Livelihoods & Economic Empowerment
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National Monitoring and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals and Development Justice
Blog
Since 2012, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) has been advocating for a transformative development framework that addresses the structural causes of…
Afghanistan: Enhancing the Success of Afghanistan’s Women Farmers
International
Against the odds, a new agricultural outreach model targeting rural women is taking shape in Afghanistan – and delivering on its promise of empowerment, greater…
Myanmar: Government to Return Land to Farmers
International
Dr Soe Than, regional minister for agriculture, livestock and irrigation, said: “We’re assessing the land. It shouldn’t take long. Within this year we will be…
For Rural Afghan Women, Agriculture Holds the Potential for Better Jobs
Blog
In Afghanistan, agriculture continues to be the backbone of the rural economy – about 70% of the population in rural areas is engaged in on-farm…
Missing Voices: Let's Hear Women's Experiences of Climate Change
Blog
Attending the UN climate talks feels like a big deal. Despite having been in the climate change movement for some years, Bonn was my first…
Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue to Manage Natural Resource Competition: A Synthesis of Lessons from Uganda, Zambia, and Cambodia
Library
Rural development or natural resource management program planning and implementation frequently confront challenges of environmental resource competition and conflict, particularly where common pool resources are…
Sharing the Spoils: Gender and the Mining Industry
Briefs & Development
Who benefits when a mining boom comes to town? The global rush to extract precious resources from the ground has brought both conflict and opportunity to…
Gender and Climate Change - Thematic Issue Briefs and Training Modules
Briefs & Development
UNDP presents updated versions of 12 training modules and issue briefs on gender dimensions of climate change covering a range of themes and sectors. These…
In the Law & on the Land: Finding the Female Farmer in Myanmar's National Land Use Policy
Briefs & Development
This paper draws upon 12 months of activist research in Myanmar to examine how bureaucrats, activists, international development experts and rural women represented the female…
Women in State Building through Engaging in High Value Cash Crops in Post-Conflict Nepal: Exploring the Linkages
Briefs & Development
Nepal entered the state building process after signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2006, thus ending the decade long bloody armed conflict between the…
Introduction: Security in the Vernacular and Peacebuilding at the Margins; Rethinking Violence Reduction
Briefs & Development
This article introduces a Peacebuilding special issue on rethinking security, peacebuilding and violence reduction in the light of Sustainable Development Goal 16 on ‘promoting peaceful and inclusive…
More than Women and Men: A Framework for Gender and Intersectionality Research on Environmental Crisis and Conflict
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Over the past two decades, the important role of gender in environmental and water-related crises and conflicts has been increasingly recognized. Environmental crises occur in…
Navigating Obstacles, Opportunities and Reforms: Women’s Lives and Livelihoods in Artisanal Mining Communities in Eastern DRC
Briefs & Development
Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as in other countries, has generally been treated as a male affair. This, however, overlooks the fact…
The Narrative of Conflict Minerals: An Exploration of Sexual Gender-Based Violence and Socioeconomic Impacts of the Dodd-Frank Act in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Library
This thesis elaborates on a complex, multilayered gender perspective of mineral exports in the conflict of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The focus…
Verisk Maplecroft's Conflict Minerals Risk Analysis
Briefs & Development
Verisk Maplecroft’s conflict minerals analysis quantifies 20 political, social and environmental risk related to the production of tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold (3TG) in the…
Land Tenure in South Sudan: Does It Promote Climate Change Resilience?
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Land was a key driver of the war between Khartoum and Southern Sudan. The Khartoum government had placed the land and its resources under the…
Structural Change and Wife Abuse: A Disaggregated Study of Mineral Mining and Domestic Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1999–2013
Library
Mineral mining may be a mixed blessing for local communities. On the one hand, extractive industries can be a positive economic driver, generating considerable revenues,…
Women, Peace, and Security: Afghanistan-Pakistan Women’s Policy Brief
Library
The Pakistan-Afghan Women’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PAWFPD) was established in 2012 to enhance cross-border cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan. This initiative engages and…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Women Farmers Demonstrate Agriculture Can Recover after War
International
An aid project in Afghanistan helps enterprising women to multiply grain seeds for cropping, share vegetable seeds and breed better goats. So far the work…
Liberia: First Forest Atlas for Liberia Launched
International
The international resource organization, World Resource Institute and the Forestry Development Authority recently launched the first Forest Atlas for Liberia to promote sustainable forest management…
Afghanistan: Afghan Women Take on Farming
International
Agriculture, a central pillar of Afghanistan’s economy, has traditionally been dominated by men. Women are sometimes recruited to work the fields or tend livestock, but…
The Top-Secret Cold War Plan to Keep Soviet Hands off Middle Eastern Oil
International
On a cool summer day in London in 1951, an American CIA officer told three British oil executives about a top-secret U.S. government plan. The…
Enhancing Women's Role in Land Management Decisions
Blog
How can women's rights be strengthened when decisions are being made about large-scale agricultural investments that affect their livelihoods?
A recent IIED webinar examined how women's…
Women Pay Heavier Price for Big Dams
Blog
Large dams are displacing thousands of people in West Africa in societies where women traditionally have few legal or customary rights to the natural resources…
Can Mining Dig Rural Women Out of Poverty in Ghana?
Blog
Walking within the artisanal and small-scale mining population in Tarkwa, one of Ghana's principal mining regions, it dawns on me that the local population has…
The Role of Women in Creating Climate Resilient Communities: Focus on the Philippines
Blog
The Philippines is one of the world’s most vulnerable populations to the effects of climate change. When the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction…
Leveraging Co-benefits between Gender Equality and Climate Action for Sustainable Development: Mainstreaming Gender Considerations in Climate Change Projects
Briefs & Development
In September 2015, world leaders from 193 nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations General Assembly. While some have hailed…
Effects of Armed Conflict on Agricultural Markets and Post-Conflict Engagement of Women in Export-led Agriculture in Nepal
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Nepal entered into a new era after ending 10 years of civil war through signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the government and the…
"Just Women" Is Not Enough: Towards a Gender-Relational Approach to Water and Peacebuilding
Briefs & Development
Nepal entered into a new era after ending 10 years of civil war through signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the government and the…
Women and Sustainable Development Goals
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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…