Gender blogs
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Steering gender to the centre of the blue economy
6 June 2019This year World Oceans Day (8 June) focuses on promoting gender equality in all ocean-related activities. Eugenia Merayo looks at the challenges women face – and says a sustainable blue economy must involve the active representation and participation of both women and men at all levels
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Women in the UN climate negotiations: are we tipping the balance?
7 March 2019Ahead of International Women’s Day, Brianna Craft and Samantha McCraine take a closer look at how well women are represented in spaces where international decisions on climate change are made
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Strengthening women’s voices in land decisions: what works?
31 January 2019Philippine Sutz draws together key lessons from Ghana and Tanzania on how to get women’s voices heard in local land governance
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Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions
29 November 2018Gender is fundamental to IIED’s mission, with our research – aiming, as a minimum, to be gender aware and sensitive. But what progress towards achieving gender equality has been made in the area of biodiversity conservation? A recent IIED webinar discussed the question.
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Biodiversity: a women’s business?
29 November 2018Women are among the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the world. What role do their burgeoning forest and farm businesses play in safeguarding biodiversity?
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Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD
20 November 2018Dilys Roe explains why international efforts to manage the world’s wildlife sustainably need input from the ground
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Food, sisterhood and dreams
16 October 2018On World Food Day, Nicole Szucs reports back from a dialogue on increasing dietary diversity and local food systems in Bolivia, and highlights a new video showing how women play a vital role in the food cycle, from production to consumption
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The role, influence and impact of women in biodiversity conservation
9 October 2018Guest blogger Cristiana Pașca Palmer asks: “How do we empower women, as agents of change and frontrunners, to build new pathways or accelerate transition to sustainability?”
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Technologies for sustainable development: mind the gender gap
30 April 2018New technologies are advancing sustainable development in Malawi. But these technologies must be designed to meet the needs of the group most likely to use them: women
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Harnessing #MeToo momentum to drive climate action
9 April 2018Guest blogger Christiana Figueres calls upon women and girls across the world to channel the energy behind the #MeToo movement to bolster the global fight against climate change
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Moving past the token 'woman' word
7 March 2018Does having women speakers and representation influence international events' overall focus on gender, and will having a woman at the top of UN-Habitat change how gender is considered in the agency's activities? Or do we still have further to go in integrating gender into events?
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On a learning curve towards gender mainstreaming
25 January 2018From the inside out, IIED is taking measures to integrate gender equality into every aspect of our work. Rosalind Goodrich and Morgan Williams report back on institutional learning so far
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Missing voices: let's hear women's experience of climate change
6 December 2017There was plenty of discussion at the global climate talks about how working directly with women in the global South is essential. But when it came to listening, those very voices were marginalised
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LDC women in world climate talks: building a cohort of champions
2 May 2017The Least Developed Countries Group will be at the table when next week's UN climate conference plans how to step up its 'gender agenda'.
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Cash transfers in urban crises: do they work for women?
8 March 2017Twenty months on from the earthquakes in Nepal, new research will examine whether cash transfers are helping women to participate in, and contribute to, the Kathmandu Valley's local economy
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Women in the poorest countries lack leadership opportunities in the UN
12 November 2016Achala Abeysinghe walked out of an event after challenging the lack of women among 17 male speakers. The legal expert highlights why women's leadership is needed in global climate change negotiations
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Monitoring and evaluation in a local context
18 July 2016Assessing how climate change adaptation and development investments can strengthen local people's resilience to climate extremes
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Enhancing women's role in land management decisions
24 March 2016Large-scale agricultural investments impact upon men and women in different ways, yet women's voices and interests are not always heard in decisions about land. An IIED webinar examined how this could be changed
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Can mining dig rural women out of poverty in Ghana?
8 March 2016An IIED dialogue with small-scale mining communities discovered women see mining as a source of hope – but that their dreams are seldom realised
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Women pay heavier price for big dams
8 March 2016On International Women's Day, we look at how relocating to make way for big dams in West Africa has particular impacts on women
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What women want
29 February 2016What would women in sub-Saharan Africa propose this leap year? IIED's legal tools team asked what women would like to happen when their communities are affected by land deals
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Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development
2 February 2016Is women's empowerment just the 'right thing to do'? A new book argues that there are deeper connections between gender equality and genuinely sustainable development
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Getting to the root of gender equal land governance
23 September 2015A workshop in Senegal revealed that issues over equal access to land for men and women may not be as simple as they at first seem
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Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management?
2 July 2015A new project aims to map the evidence on gender, natural resource governance and biodiversity conservation. And we're looking for your help
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Gender lens: putting on the spectacles
26 May 2015As part of IIED's gender review and audit, Kate Lines asks if other organisations have advice or suggestions on improvements that we can make