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A last-minute speaker change resulted in IIED participating in an all-male panel (or 'manel') at the UN climate summit (Photo: Anne Schulthess)

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Missing voices: let's hear women's experience of climate change

Ethiopian women sort coffee beans at a long table. Gender equality and equity are vital components of the way IIED works (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

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Putting gender into the heart of IIED

The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)

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Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development

A woman preparing a meal in the temporary settlement in Kirtipur – an example of unpaid work (Photo: Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed)

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Cash transfers in urban crises: do they work for women?

The 2016 Bonn climate change Conference featured a workshop and numerous informal consultations on gender-responsive climate policy (Photo by IISD/ENB/Kiara Worth)

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LDC women in world climate talks: building a cohort of champions

Women discuss forest management at a Community Forest User Group meeting in Nepal. Photo: WOCAN

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Gender and REDD+

Outstanding women in development

A series of blogs and interviews that reflect on the role, influence and impact of women in the field of sustainable development More in this collection

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IIED focus on outstanding women in sustainable development

A tea picker from Cianten, within the boundaries of Mount Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, starts collecting tea leaves in a basket at 6am (Photo@ CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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Harnessing #MeToo momentum to drive climate action

Women farmers in Dodel, in Northern Senegal, take a break by the water pump (Photo: Philippine Sutz/IIED)

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Q&A: Getting women's land rights recognised

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Cash transfers during urban crises: lessons for women’s economic empowerment

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Tackling violence against women and girls in urban humanitarian crises: the case of Gaza

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Does the gender composition of forest and fishery management groups affect resource governance and conservation outcomes? A systematic map

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China in Africa – a fast changing relationship

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Genre et foncier : l’expérience des consultations juridiques gratuites au Sénégal

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Strengthening women's voices in the context of agricultural investments: Lessons from Kenya

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A tea picker from Cianten, within the boundaries of Mount Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, starts collecting tea leaves in a basket at 6am (Photo@ CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Harnessing #MeToo momentum to drive climate action

Blog, Apr 2018

Gro Harlem Brundtland, who was special envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Climate Change from 2007-10, will deliver this year's Barbara Ward Lecture (Photo: Joël Saget/AFP)

Gro Harlem Brundtland to give IIED's 2018 Barbara Ward Lecture

News, Mar 2018

Women farmers in Dodel, in Northern Senegal, take a break by the water pump (Photo: Philippine Sutz/IIED)

Q&A: Getting women's land rights recognised

Article, Mar 2018

IIED focus on outstanding women in sustainable development

News, Mar 2018

In Tanzania, former artisanal mining licensees Mwanahamisi Mzalendo and Mwanamkasi Rasi are among entreprenurial women who have pooled their resources to create a quarrying business. They control the day-to-day running of the quarry, including supervising labourers, dealing with the local authorities, and taking care of the site's environmental footprint (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)

Q&A: Women are driving the change we need

Article, Mar 2018

The 9th session of the World Urban Forum, the world's premier conference on urban issues, took place in Malaysia in February. Like many international events, there were questions about how it addressed gender (Photo: National Housing Development Authority, via Google licence)

Moving past the token 'woman' word

Blog, Mar 2018

Women in developing countries are particularly vulnerable, but are their voices sufficiently heard at major international events? (Photo: Victoria Hickman)

New IIED discussion series focuses on gender at international events

News, Jan 2018

A women's focus group is a key part of a governance assessment at Lake Mburo National Park in Uganda. It's essential that gender equality and equity is addressed in research proposals and activities (Image: IIED)

On a learning curve towards gender mainstreaming

Blog, Jan 2018

A last-minute speaker change resulted in IIED participating in an all-male panel (or 'manel') at the UN climate summit (Photo: Anne Schulthess)

Missing voices: let's hear women's experience of climate change

Blog, Dec 2017

The 2016 Bonn climate change Conference featured a workshop and numerous informal consultations on gender-responsive climate policy (Photo by IISD/ENB/Kiara Worth)

LDC women in world climate talks: building a cohort of champions

Blog, May 2017

A woman preparing a meal in the temporary settlement in Kirtipur – an example of unpaid work (Photo: Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed)

Cash transfers in urban crises: do they work for women?

Blog, Mar 2017

Achala Abeysinghe advises Giza Gaspar-Martins, the former chair of the Least Developed Countries Group, in Paris at COP21 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Women in the poorest countries lack leadership opportunities in the UN

Blog, Nov 2016