Items tagged:
Gender audit
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Putting gender, intersectionality and social justice at the centre of transformative responses to climate change
Twenty-five years after the landmark UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, gender equality has not been achieved anywhere. Tracy Kajumba and Clare Shakya reflect that if we want to transform society, we need a radical new approach, starting with the way we respond to climate change
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Assessing progress – putting IIED’s gender research ambitions into practice
Giulia Nicolini reflects on recent work to assess IIED’s progress towards embedding gender and intersectionality in our research
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Webinar: Gender inequalities in social protection – people, households and climate adaptation
IIED hosted an online discussion on the role of social protection schemes and how they can incorporate climate-resilience objectives and respond to the different needs of women and men
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IIED webinar: Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions
This webinar on 13 November 2018 discussed promoting gender in the context of conservation policy and practice
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IIED focus on outstanding women in sustainable development
To mark International Women's Day, IIED has launched a series of blogs and interviews that reflect on the role, influence and impact of women in the field of sustainable development
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Q&A: Women are driving the change we need
Fatima Denton describes how women's voices are becoming more prominent in policy circles but why more work is needed for this change to make a real difference to women on the ground
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Moving past the token 'woman' word
Does having women speakers and representation influence international events' overall focus on gender, and will having a woman at the top of UN-Habitat change how gender is considered in the agency's activities? Or do we still have further to go in integrating gender into events?
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New IIED discussion series focuses on gender at international events
A new series of discussion seminars organised by IIED will examine how issues of gender are addressed at major international conferences.
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On a learning curve towards gender mainstreaming
From the inside out, IIED is taking measures to integrate gender equality into every aspect of our work. Rosalind Goodrich and Morgan Williams report back on institutional learning so far
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Putting gender centre stage
IIED's mission is to build a fairer, more sustainable world using evidence, action and influence in partnership with others. But without gender equality and gender equity, there can be no social justice or sustainable development
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Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development
Is women's empowerment just the 'right thing to do'? A new book argues that there are deeper connections between gender equality and genuinely sustainable development
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Gender lens: putting on the spectacles
As part of IIED's gender review and audit, Kate Lines asks if other organisations have advice or suggestions on improvements that we can make
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Empowered women = happy planet? Gender equality in a changing environment
IIED's May Critical Theme seminar explored challenging questions on gender equality, women's empowerment and environmental change.
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Gender in the workplace: do families always have to lose out?
This year International Day of Families is focusing on gender equality. As IIED embarks on our own gender audit, Isilda Nhantumbo looks at the importance of gender and family roles within the workplace
