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South Sudan: UNMISS Strengthens Capacity of Women-Led Organizations to Combat Climate Shocks
International
Every year, communities across South Sudan are devastated by severe flooding, due to climate change and inadequate infrastructure to cope with the impact. Those most…
How CIMMYT is Advancing Women-centered Agriculture in Africa
Blog
Across Africa, women play a central role in producing food, managing farms, and sustaining household nutrition and incomes. Yet their contributions are still too often…
Emphasize Gender Equality in Water Management Elsewhere
Blog
Only three per cent of the world’s water is freshwater. However, 2.5 per cent of all the world’s water is locked in glaciers, ice-capped polar…
Uganda: How Women are Still Walking Miles for Water and Paying the Price
International
In the vast, sun-scorched plains of Uganda’s northeastern region of Karamoja, the search for water begins before the day has properly broken. In scattered homesteads…
Coping with Climate Change: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Irrigation Technology Outcomes in Gujarat, India
Library
Previous research on climate change interventions highlights that adaptation and mitigation strategies must be tailored to local contexts to effectively benefit both people and the…
Latin America: From the Amazon to Mesoamerica - Women, Science, and Policy are Shaping Resilient Agri-food Systems in Latin America
International
Across Latin America, the transformation of agri-food systems is being driven by a powerful convergence: science, public policy, and the leadership of women farmers and…
The Kenyan Kalaazar Caregivers Holding the Line Against a Deadly Disease That Chooses No Tribe and No Child
Spotlight
March 2026, West Pokot: For three days, the rain has fallen without pause. The road leading to Sigor Subcounty Hospital, usually a lifeline for families…
Uganda: Alupo Launches African Pastoralist Women Network to Boost Land Rights
International
Vice President Jessica Alupo has officially launched the African Pastoralist Women Network (ARPWN) and a Learning Centre aimed at advancing gender justice, climate resilience, and…
Kenya & Ethiopia: When Women Intervene: The Quiet Peacebuilders of South Omo
International
How do you build peace in a place where climate change is making it harder to find water and grazing land? Where communities have lived…
Brazil: Landless Women Mobilize for Agrarian Reform and Against Violence by Brazil
International
This year’s National Day of Landless Women’s Struggles began on March 8 and runs until next Thursday, the 12th, with mobilizations in all regions of…
Why Women Are Central to Resilient Food Systems
Blog
As climate change, economic instability, and biodiversity loss place increasing pressure on global food systems, building resilience has become an urgent priority. But resilience is…
Uganda: Women Are Leading Uganda’s Environmental Transformation - Are We Supporting Them Enough?
International
As Uganda joins the rest of the world to mark International Women’s Day 2026 under the theme “Give to Gain”, we must look beyond celebration…
Environmental Justice through Gender-Sensitive Debt-for-Nature Swaps in the Caribbean: An SDG Policy Perspective
Library
In an era of climate crises and debt burdens, debt-for-nature swaps offer debt relief in exchange for environmental conservation, holding promise for Caribbean small island…
Free Bodies, Free Territories: Reflections on the Right to Land, Water and Territories for Gender and Sexually Diverse People in Rural Contexts
Blog
How can land and agrarian reform create safe spaces for the LGBTQIA+ community? What does it mean to struggle for recognition and rights to land,…
L'Adaptation au Changement Climatique : Vers une Transformation Structurelle du Secteur de L'Aide Internationale
Library
If current trends continue, the world is on course for a temperature increase of almost +2.9°C by the end of the century, resulting in more…
'Still Struggling with the Commons': An Overview of Progress & Problems Securing Community Lands in Africa (Brief No. 08 of "Transforming Conservation: From Conflicts to Justice" Series)
Briefs & Development
This Brief provides main findings from a study of all land and resource laws in force in Africa in 2025 to assess the legal status…
Integrated Assessment of Climate-Related Security Risks for Peace and Security in Blue Nile, Sudan, and Their Gender Dimensions
Library
The Blue Nile State in Sudan is grappling with a severe and escalating crisis, marked by an intensifying conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)…
Conflicts and Trends to Watch in 2026
Report
Entering 2026, the global security landscape is defined by record-high levels of armed conflict, democratic backsliding, geopolitical fragmentation, and an accelerating climate crisis—dynamics unfolding alongside…
Why Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Belong in Climate Action
Blog
A conversation with Ipas research expert Sally Dijkerman on why climate action must include sexual and reproductive health and rights, and what it will take…
Gendered Dimensions of Climate-Related Security Risks in the OSCE Area
Report
This report examines how climate change is exacerbating security risks across the OSCE region through gendered and intersectional pathways. Drawing on policy mapping and stakeholder…
Reimagining the UN’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda: Climate Resilience and Women’s Peacebuilding in Lake Chad
Blog
As Lake Chad’s waters shrink and droughts intensify, pastoralists and farmers clash over the remaining oases. Amid this crisis, rural women – farmers, water-keepers, and…
The Duty to Cooperate in Addressing the Adverse Impact of Environmental Chronic Emergencies: Ensuring Gender-Sensitive Responses (chapter in "Gendering International Legal Responses to Environmental Chronic Emergencies")
Library
This chapter examines the content and scope of States’ duty to cooperate in responding to the gendered effects of ECEs by exploring various forms of…
Herder-Related Violence, Labor Allocation, and the Gendered Response of Agricultural Households
Library
Violent conflict between nomadic herders and settled agricultural communities in Nigeria occurs as both groups clash over the use of land and natural resources, in…
Gender Responsive Climate Security Assessment for Sri Lanka
Library
Commissioned by the UNDP–DPPA Joint Programme and UN Women with the support from the Government of Australia, and conducted by adelphi research, this pioneering assessment…
Pacific Islands: Climate Security in the Pacific: Emerging Trends, Priorities, and Solutions
International
Pacific Island countries are among those most affected by climate change. Rising sea levels, shifting rainfall patterns and increasing extreme weather events threaten land, livelihoods…
Call for Proposal: Gender, Climate, and Social Cohesion
Announcement
Given Afghanistan's increased climate vulnerability and the dispropotionate impact on women anand girls, this CfP aims to (1) leverage media platforms (TV, radio, digital initiatives)…
When the Smoke Clears: How Hybrid Warfare Exploits Gender Vulnerabilities in Climate Disasters
Spotlight
The hurricane passes. The wildfire is contained. The flood waters recede. Then the real fight begins.
We are beginning to understand how the vulnerabilities exposed in…
Mali: Combating Climate Change for Peace in Mali
International
Mali is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change in the world. Between 1970 and 2020, the country experienced at least 40 major…
Climate Justice in Action: Activism and Adaptation in Eastern Africa
Library
Eastern Africa is one of the most climate vulnerable regions of the world, and this book is the first to highlight the direct action and…
Brief: Gender-Responsive Action for Women's Food Security and Nutrition in Asia and the Pacific
Briefs & Development
In 2018, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women recognized the impacts of climate change in undermining food security for women, noting that…