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

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Putting gender centre stage

A small-scale farmer in Tanzania

Project

Protecting women’s livelihoods through gender-equitable land governance in sub-Saharan Africa

Woman with jerrycans and two donkeys.

Blog

Exploring intersectionality: what does it look like for IIED and our partners?

Women spreading fish on a drying rack

Event

Fish Night 7: Gender equality in the seafood value chain

Women collecting clean water at a water pump

Project

Strengthening the voices of women and young people in shaping local climate action

Women hoeing a field.

Case study

Building a women-led community climate movement

Barbara Ward Lectures

Lectures by the current generation of outstanding women in development, in honour of IIED's founder More in this collection

Gro Harlem Brundtland's speech was followed by a question and answer session with the audience (Photo: Julius Honnor/Contentious)

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2018 Barbara Ward Lecture: Gro Harlem Brundtland calls for people to speak out against simplistic politics of populism

Urban climate action champion Debra Roberts gave the 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture (Image: IIED)

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2016 Barbara Ward Lecture: Debra Roberts says global urbanisation strategy needs greater focus on practical implementation

Fatima Denton delivers the 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture at the British Library in London in November 2014 (Photo: Julius Honnor/IIED)

Article

2014 Barbara Ward Lecture: Fatima Denton calls for a "new paradigm" for African development

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 More in this collection

Baka women collecting non-timber forest products in Nomedjoh, Cameroon (Photo: Indra Van Gisbergen)

Blog

Biodiversity: a women’s business?

Members of Namibia's Marinefluss Conservancy hope their remote community will benefit from joint ventures with tourist enterprises (Photo: Steve Felton, WWF via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Blog

Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD

Brisetha Hendricks talking to conservancy members. As well as rhino, the Uibasen Twyfelfontein Conservancy has elephants, leopards, mountain zebras, kudu, gemsbok, ostrich, springbok, steenbok, duiker and klipspringer (Photo: Brisetha Hendricks)

Article

Q&A: Community-based natural resource management is the future

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

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

Article

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

Women using the Changu Changu Moto Fuel-Efficient Clean Cookstove, Malawi, Africa (Photo: Ripple Africa)

Blog

Technologies for sustainable development: mind the gender gap

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

Latest publications

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

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

Kitini cha sauti ya Pamoja cha Mikakati ya kuhimili mabadiliko ya tabianchi

Pamoja voices climate-resilience planning toolkit. To support inclusive climate-resilient planning for rural communities

Pamoja voices climate-resilience planning toolkit. To support inclusive climate-resilient planning for cooperatives

Understanding local climate priorities: applying a gender and generation focused planning tool in mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar

We have 85 items under Gender

A group of seated African women gather for a discussion (Photo: Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT))

Making their voices count

Long read, Sep 2019

Women pulling fishing nets through shallow water

Steering gender to the centre of the blue economy

Blog, Jun 2019

Women collecting clean water at a water pump

Strengthening the voices of women and young people in shaping local climate action

Project, May 2019

A woman harvests palm fruit in Tanzania

Local solutions to strengthen women’s voices in land governance

Article, May 2019

Participants at the 2018 European Capacity Building Initiative workshop for new negotiators from least developed countries countries (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Women in the UN climate negotiations: are we tipping the balance?

Blog, Mar 2019

A Tanzanian woman farmer displays her crop. With commercial pressures on land increasing, women farmers in Africa need support to understand, and speak up for, fair land governance (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Strengthening women’s voices in land decisions: what works?

Blog, Jan 2019

Maria Lourdes Alvarez is a warden monitoring fishing activity at Decalve Marine Sanctuary, a Marine Protected Area in the Calamianes Islands in the Philippines (Photo: Asuncion Sia/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions

Blog, Nov 2018

Baka women collecting non-timber forest products in Nomedjoh, Cameroon (Photo: Indra Van Gisbergen)

Biodiversity: a women’s business?

Blog, Nov 2018

Members of Namibia's Marinefluss Conservancy hope their remote community will benefit from joint ventures with tourist enterprises (Photo: Steve Felton, WWF via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD

Blog, Nov 2018

Brisetha Hendricks talking to conservancy members. As well as rhino, the Uibasen Twyfelfontein Conservancy has elephants, leopards, mountain zebras, kudu, gemsbok, ostrich, springbok, steenbok, duiker and klipspringer (Photo: Brisetha Hendricks)

Q&A: Community-based natural resource management is the future

Article, Nov 2018

Putul Rani and her family are members of a hilsa fish conservation group in Bangladesh that aims to help protect fish stocks (Photo: WorldFish, Creative Commons via Flickr)

IIED webinar: Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions

News, Oct 2018

Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)

Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity

Interview, Oct 2018