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No dejar a nadie atrás: ¿Por qué la Protección Social Adaptativa debe ser sensible al género e inclusiva?

Dec 16, 2025 | Nohelia Palou y Dra. Charlotte Penel

Mientras el mundo enfrenta una convergencia de crisis, desde las amenazas urgentes de los extremos climáticos y las pandemias hasta los desafíos de largo plazo…

Leaving No One Behind: Why Adaptive Social Protection Must Be Gender-Responsive and Inclusive

Dec 16, 2025 | Nohelia Palou and Dr. Charlotte Penel

As the world grapples with a convergence of crises, from the urgent threats of climate extremes and pandemics to the long-term challenges of economic shocks…

Liberia: From Law to Reality: AWLN Champions Women’s Right to Own Land

Dec 4, 2025 | Patience Jones
Front Page Africa

CAREYSBURG — The African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) Liberia Chapter convened a landmark dialogue on Wednesday at Arjay Farms in Number 7, Kingsville, bringing together…

UK: Northern Ireland’s Rural Women at ‘Disproportionate Risk’ from Climate Change Carbon Budgets, Warns Campaign Group

Nov 30, 2025 | Mark Robinson
MSN

Rural women in the north are among those that could facing a “disproportionate” impact from the government’s future carbon-cutting budgets, according to a campaign group.

It comes…

Cultivating Women’s Leadership for Resilient Agrifood Systems

Nov 26, 2025 | Sabrina Trautman
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

Women’s representation and leadership have long been recognized as drivers of more inclusive, equitable, and resilient food systems. Yet, too often, leadership is confused with…

Ethiopia: Field Coordinator - Tigray

Nov 25, 2025 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and…

South Sudan: Strengthening Resilience in Agriculture, Livelihoods and Markets Phase II (STREAM II)

Nov 25, 2025 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps has been operating in South Sudan since 2005. Since the country’s independence in 2011, Mercy Corps has remained committed to addressing urgent humanitarian…

Kenya: Gender Policy And Strategy Expert – Aquatic Environmental Management

Nov 25, 2025 | African Union - InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources

The African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), a specialized technical office of the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment…

How Climate and Gender Shape Peace and Security: From Mandates to Meaningful Change

Nov 25, 2025 | UN Climate Security Mechanism
UN Climate Security Mechanism

October 2025 marked twenty-five years since the landmark Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Amid rising polarization, escalating conflicts, and the intensifying…

USA: Kroc Institute Visiting Research Fellowship 2026-2027

Nov 25, 2025 | University of Notre Dame: Keough School of Global Affairs

Each year, the Kroc Institute's Visiting Research Fellows Program brings outstanding scholars focused on peace research to the University of Notre Dame for a semester…

Rwanda: Women at the Heart of TREPA’s Land Restoration in Rwanda’s Eastern Province

Nov 24, 2025 | Jean Claude Habimana
IUCN

In Rwanda’s Eastern Province, women and girls were limited to contributing to landscape restoration and environmental conservation, while men often took on roles such as…

South Sudan: From Silence to Strength: Women Leaders Speak Out in South Sudan

Nov 22, 2025 | Amber Christino
UN News

She knows what it’s like to be silenced.

Born into a family that didn’t believe in educating girls, she had to stay home while her brothers…

Gender is the Key to a Healthy Planet and People: Reflections from the Biodiversity-Health Press Conference at SBSTTA-27

Nov 19, 2025 | Alejandra Duarte
Women4Biodiversity

Traditional health systems, rooted in centuries of empirical knowledge, reveal the interdependence between ecosystems and human health. However, women’s ecological and health-related knowledge has often…

Kenya: How Gender-transformative Innovation Bundles are Revolutionizing Food Security in Kenya

Nov 18, 2025 | Eileen Bogweh Nchanji
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

In Makueni, Kenya, farmers are boosting yields and empowering women through new gender-transformative innovation bundles. Introduced to overcome low tech adoption, the approach merges farming…

Liberia: Women Marginalized in Customary Land Processes in Lofa Despite Legal Protections

Nov 17, 2025 | Korto D. Snowe
Liberia Daily Observer

Women in Lofa County continue to face difficulties participating equally in customary land and natural resource management. This situation, according to Chapter 9, Article 36…

Global: Building Gender-Responsive Climate Security: Inside CGIAR’s New Training Module Why Gender Matters in Climate Security?

