Gender blogs
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Women claim their space in land governance
18 November 2021Guest blogger Megan Huth details how USAID is employing a novel approach to ensure that rural women participate in decisions about land and natural resource use in Liberia
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In her name: securing land tenure for women in Zambia
15 October 2021Gender expert Thais Bessa describes how inclusive technology, a gender-responsive documentation process and shifting gender norms are empowering women through secure land rights
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Mining cobalt better
29 September 2021While the post-COVID-19 world looks at ‘building back better’, little has changed for artisanal cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over the last 12 months, IIED’s research in partnership with Afrewatch DRC has found nascent efforts to improve the sector to be at risk of creating “islands of responsibility” while failing to drive the broad based societal and environmental change envisaged by the ‘building back better’ agenda
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Integrating gender and intersectionality in social protection programmes
7 September 2021Reflecting on recent IIED research examining the impact of COVID-19 on women in India, Tracy Kajumba and Ritu Bharadwaj explain why gender and intersectionality must be embedded in social protection programmes
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Zambia’s chiefs champion gender equality in land and natural resource governance
6 September 2021Guest blogger Zenebech Mesfin describes the efforts of Zambian traditional leaders to promote gender equality in the management of land and natural resources at the national level
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Traditional leaders in Zambia shift gender norms and strengthen women’s land rights
1 July 2021Guest blogger Patricia Malasha describes how community-level dialogues uprooted harmful gender norms that hinder women’s rights to land
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What women want – part two: to map vulnerability to climate change
11 June 2021Guest blogger Sheela Patel continues her discussion of the priorities and needs of women living in informal settlements and tenements, highlighted by COVID-19. In this blog, she explains why women are ideally placed to map vulnerability to climate change in their community and city
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Study shows how training is shaping women’s awareness of their land rights
27 May 2021A recent study of two Senegalese villages showed how training women on land access is helping them claim their land rights. But disparities in results between locations and the use of customary practices as the preferred way of accessing land highlighted that CSOs’ strategies and approaches need to reflect local realities, and ensure women from different groups and geographies also benefit
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Putting gender, intersectionality and social justice at the centre of transformative responses to climate change
19 May 2021Twenty-five years after the landmark UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, gender equality has not been achieved anywhere. Tracy Kajumba and Clare Shakya reflect that if we want to transform society, we need a radical new approach, starting with the way we respond to climate change
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What women want – part one
18 May 2021Guest blogger Sheela Patel discusses how COVID-19 has highlighted the priorities and most pressing needs of women living in informal settlements and tenements
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Assessing progress – putting IIED’s gender research ambitions into practice
23 April 2021Giulia Nicolini reflects on recent work to assess IIED’s progress towards embedding gender and intersectionality in our research
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What role do local governance frameworks play in strengthening women’s voices in land governance?
8 March 2021Across East and West Africa, IIED and partners have been developing and testing approaches to strengthen women’s voices in local land governance. Philippine Sutz reflects on the role and impact of local governance frameworks as these approaches are implemented in different contexts
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Ensuring women’s participation in land governance: “bringing the law home” in Tanzania
20 January 2021Despite Tanzania’s progressive legal framework on land rights and governance, many women are often left out of community decision-making due to social and cultural norms that persist in some areas of the country. Isabella Nchimbi discusses a participatory initiative in Tanzania that’s helping women make their voices heard when it comes to land governance
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Exploring intersectionality: what does it look like for IIED and our partners?
6 January 2021A recent learning lunch at IIED prompted Rosalind Goodrich to reflect on how we and our partners understand and address complex and interconnected inequalities in our research and beyond
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Can promotion groups help strengthen women’s access and control over land?
24 November 2020In Senegal, women’s ‘promotion groups’ have traditionally been vehicles for helping women share resources, ideas and experiences to increase income. But they are also – somewhat expectedly – enabling women to access and control land, although with limitations. Guest blogger Ibrahima Dia discusses
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Blog series probes principles: what works for women’s land rights?
15 October 2020A new blog series featuring voices from East and West Africa will take a closer look at a set of principles we think strengthens women’s land rights. Here, IIED’s Philippine Sutz tells us what to expect
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Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
3 September 2020On 9 September 2020, IIED and ICCCAD are hosting a webinar on climate-related loss and damage in the least developed countries. Ineza Umuhoza Grace reports on how climate change is impacting Rwanda
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Sustaining coffee producers’ agency in the context of COVID-19
4 August 2020Vava Coffee is social enterprise seeking to create positive social and economic change in Kenya’s coffee industry, the implications of COVID-19 and possible solutions for sustaining progress
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‘Building back better’ means ‘building back fairer’ after COVID-19
31 July 2020Karen Wong and Shahrin Mannan draw together insights from grassroots networks on moving towards a fairer world post-COVID-19
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New narratives for a 'new normal'
22 July 2020Sheela Patel and Suranjana Gupta say the effective responses to coronavirus being generated by women at the grassroots emphasises the importance of including them in climate change planning
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Tackling gender inequality to promote inclusion and justice in society
6 July 2020Tackling increasing inequalities in society is a complex and sensitive process but is a key part of IIED's institutional strategy. Reducing gender inequality is just one aspect. Rosalind Goodrich reports on recent progress to integrate this into our work
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Empowering women and youth for transformative climate and environment justice
14 May 2020At the beginning of March, Tracy Kajumba was a panellist at the OECD Global Forum on Environment. Here she reflects further on how women and youth can be enabled to strengthen environmental justice
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Supporting more than equal numbers in international climate debates
8 March 2020For International Women’s Day, Brianna Craft and Samantha McCraine detail efforts to bring more women to the UN climate change negotiations
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Women ally with nature to adapt to climate change
6 March 2020To mark International Women’s Day 2020, IIED is profiling seven women in Chile, China and South Africa working to protect and restore nature, promote a more sustainable use of natural resources and adapt to climate change
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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