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

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

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COP15: putting gender at the heart of biodiversity governance

Philile Mbatha
24 November 2022

A series of rainbow flags outside a building.

Heteronormativity in the development sector: where are we now?

Event on 08 December 2022

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What does queer have to do with it?

Began June 2022

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Five ways to support women’s climate leadership for locally-led action

14 November 2022

Men and women stand in a ploughed field looking down at the turf.

Overcoming obstacles to women's land tenure security in Guinea

Nentébou Barry
17 October 2022

A number of women wearing brightly coloured clothes tend crops with mountains in the background.

Do women have a meaningful role in global value chains, and why does this matter?

Emma Blackmore and Rachel Ajambo
13 October 2022

People draw a map on a large piece of paper on the ground

Planning land use and access in Tanzania: women have their say

Isabella Nchimbi
06 October 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

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

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Why gender matters for biodiversity conservation

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Gender equality and informality in low-carbon transitions: a review of evidence to identify transformative outcomes

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Better farmer benefits from renewable energy: improving inclusion and uptake in Kenya

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

20691iied.pdf

Gender concerns in debt relief

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

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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

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

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Gender and intersectionality in action research

Woman speaking with a microphone to an audience of men.

Every voice counts: addressing inequality in research and development

Blog, 16 March 2022

A women wielding a hoe tends to her crops before a spectacular background of green hills

Bhutan’s climate ambition: showcasing leadership, delivering inclusive action

Blog, 08 March 2022

Four women walking through a field. One carries a bascket and logs on her back.

New project explores impacts of biodiversity loss on women and girls

News, 02 March 2022

A group of men and women wearing masks stand around a device being demonstrated by a man.

Energy enabling green development and recovery in Kitui County, Kenya

Active Project

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Towards gender equality: the digital rights of girls and women

Blog, 24 January 2022

View of a forest with a volcano in the background

2021 Barbara Ward Lecture: Rebeca Grynspan says nothing is ever so small that it cannot make a difference

Article, 16 December 2021

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Barbara Ward Lecture 2021: Rebeca Grynspan

Event on 06 December 2021

Three women and a man sit on a bench.

Women claim their space in land governance

Blog, 18 November 2021

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Rebeca Grynspan, UNCTAD secretary-general, to give Barbara Ward Lecture 2021

News, 29 October 2021

Four people sit on the floor to look at a map on the ground.

In her name: securing land tenure for women in Zambia

Blog, 14 October 2021