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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…
Women and Sustainable Development Goals
Library
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…
Making Women's Voices Count in Community Decision-Making on Land Investments
Library
This working paper examines options for strengthening women’s participatory rights in the face of increasing commercial pressures on land in three countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, and…
The Effects of Migration on Livelihoods, Land Management, and Vulnerability to Natural Disasters in the Harpan Watershed in Western Nepal
Briefs & Development
Migration is increasing in the middle hills of Nepal, and it has diverse consequences for the people remaining behind, their livelihoods, and the way they…
A Guide to Protection and Promotion of Women’s HLP Rights in the Gaza Strip
Library
To improve the development of best practices for strengthening community-based approaches, Norwegian Refugee Council’s Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) program in Gaza commissioned production…
Decision-Making and Joint Control Rights over Land in Rwanda
Library
This report explores and analyses community perceptions of the obstacles facing women’s participation in decision-making about jointly held land. It also examines the factors that…
Corporate Social Responsibility and Natural Resource Conflict
Briefs & Development
This book examines the possibilities and limitations of corporate social responsibility in minimising the violent conflict often associated with natural resource exploitation. Through detailed and…
Gender Equality Is Central to Effective Climate Action
News
As the nations of the world meet in Paris to address climate change, it is critical that women play a central role in these historic…
Farmers of the Future: Why Mentoring Youth and Girls Is Key to Strengthening India's Food Security
News
Researchers predict that in a decade or so, India’s population will surpass that of China. Meanwhile, according to this report, India is also losing 2,000…
Getting to the Root of Gender Equal Land Governance
Blog
While there is international agreement that we need gender equality in land ownership – achieving this in practice is more complex.
Women face a number of…
Amazon Women on the Front Lines: The Waorani
Blog
Meet the Waorani of the Ecuadorian Amazon. They are fighting for traditional life and championing alternatives to threats to their ancestral territory—one of the wildest,…
Liberia: Women Petition Senate to Pass Land Rights Bill
International
A group of women under the banner of the Women NGO Network Tuesday converged on the Capitol Building to petition the Liberian Senate to speedily…
DRC: New Scheme Seeks to Improve Tracking of DRC Minerals
International
The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is renowned for its mineral wealth, but much of that wealth is untapped, partly because of fears that mineral…
Does Gender Balance Improve Forestry and Fishery Management?
Blog
Differences in women's and men's access to, control over, and use of local natural resources shapes the way that these resources are managed. Yet women…
Empowered Women = Happy Planet? Gender Equality in a Changing Environment
Blog
Gender and women's empowerment are getting increasing attention in global discussions on climate change, sustainable development and the green economy. The international community is recognising…
Myanmar: Moving the Earth: Women Take On Land Aggressors
International
From the platinum reserves in eastern Shan State to the Shwe gas pipeline in south-western Arakan, much of Burma’s wealth lies in the earth. As…
Timor-Leste: Timor-Leste Welcomes Australia's Return of Spying Documents Seized by Asio
International
The Timor-Leste government has praised a decision by the Australian government to return documents about past spying that were at the centre of raids by…
Women On the Frontlines of Water Insecurity
Blog
Water is essential to life on earth, but we are facing a global crisis. According to a new report released by UNESCO on March 22…
Protecting & Empowering Women & Girls in Situations of Crisis & Conflict
Blog
Since the mid-1990s, there have been significant increases in the recorded number of all disasters and in deaths resulting from those disasters, especially in low-income…
Climate Change Adaptation and Population Dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean
Briefs & Development
Latin America and the Caribbean face multiple risks from a changing climate, from sea level rise to glacial melt to extreme weather and disease. Recent…
Defining Solutions, Finding Problems: Deforestation, Gender, and REDD+ in Burkina Faso
Briefs & Development
Reinvigorating Resilience: Violence Against Women, Land Rights, and the Women's Peace Movement in Myanmar
Briefs & Development
In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain…
Women’s Land Rights and Empowerment: Impact of the Land Tenure Regularization Reform (LTR) on Contraceptive Use and Domestic Violence in Rwanda
Library
The Rwandan Land Tenure Regularization reform (LTR) was implemented in 2007 to clarify land ownership in the country especially for women. Specifically, the reform enabled…
Gender, Natural Resources, and Peacebuilding in Kenya and Nepal
Briefs & Development
For approximately the past two decades, a large and growing body of both acamedic and grey literature from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or international agencies has…
Land Tenure in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges, Opportunities and Way Forward
Library
This Publication presents the readings of a review of land tenure security issues in fifteen (15) selected countries across Asia and the Paci c region.…
Women and Climate Change: Impact and Agency in Human Rights, Security, and Economic Development
Library
This report comes at an important time of international observance when new commitments to action will be made, coinciding not only with the fifteenth anniversaries…
Women's Land Rights and Africa's Development Conundrum- Which Way Forward?
Blog
How can African countries use land policies to ensure agricultural development and inclusive growth? Particularly in countries which are dominated by patriarchal land ownership systems?…
Alina Saba of Nepal and Agnes Kinaka of Papua New Guinea Reflect on Their Participation in the UN Climate Summit
Blog
In addition to the 120 Heads of State who attended the UN Climate Summit in September, 38 civil society representatives were selected by their peers…
World: Official Urges Greater Action To Combat Sexual Violence
International
UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura has said in spite of unprecedented political momentum to fight rape in war zones.
It says…
China/Japan: Pacific Rim Deal Could Reduce Chance of Unintended Conflict in Contested Seas
International
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A naval code of conduct approved by more than 20 nations around the Pacific, including China, Japan and the United States, could…