Gender

We aim to analyse and integrate gender equality issues in all our activities, and to engage with and contribute to emerging debates on gender equality and intersectionality

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Women's land rights

Climate change adaptation

Woman speaking with a microphone to an audience of men.

Every voice counts: addressing inequality in research and development

Tracy Kajumba and Marina Mayer
16 March 2022

A young woman sits working at a sewing machine in a corner of a room.

Stitching with determination: stories of women garment workers in Indore, India

07 June 2022

Women with their backs to the camera bind together bamboo panels and lean them against a wall

Strengthening women’s leadership for climate action

February 2022 - November 2022

Tea plantation with many people carrying baskets on their backs.

Legal empowerment with a gender lens: how women tea farmers in Malawi are claiming their rights

Kumvana Mlumbe Mtukule
25 August 2022

A man wearing a mask hands a bag to an older woman, who is standing in the doorway of a house.

Top 20 downloaded papers in the journal Environment and Urbanization

David Satterthwaite
18 August 2022

Group of women sit on the floor and raise their hands up.

How women leaders are getting better social protection for the vulnerable

Ritu Bharadwaj and Daljeet Kaur
05 July 2022

Closely built shacks. In the background, trees. In the foreground, a river and, on the other side of it, smoke.

Introduction to urban health equity: addressing risks, promoting gender equality and fostering wellbeing in informal settings

09 June 2022

A young woman sits working at a sewing machine in a corner of a room.

Stitching with determination: stories of women garment workers in Indore, India

07 June 2022

Prema Gopalan stands centre stage in an orange sari. Two men present her with a certificate; two others stand behind and applaud.

Prema Gopalan remembered

23 May 2022

Women with their backs to the camera bind together bamboo panels and lean them against a wall

Strengthening women’s leadership for climate action

February 2022 - November 2022

Two women walk along a ridge alongside an expanse of water.

Why women are footing the bill for climate: lessons from Bangladesh

Event on 19 May 2022

Related collections

Learn more about focused areas of IIED's gender work

Barbara Ward Lectures

A series of lectures by the current generation of outstanding women in development, in honour of IIED's founder

Women champions of biodiversity

A series of blogs and interviews illustrating the role, influence and impact of women working to safeguard the world’s biodiversity

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

Publications

View more Gender publications

21061x.pdf

Women, girls and biodiversity loss: an evidence and policy review

20691iied.pdf

Gender concerns in debt relief

20681X.pdf

Constraints for adopting climate-smart agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Southeast Kenya

20456IIED.pdf

Gender sensitive social protection in the face of climate risk. A study in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh, India

20336IIED.pdf

Why simple solutions won’t secure African women’s land rights

20331iied.pdf

Routes to change: rural women’s voices in land, climate and market governance in sub-Saharan Africa

20036IIED.pdf

Gender and intersectionality in action research

16683IIED.pdf

Promoting women’s influence in their food systems. Women's influence within food systems outcomes in the Sustainable Diets for All programme

G03892.pdf

Secure and equitable land rights in the Post–2015 Agenda – A key issue in the future we want

6347IIED.pdf

Women's Participation in Watershed Development in India

Tea plantation with many people carrying baskets on their backs.

Legal empowerment with a gender lens: how women tea farmers in Malawi are claiming their rights

Blog, 25 August 2022

A man wearing a mask hands a bag to an older woman, who is standing in the doorway of a house.

Top 20 downloaded papers in the journal Environment and Urbanization

Blog, 18 August 2022

Group of women sit on the floor and raise their hands up.

How women leaders are getting better social protection for the vulnerable

Blog, 05 July 2022

Closely built shacks. In the background, trees. In the foreground, a river and, on the other side of it, smoke.

Introduction to urban health equity: addressing risks, promoting gender equality and fostering wellbeing in informal settings

Article, 09 June 2022

A young woman sits working at a sewing machine in a corner of a room.

Stitching with determination: stories of women garment workers in Indore, India

Article, 07 June 2022

Prema Gopalan stands centre stage in an orange sari. Two men present her with a certificate; two others stand behind and applaud.

Prema Gopalan remembered

News, 23 May 2022

Women with their backs to the camera bind together bamboo panels and lean them against a wall

Strengthening women’s leadership for climate action

Active Project

Two women walk along a ridge alongside an expanse of water.

Why women are footing the bill for climate: lessons from Bangladesh

Event on 19 May 2022

A group of woman wearing bright clothes and masks huddle under umbrellas, with a flooded river behind.

Climate change, migration and vulnerability to trafficking

Event on 25 May 2022

Six women in a line bend over soil and crops amid a dusty atmosphere

Delivering impact: supporting women's voices in Ghana

Article, 03 May 2022