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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

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaking the World Economic Forum in 2017 (Photo: Jakob Polacsek/World Economic Forum, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Q&A: getting indigenous women's voices heard on the SDGs

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

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A preliminary theory of change detailing how women's participation can improve the management of local forests and fisheries

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Gender considerations in the restoration of livelihoods: resettlement from hydropower

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Transforming gender relations: upscaling collective action in women’s entrepreneurship

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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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The voices of women involved in farming and fisheries, such as these in Bangladesh, are often lost in decision-making (Photo: CBFM-Fem Com Bangladesh/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management?

Blog, Jul 2015

The gender balance of the panel of special guests at the opening of IIED's 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9) attracted criticism from the institute's staff (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Gender lens: putting on the spectacles

Blog, May 2015

Ethiopian women sort coffee beans at a long table. IIED's Critical Theme will explore gender equality issues (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

Empowered women = happy planet? Gender equality in a changing environment

Article, May 2015

International experts on gender and employment participating in an IIED gender workshop in 2014 (Photo: Lucille Robinson/IIED)

Gender in the workplace: do families always have to lose out?

Blog, May 2015

A girl in Pakistan collects rainwater for washing (Photo: Fawad Khan)

Recognising the concerns of women and girls can improve the effectiveness of climate change adaptation

Blog, Jan 2015

Which is the best approach when working for sustainable energy for all? (Photo: Bernard Polet, via Flickr)

How can we finance sustainable energy for all?

Blog, Dec 2014

Temegnush Dhabi owns a two-hectare farm in central Ethiopia, growing chick peas. "I’m no longer seen as a poor widow but a successful farmer" (Photo: The Gates Foundation via Flickr)

Women's land rights and Africa's development conundrum – which way forward?

Blog, Dec 2014

The Barbara Ward Lecture signage at the British Library for the 2014 event (Photo: Julius Honnor/IIED)

Image gallery: 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture

Article, Nov 2014

Care workers in Guinea put on protective clothing (Photo: EC/ECHO)

Ebola – what must we learn?

Blog, Oct 2014

A small-scale farmer in Tanzania. Insecure rights and weak land governance are major challenges to ensuring that local landholders benefit from agricultural investments (Photo: Alun McDonald/Oxfam)

Gender, land and accountability in the context of agricultural and other natural resource investments

Project, Oct 2014

discuss the ways in which IIED has contributed to global change (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Trustee chairs in conversation: Maureen O'Neil and Rebeca Grynspan (Part III)

Article, Aug 2014

Participants in the gender and environmental change workshop discuss REDD+ (Photo: Lucile Robinson/IIED)

Making gender equality a global and local reality

Blog, May 2014