A new volume of policy notes summarizes the findings from the project "Enhancing Women's Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change: Potential for Group-Based Approaches." From the IFPRI Research Program on Climate Change, Collective Action, and Women's Assets, the notes in this collection explore how to protect or strengthen women’s control over critical assets, including natural >> Read more
Landesa publishes women’s land rights guides & infographic on women’s land rights
View original announcement here: http://www.landesa.org/news/landesa-publishes-womens-land-rights-guides-for-development-practicioners/ The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights has created four new practice guides, which are practical resources for development practitioners, researchers, lawyers, advocates, and scholars to assess the situation for women’s land rights in three countries: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. They address both the formal legal structure and the customary framework >> Read more
New technical guide on reducing the gender asset gap through agricultural development
IFPRI has produced a new technical guide, Reducing the Gender Asset Gap through Agricultural Development. This technical guide, an output from IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP), explains the importance of assets—both tangible such as land, labor, and animals and intangible such as education, financial capital, and social networks—for development, and the wide gap that >> Read more
Monitoring and mitigating gender-based violence within non-GBV sectoral programming
CARE has just released Guidance for Gender Based Violence (GBV) Monitoring and Mitigation within Non-GBV Focused Sectoral Programming. This document aims to address the increasing demand for clear guidance on how to practically and ethically monitor and mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) within non-emergency, international development programming, in which GBV is not a specific programmatic component. >> Read more
World Bank publication on Voice and Agency available for download
The World Bank Group has released for purchase and free download its groundbreaking report Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity. The 2012 report recognized that expanding women's agency - their ability to make decisions and take advantage of opportunities is key to improving their lives as well as the world. This report >> Read more
New toolbox for gender and inclusion in climate change projects
After much anticipation, the Gender and Inclusion Toolbox: Participatory Research in Climate Change and Agriculture, presenting gender-sensitive and socially inclusive participatory action research methods, was finally launched yesterday in Nairobi via a well-attended live-streamed event! The launch coincided with the International Day of Rural Women to emphasize the need for more relevant, gender-responsive methods and tools >> Read more
New CCAFS Working Paper reveals gender gap in adaptation capacity to climate change in Africa
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) has published a new working paper, How resilient are farming households, communities, men and women to a changing climate in Africa? (PDF), that highlights the gender gap in ownership of productive land and access to agricultural support services in Sub-Saharan Africa-- both of which are critical >> Read more
New article from Melinda Gates: “Putting women and girls at the center of development”
The development field needs to be more serious about gender inequities and women’s empowerment. By ignoring gender inequities, many development projects fail to achieve their objective. And when development organizations do not focus on women’s empowerment, they neglect the fact that empowered women have the potential to transform their societies. I also review the Gates >> Read more
IFPRI Research Brief: Community-Based Legal Aid and Women’s Land Rights
Improving women’s ability to securely access land is recognized as an effective means to increase gender equality and advance other key social and economic development goals. Despite progressive laws in many African countries, gender disparities commonly persist in women’s access and ownership of land. Although legal empowerment of women can help to strengthen their claims >> Read more
New IFPRI Discussion Papers from Gender Agriculture and Assets Project (GAAP):
The Gender Agriculture and Assets Project (GAAP), jointly led by IFPRI and ILRI, has released the first set of discussion papers detailing the findings of the GAAP. Following the Project Notes , which summarized findings from all 8 projects, the Discussion Papers give more detail on specific projects in the portfolio. IFPRI Discussion Paper on the >> Read more
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