The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights and our partner Resource Equity are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for our Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program. Through this program we seek to cultivate a network of qualified professionals from the developing world who are strongly committed to strengthening women’s land rights >> Read more
UNIDO hiring gender expert
The Office for Gender Mainstreaming, Ethics and Accountability (ODG/GEA) of UNIDO is looking for a Gender Expert to coordinate the gender mainstreaming functions of the office. For more information, please read the TORs: UNIDO_Gender Expert vacancy The deadline to apply is 26 January 2016.
Gender and Resilience Working Group Webinar Series
Please join us Thursday, January 14 at 10am EST for the next session of the Gender & Resilience Working Group Webinar Series. This webinar is part of a series being rolled out by the Gender & Resilience Working Group, which is led by Mercy Corp and Lutheran World Relief and involves many other organizations. The >> Read more
Gender Happy Hour Twitter Chat, January 14
Gender Happy Hour Twitter Chat: January 14th (8-9pm EST). Join this virtual happy hour on Twitter to talk about Gender, Men, and Masculinities. Let’s go beyond the engaging men discussion. What issues of masculinity are neglected in international development aid? Is there a risk of crossing a line between engaging men in gender equality and perpetuating patriarchy? >> Read more
Blogpost: Gender research beyond fairy tales: we can still do more and better
Isabel Lambrecht, Associate Research Fellow at IFPRI’s office in Ghana, writes about her choice to investigate gender in agricultural technology adoption. In this blogpost for Economics that Matters, she shares some surprises from what she has learned asking the question central to her dissertation, do we get higher uptake of agricultural technologies if agricultural extension programs work with >> Read more
New publication: Gender, headship, and the life cycle: Landownership in four Asian countries
Originally posted on the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) blog Despite increasing evidence that households do not always function as one, policies regarding land and property rights are often formulated at the household level, assuming the primary adult male is the landowner. Because land policy reform has typically focused on changing household, rather >> Read more
IFPRI seminar: Are Fathers’ Gender Attitudes Associated with Child Health Outcomes? Evidence on Child Undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Please join virtually a seminar happening today, Wednesday, December 2, from 12-1pm. Instructions for GoToMeeting are below. Abstract Extant research on child well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has focused on the link between maternal characteristics and improved child health outcomes. More recently, programmatic efforts have emphasized engaging men in health promotion activities. Yet, conceptual frameworks >> Read more
Ask the expert: Dr. Agnes Quisumbing on women’s land rights
The USAID Land Tenure and Property Rights Portal recently interviewed Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI, about women's land rights. Read the interview here.
New post from EnGendering Data
How sex-disaggregated land statistics can help monitor progress of the new Sustainable Development Goals For decades feminist economists and women’s rights advocates have made the case that the lack of data on women’s land rights has limited the ability to understand how this affects food security and rural poverty. However, recent developments may help us >> Read more
What would it really take to strengthen women’s land rights?
The issue of women’s land rights for land restoration will be discussed at a high-level panel “This Land is Our Land: Gender perspectives on tenure and rights” at the Global Landscapes Forum in Paris, December 6. In preparation for that event, we have asked a number of experts: “What would it take to strengthen women’s >> Read more
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