Nov 12, 2025 | Ibukun Taiwo
CGIAR

Climate change impacts are not gender-neutral and vary across population groups. Women, children, minority groups, refugees, the elderly, and people with disabilities face differential vulnerabilities linked to…

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Environmental Peacebuilding Awards (Deadline: 30 November 2025)

Nov 11, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to present awards to leaders, practitioners, and researchers from our community.The Environmental…

Senegal/Ghana: Oxfam In Africa- Climate Justice Advocacy and Campaigns advisor

Nov 10, 2025 | Oxfam-Québec

This is a 12-month regional mandate for Oxfam in Africa based in Senegal or Ghana. The mandate is under the Equality in Action Volunteer Cooperation…

Kenya: Programme & Impact Coordinator (Green Economy)

Nov 10, 2025 | Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development

For the past 30 years, Acted has been working at the forefront of humanitarian action to save lives. Acted supports more than 27 million people…

Afghanistan: UN Trust Fund Supports Women Livestock Farmers in Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province

Nov 9, 2025 | Fidel Rahmati
The Khaama Press News Agency

The UN Afghanistan Trust Fund is helping women-headed households in Ghazni raise livestock, offering training and tools to support their livelihoods.

The UN Afghanistan Trust Fund…

The Philippines: DENR Exec Highlights Link Between Women Leaders and Environmental Protection

Nov 6, 2025 | Jonathan Mayuga
Business Mirror

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Undersecretary for Strategic Communications Marilou Erni emphasized that environmental protection and peacebuilding are deeply interconnected with women as…

UK: UK Announces Commitment to Advance Gender Equality in SA at G20

Nov 5, 2025 | Government of the United Kingdom
ReliefWeb

The UK pledges ZAR 18 million (£800,000) to South Africa’s Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) Fund. This will help more than 33,000 people through school-based…

Liberia: Nimba Women Agriculture Cooperative Launches Financial Loan Program to Empower Rural Women

Nov 4, 2025 | D. Franklin Doloquee
Front Page Africa

GANTA, Nimba County – Over twenty rural women from Ganta and its surrounding communities in Nimba County recently benefited from a new loan program launched…

Zambia: Zambian Women Take the Lead in Adapting Food Systems to Climate Change

Nov 3, 2025 | Giulia Caroli, Gracsious Maviza, Mandlenkosi Maphosa, and Rosemary Fumpa-Makano
New Security Beat

Women play vital roles as actors and innovators in food systems worldwide. In many societies, they are the primary food producers, accounting for between 60%…

Call for Applications: 2026 EnPAx Conference Fellows

Oct 27, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is seeking applicants for its Conference Fellows Program. The Conference Fellows Program provides capacity development for emerging professionals alongside financial support…

Sri Lanka: Building Resilience, One Snack at a Time: The Story of Jayasumani Sivajothi

Oct 23, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

In Karaithivu, a coastal community in Sri Lanka’s Ampara District, the sea once brought devastation to the life of Jayasumani Sivajothi. The 2004 tsunami swept…

Somalia: Land Grabbing Crisis Deepens in Mogadishu as Women and Children Bear the Brunt

Oct 21, 2025 | Dahir Alasow
Suna Times

A new wave of forced evictions and illegal land grabbing is devastating communities across Mogadishu, displacing thousands of residents — many of them women and…

Liberia: UN Women, Rural Women Leaders Rally in Harper - Push for Climate Action, Peace, and Economic Empowerment

Oct 21, 2025 | Peter P. Toe, Jr.
Front Page Africa

Harper, Maryland County — In a country where women's voices are often overshadowed, UN Women continues to stand out as one of Liberia's strongest allies…

Global: Indigenous Women and the Path to a Just Energy Transition: Voices from the Land

Oct 20, 2025 | Galina Angarova and Daniela De León
Mongabay

Key Ideas: 

The implementation of the energy transition is unfolding at the expense of biodiversity and communities — particularly Indigenous women, says Galina Angarova and Daniela…

Colombia: Putumayo’s Women Guardians Defend Land and Culture Amid Colombia’s Deforestation

Oct 15, 2025 | Natalia Arbelaez
Mongabay

In Colombia southwest, Kamëntšá and Inga Indigenous women are at the forefront of the struggle to defend their territory, which provides water to the rest…