sounds the alarm: if current trends continue, the world will reach 2030 with 351 million women and girls still living in…
Sudan: Women, Food Insecurity, and Famine Risk in Sudan, Gender Snapshot
2025
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UN Women
UN Women
This fact sheet, developed by the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group Sudan, highlights key gendered trends from World Food Programme Quarter 1 2025…
Gender-Based Violence as a Barrier to Women Rights towards Socio-environmental Sustainability
2024
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Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management
A. C. Cristina De la Parra-Guerra, J. Truyol-Padilla , C. García-Alzate, and F. Fuentes Gandara
This study provides an exhaustive analysis of the intersection between gender-based violence and environmental sustainability, focusing on the Colombian experience, particularly within the context of…
How to Do Note: Designing Gender Transformative Approaches in the Context of Women’s Land and Resource Rights
2025
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ReliefWeb
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) aim to challenge and change the underlying social norms, power dynamics,and systemic barriers perpetuating inequality between women and men. Unlike mainstream…
Climate, Peace and Security in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
2025
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Katongo Seyuba
Local communities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) face the combined challenge of climate change and violent conflict, which exacerbates vulnerabilities, poverty, displacement…
Gender Dynamics Within Food Systems in Displacement Contexts: Experiences from Displaced Populations in Nampula, Mozambique
2025
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Frontiers
Thea Synnestvedt, Gracsious Maviza, and Mandlenkosi Maphosa
In Nampula province, Mozambique, internally displaced and refugee communities live in settlements situated at the outskirts of Nampula city. This paper explores the intersection of…
Peacebuilding Perspectives and Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa (chapter in "Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa")
2025
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Palgrave Macmillan
J. Shola Omotola
This chapter proposes a peacebuilding approach to the management of herder-farmer conflicts in Africa. Specifically, the chapter reflects on the contending perspectives on peacebuilding, notably…
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…
Evolution of Food Insecurity in Sudan during the Ongoing Conflict
2024
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International Food Policy Research Institute
Oliver K. Kirui, Khalid Siddig, Monica Fisher, Hala Abushama, Mosab Ahmed, Mariam Raouf, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
Sudan's food security landscape has been dramatically impacted by the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which…
Conflict, Aspirations, and Women’s Empowerment: Household Survey Evidence from Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Nigeria
2024
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Household in Conflict Network
Mulubrhan Amare, Lucia Carrillo, Katrina Kosec, and Jordan Kyle
Using original survey data from three states in rural, southwestern Nigeria, this study examines the relationship between conflict intensity at various distances and the empowerment…
Rural Poverty, Violence, and Power: Rejecting and Endorsing Gender Mainstreaming by Food Security NGOs in Armenia and Georgia
2021
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ScienceDirect
Anna Jenderedjian and Anne C. Bellows
Gender mainstreaming (GM) is a strategy to empower women and promote gender equality. Using mixed-methods, this study draws on perspectives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in…
Women, Water Resource Management, and Sustainable Development: The Turkey-North Cyprus Water Pipeline Project
2018
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Resources
Emine Eminel Sülün
Women’s role in water resource management is recognized, yet the implementation of methods and strategies to get beyond gender-based obstacles to women’s equal participation in…
Bridging Generations: Pathways to a Youth-Inclusive Climate, Peace and Security Agenda
2024
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UNDP
Over 698 million young people, ages 15-35, live in fragile and conflict-affected settings. These settings are highly affected by climate change. Young people find themselves…
Where Are They and Who Are the Peasant Women of the South? The Double Invisibilisation of Women Working on the Land
2024
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Martina Di, Paula Lopez
Through socio-environmental and eco-territorial conflicts, we seek to investigate the conception of peasantry as a contextualized identity, with an unequivocal feminist approach. The peasant subject…
YouTube's role in skill development and self-employment.
2024
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Pauline Wanjuki Njeru
I am Pauline Njeru, I hold a Master of Science degree in Plant Pathology. Well, having graduated with this degree I thought life would be…
Natural Disasters, Foreign Direct Investment; and Women's Rights in Developing Countries
2024
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Social Science Research
Mi Jeong Shin and Seungbin Park
We examine the conditions under which women's economic and political status is less vulnerable in the aftermath of natural disasters. We theorize that women in…
Can Peace Operations Mitigate the Effect of Armed Conflict on Malnutrition? Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
2023
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Environment and Security
Kyle Beardsley and Jessica Beardsley
Armed conflict increases food insecurity leading to malnutrition especially in women, but can peace operations mitigate the increased prevalence of malnutrition in conflict zones? This…
Exploring Environmental Violence: Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement
2024
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Cambridge University Press
Richard Marcantonio, John Paul Lederach, and Agustin Fuentes
The contributors to this book represent a wide breadth of scholarly approaches, including law, social and environmental science, engineering, as well as from the arts…
Be a Man: A Theory of Climate Change, Masculinities and Violence
2024
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Environment and Security
Ben Francis
Experts increasingly agree that the impacts of climate change are likely to create new violent conflict risks and exacerbate existing ones. However, the extent of…
Leveraging Livelihood Diversification for Peacebuilding in Climate- and Conflict-Affected Contexts
2024
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Farah Hegazi and Katongo Seyuba
Livelihoods are central to the relationship between climate change and conflict. Despite the recognition that climate change related livelihood deterioration is associated with conflict, livelihood…
Realities Beyond Reporting: Women Environmental Defenders in South Africa
2022
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Feminist Media Studies
Dalena Tran
Women environmental defenders continue to face marginalization despite their growing significance in ecological conflicts. The media’s role in empowering or further rendering them invisible is…
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…
Gendered Violence Martying Filipina Environmental Defenders
2023
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Extractive Industries and Society
Dalena Tran
This article contributes to discussions of extractive violence by exploring how gender influences violent circumstances under which women were assassinated during environmental conflicts. Partnership with…
Women Leaders in Environmental Management
2024
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Opportunities and Challenges for Women Leaders in Environmental Management
Sreevas T.V.T.K. and Prasad Vasantrao Kulkarni
This book chapter explores the significant role of women leaders in environmental management and their impact on sustainable development. Historically, women have been underrepresented in…
Community Voices on Climate, Peace and Security: Kenya
2023
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CGIAR
Leonardo Medina, Vanessa Souza de Matos, Alex Lekaram, Caroli Giulia, Anna Belli, Oliver Unverdorben, Nyang'ori Ohenjo, Benson Kenduiywo, Theresa Liebig, Grazia Pacillo, Peter Laderach, John Hellin, Stefen Sieber, and Michelle Bonatti
This study conducted a participatory appraisal of climate vulnerabilities and conflict risks three communities across Kenya: 1) members of the Yiaku Indigenous Peoples in the…
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…
The Impact of Conflict on Food Security: Evidence from Household Data in Ethiopia and Malawi
2023
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Agriculture & Food Security
James Muriuki, Darren Hudson, and Syed Fuad
Violent conflicts threaten food security and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa. While a more robust understanding of the causal relationship between food security and conflict…
Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security
2023
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Global Environmental Politics
Cameron Harrington, Phellecitus Montana, Jeremy J. Schmidt, and Ashok Swain
This Forum article reports on a meta-review of more than 19,000 published works on water security, of which less than 1 percent explicitly focus on…