Sub-Saharan Africa
There are 298 resources related to Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Meaningful Participation of Women in Solving Our Common Crises: Gendered Perspectives on Climate Change and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
2022
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Journal of Peacebuilding and Development
Marisa O. Ensor
Often compounding each other, current trends including climate change, environmental degradation, and increased consumption associated with unsustainable development and population growth, present serious threats to…
Environmental Degradation and Genocide
2022
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Genocide Studies and Prevention
Emily Sample and Henry Theriault
In January 2021, the International Association of Genocide Scholars and Genocide Studies and Prevention journal hosted three panels on Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and Mass…
Migration, Authority and the Gendered Organization of Labour in Artisanal Gold Mining in Sierra Leone (and Mozambique)
2022
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Africa
Blair Rutherford
Recent studies of migration into artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) have explored the motivations, strategic agency and professional trajectories of women and men miners who…
Women Farm What They Can Manage: How Time Constraints Affect the Quantity and Quality of Labor for Married Women’s Agricultural Production in Southwestern Nigeria
2022
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World Development
Rachael S. Pierotti, Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, and Olubukola Olayiwola
Across sub-Saharan Africa smallholder farmers depend heavily on manual labor supplied by their households, families, and communities. Gender differences in the ability of farm managers to acquire…
Gender-Differentiated Impacts of a Rural Electrification Policy in Nigeria
2022
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Energy Policy
Martin Cicowiez, Opeyemi Akinyemi, Temilade Sesan, Omobola Adu, and Babajid Sokeye
This paper investigates the potential impacts of the Nigerian Rural Electrification Fund (REF-1) on the development of rural communities and specifically assesses the policy's differential impacts on…
Companies Impact Women's Rights and Social Conflict In Liberia and Sierra Leone
2022
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Swedwatch
Liberia and Sierra Leone have identified economic growth, sustainable management of natural resources and inclusion of women as central to peace and prosperity. Still, research…
Adaptive Strategies to Deforestation Among Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPS) Collectors Across Gender Line in Oluwa Forest Reserve Area of Ondo State, Nigeria
2020
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Agro-Science
Olawale Julius Aluko, A.A. Adejumo, and Ayodotun Bobadoye
Forest and the goods and services they provide are essential for human livelihood and wellbeing. An assessment on the likely impact of deforestation on NTFPs…
National Gender Profile of Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods
2021
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FAO
Somalia’s geopolitical situation and the conflict that the country has experienced for an extended period of time has generated several gaps in information with regard…
Plantations, Women, and Food Security in Africa: Interrogating the Investment Pathway Towards Zero Hunger in Cameroon and Ghana
2021
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World Development
Lotsmart N. Fonjong and Adwoa Y. Gyapong
In this paper, we critically engage with SDG-2- Target 2.3 and SDG-5 to examine how and why large-scale agricultural land acquisitions modify the social relations…
Gender Relations and Forest Resource Management in Post-COVID-19 Age
2020
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Oil Mortality in Post-Fossil Fuel Era Nigeria
Augustine Sadiq Okoh
Gender relation will play critical role in exiting fossil fuel while also ensuring the post-COVID-19 age is aligned with the global mechanism such as the…
The Climate-Gender-Conflict Nexus: Amplifying Women's Contributions at the Grassroots
2020
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Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security
Jessica Smith, Lauren Olosky, and Jennifer Grosman Fernandez
This report explores the linkages between climate change and conflict and how gender is a cross-cutting lens through which people experience both issues. It studies…
Gender Gap Assessment: South Central Somalia and Puntland
2021
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Save Somali Women and Children; Oxfam
Sean Robert, Abigail Ewen, Ahmed Ibrahim, and Abdirizak Rashid
The purpose of this study is to generate evidence to support the existence of a gender gap in South-Central Somalia and Puntland. This study examines…
Gender and Disaster. Bibliography and Reference Guide, Volume 1
2020
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IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster, University College London
Louisa Acciari, Maureen Fordham, Virginie Le Masson, Anjali Saran, Olivia Walmsley, and Punam Yadav
This first volume is part of an ongoing series to compile the literature on Gender and Disaster and to share it with other disciplines and…
Empty Promises Down the Line? A Human Rights Impact Assessment of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline
2020
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Oxfam
Bogrand, Andrew Brodeur, Caroline Mbenna, Devota Akoli Atine, Joy Ayebare, Clare Twesigye, Bashir Sellwood, and Scott A.
