International Institute for Environment and Development

Advancing gender justice in biodiversity data and policy through women-led data collection and evidence generation

Through this collaboration with the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) Women’s Caucus, we seek to address these gaps by supporting women’s organisations to generate their own evidence, tell ...
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DENR exec highlights link between women leaders and environmental protection

Undersecretary for Strategic Communications Marilou Erni emphasized that environmental protection and peacebuilding are deeply interconnected with women as leaders and catalysts of transformation.
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for Achieving Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women"

In accordance with its multi-year programme of work for 2002-2006, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will review the thematic issue of “Enhanced participation of women in development: An ...
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WWF welcomes the official recognition of the Gender & Environment Group in the DRC

The Ministerial Decree establishing creation, organization and operation of the Gender and Environment Group within the Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development was ...
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Deepti Chatti brings new lens to development and empowerment

Indian American scholar focuses on how empowerment is subjectively experienced by the intended beneficiaries in India ...
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Gender and the Environment: Traps and Opportunities

A growing debate about gender and the environment highlights women's roles in the use and management of natural resources, opening up important opportunities for development analysis and action. But ...
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Gender Equality and Sustainable Urbanisation

Download the fact sheet in PDF Format (854 K). If you do not have Adobe PDF Reader installed, click here to download the free software. The global challenge in an increasingly urban world is to ensure ...
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Critical gender studies and international development studies: interdisciplinarity, intellectual agility and inclusion

Critical gender studies and international development studies are both interdisciplinary, but intellectual agility can ensure they are inclusive sites of knowledge production. To develop intellectual ...
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Gender, Post/coloniality and Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions

This course is available on the MPhil/PhD in Gender, MSc in Culture, Justice, and Environment, MSc in Development Management (Political Economy), MSc in Development Management (Political Economy) (LSE ...
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Gender and the environment, Djibouti

Djibouti shelters about 22,000 refugees of primarily Somali origin. Climatic and soil conditions around the Ali Adde and Holl Holl camps are harsh, being dry and desert-like. Water shortages limit ...
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Environmental degradation can drive gender-based violence, study finds

The increasing destruction of the environment is fueling a rise in violence against women, a new study has found. According to the report, authored by the International Union for Conservation of ...