The international development news and business site Devex has launched a new campaign called Land Matters, showcasing innovative solutions to land issues and advancing a conversation that now involves smallholder farmers across Africa and other parts of the world as well as land experts, social entrepreneurs, business executives and government officials. Through September, Land Matters >> Read more
Call for Submissions: Global Water and Gender Conference
A Gender Conference will be hosted by the Water Research Commission together with the Department of Water Affairs, the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), the Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Significant growth has occurred in the awareness of gender hierarchies in water development, management and utilisation over >> Read more
Call for Articles: GFAR and New Agriculturist
GFAR is seeking many new ways to spread the value of agricultural research and innovation of all kinds and how they are helping to address development challenges. GFAR has established a collaboration with New Agriculturist a widely read and well recognized online journal, to help share your stories about how agricultural knowledge and innovation are >> Read more
Article in Foreign Policy by Melinda Gates: Bridging the Gender Gap
In a recent article on Foreign Policy's website, Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, digs into the issue of how the lives of women and girls around the world can be improved through the collection of data. She points to the UN panel's recommendation for the new set of MDGs that >> Read more
Call for Experts: IUCN Global Gender Office
Background The IUCN Global Gender Office is the institutional anchor of IUCN´s work on gender equality and women’s empowerment. The Office is based in Washington D.C. and operates at global, regional and national levels, providing technical support to institutions as diverse as multilateral development banks, United Nations agencies, the secretariats of international conventions, international development agencies, ministries of national >> Read more
Vacancy: OECD Gender Coordinator
The OECD’s mission – Better Policies for Better Lives – promotes policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. It provides a unique forum in which governments work together to share experiences on what drives economic, social and environmental change, seeking solutions to common problems. The Development Centre (DEV) >> Read more
Final Call for Learning Workshop: Gendered Access to Forest and Small Farms in Latin America
Gendered Access to Forest and Small Farms in Latin America Venue: CIAT Headquarters in Cali-Palmira, Colombia on 21-22 August 2013 Access to forestland and land tenure for small-scale farms is most often gender biased. Women and men have different access and tenure rights which in turn impact their ability to participate in sustainable management of >> Read more
New Resource from Landesa: LandWise
The Landesa Center for Women's Land Rights has just launched LandWise, a free online resource containing land-related laws, information about relevant customary practices, and explanatory materials. LandWise is an important new tool for policymakers, researchers, legal practitioners, and women's advocates working to strengthen women's land rights around the world. The site also has three recently-added Practice >> Read more
Vacancy: IDRC – Senior Program Specialist Women’s Economic Empowerment and Growth in Low-Income Countries
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is currently recruiting for a Senior Program Specialist to take the lead on the new initiative on Women’s Economic Empowerment and Growth in Low-Income Countries. This initiative is jointly supported by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and IDRC with an approximate value >> Read more
Vacancy: Senior Gender Specialist at ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development)
Title: Senior Gender Specialist Thematic Area : Livelihoods Apply Now Background The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is a regional intergovernmental learning and knowledge sharing centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Our aim is to influence policy and practices to meet >> Read more
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