This community based human rights impact assessment highlights the social, environmental, cultural, and human rights risks of the East African Crude Oil pipeline for communities…
Women, Peace and Security in Rwanda – Promises and Pitfalls
2020
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The Nordic Africa Institute
Diana Højlund Madsen
With its high level of female representation and its successful reconciliation process after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has emerged as something of an African and…
Lessons Learned: Conflict and Gender Sensitive Programming in Fragile and Conflict Affected Contexts
2017
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Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme
Integrating conflict and gender sensitive approaches into all programmes operating in fragile and conflict-affected contexts is essential to ensuring such interventions ‘do no harm’.1,2 Research…
Women, Internal Displacement and the Boko Haram Conflict: Broadening the Debate
2020
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African Security
Titilope F Ajayi
Women and children make up 79 per cent of the population displaced by the conflict between the Nigerian government and the armed movement informally known…
New Directions in Women, Peace and Security
2020
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Bristol University Press
Soumita Basu, Paul Kirby, and Laura J. Shepherd
What does gender equality mean for peace, justice, and security? At the turn of the 21st century, feminist advocates persuaded the United Nations Security Council…
The Vulnerability of Women to Climate Change in Coastal Regions of Nigeria: A Case of the Ilaje Community in Ondo State
2020
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Journal of Cleaner Production
Adenike A. Akinsemoluab and Obafemi A.P. Olukoyaac
Values, patriarchal norms, and traditions related to gender and gendering are diverse among societies, communities, and precincts. As such, although climate change is expected to…
Climate Crisis, Gender Inequalities and Local Response in Somalia/Somaliland
2020
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Forced Migration
Amy Croome and Muna Hussein
Gender inequality in Somalia/Somaliland in general was already very high before the current climate crisis: women have less power and participation in economic, educational and…
Winning the Peace: Peacebuilding and Climate Change in Mali and Somalia
2020
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DanChurchAid, Norwegian Church Aid, and ACTAlliance
Hannah Grene, Sidi Guindo, Amadou Guindo, Abdourahamane Kamagnagou, Abdullahi Rashi Abdullahi, and Alma Mølset Andersen
In our research in Mali and Somalia, we set out to explore how ordinary people are experiencing the combined effects of climate change and conflict.…
No Tribe In Crime: Changing Pastoralism and Conflict in Nigeria’s Middle Belt - Research and Policy Brief
2019
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Mercy Corps
Chitra Nagarajan, Ibrahim Hassan, and Phebe Banu
Farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria has attracted increased media attention both locally and internationally, though its main actors, causes, and consequences are often the source of…
Down the Green Feminist Road
2020
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Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Adalmiina Erkkola, Grace Armstrong
WILPF recognises the close relationship between the environment, women’s rights and peace. For this reason, at the Congress in 2018, WILPF launched the Environmental Peace…
Climate Change in Women, Peace and Security National Action Plans
2020
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Elizabeth Smith
This SIPRI Insights paper explores how the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) national action plans (NAPs) of 80 states frame and respond to climate change…
Case 2: Nigeria
2020
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UN University Centre for Policy Research
Jessica Caus
This case study explores the links between climate change and violent conflict in Nigeria. Acknowledging that the causal chains are often indirect and difficult to…
Bridging the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap in Smallholder Agriculture in Nigeria: An Untapped Potential for Sustainable Development
2020
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World Development
Olayinka O. Adegbite and Charles L. Machethe
The sustainable development of Nigeria is being challenged by a persistent large financial inclusion gender gap (FIGG). The same gender gap in the country’s smallholder…
Gender in Climate Change, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Policies: Insights from East Africa
2019
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Climatic Change
Edidah L. Ampaire, Mariola Acosta, Sofia Huyer, Ritah Kigonya, Perez Muchunguzi, Rebecca Muna, and Laurence Jassogne
Gender mainstreaming was acknowledged as an indispensable strategy for achieving gender equality at the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action. Since then, governments have made substantial…
Effect of Armed Conflict on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria
2020
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World Bank Group
Uche Eseosa Ekhator-Mobayode, Lucia C. Hanmer, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich, and Diana Jimena Arango
Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but in conflict settings it often receives less…
When Local Law Impedes Conflict Resolution: Women's Oil Protests in the Niger Delta
2020
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African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review
Laine Munir
Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region hosts a long-standing conflict among residents, the government, and foreign oil companies operating in rural areas. Both peaceful and armed…
A Climate Terrorism Assemblage? Exploring the Politics of Climate Change-Terrorism-Radicalisation Relations
2020
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Political Geography
Andrew Telford
Despite a series of claims from Bernie Sanders (2015), Barack Obama (2015), and others arguing that climate change, radicalisation, and terrorism are connected by complex…