CRP DS releases Photo Story on Women and Gender in Drylands
To mark the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems is stepping it for women to raise awareness about their roles and recognize their invaluable...
View ArticleEmpower Women takes part in new campaigns for empowerment
With the launch of their new website, Empower Women has recently taken a fresh approach at raising awareness about women's challenges and their potential to succeed. Last week, Empower Women launched...
View ArticleReframing Leadership for Gender Equality Course
WOCAN invites you to participate in the 'Reframing Leadership for Gender Equality’ course, to be held in Bangkok from 18-22 July 2016. WOCAN has developed this powerful and effective course based...
View ArticleLakshmi Puri calls Civil Society to take advantage of paradigm shift offered...
Bogota, Colombia - On the occasion of the Gender Working Group event on 27 April during International Civil Society Week, UN Women Deputy Executive Director Lakshmi Puri gave the following remarks,...
View ArticleA delegation of the WFO Women Committee met local farmers in Zambia
Agriculture remains the key priority sector in the growth and poverty reduction agenda of Zambia. Over 60 percent of the population derives its livelihood from agriculture. Zambia is currently...
View ArticleCatch up on what you missed on Gender in Agriculture
The CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network has put together a new round-up of gender and agriculture related news including stories from across the CGIAR Centers and other partners. Check out...
View ArticleIDS Gender and Sexuality Research and Knowledge Cluster update June 2016
The Gender and Sexuality Research and Knowledge Cluster of the Institute of Development Studies has released an e-update with news on the Cluster's work and responses to current development issues....
View ArticleAt WHS, participants vow to put women and girls at centre of decision-making
The first-ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) drew to a close on 24 May, after two days of historic discussions among global leaders from 173 countries, focused on how to respond more effectively and...
View ArticleJoin the Conversation on Rural Women's Economic Empowerment
Through a partnership between UN Women, FAO, IFAD and WFP, the Joint Programme on “Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women,” (RWEE) creates a space for gender...
View ArticleCGIAR Gender launches working paper on indicators of gendered control over...
CGIAR Gender has launched a working paper on "Indicators of gendered control over agricultural resources: a guide for agricultural policy and research". This paper aims to guide the development of new...
View ArticleFast Forwarding to the Future We Want - with UN Women
UN Women has released its Annual Report for 2015-2016, which marks UN Women's fifth year. The Annual Report documents UN Women’s work to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality around the world....
View ArticleWebinar: Indicators of gendered control over agricultural resources - a guide...
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Time: 09:30 a.m. EST Background Women are farmers and agricultural laborers in every part of the world. They are often responsible for the storage and processing of...
View ArticleGAF 101: A Training Workshop on Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Gender work is vital to fisheries and aquaculture, but there is often a gap in understanding of what gender and gender research are. Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries of the Asian Fisheries Society...
View ArticleGet Involved: Help develop ICSF's Gender Implementation Guide
The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) would like you to get involved in the review and validation of an upcoming Implementation Guide on gender equality in the small-scale...
View ArticleCGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network invites you to its Annual...
Science-based innovation is at the heart of CGIAR’s vision of its impact on poverty reduction, food security and climate-smart resource management. Impactful innovation needs to be socially inclusive...
View ArticleNew Round-up is out--Check out what's new from CGIAR Gender!
The CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network has put together a new round-up of gender and agriculture related news including stories from across the CGIAR Centers and other partners. Check out...
View ArticleConcept Note for GAP Webinar on Closing the gender data gap for agricultural...
The purpose of this webinar is to discuss the main contributions of key on-going initiatives to mainstream sex-disaggregated data and gender indicators in agriculture in national censuses and surveys,...
View ArticleAnnouncing first in a series of GAP Webinars!
"Not having data on a certain area, behaviour or society means that you cannot design the right policies, you cannot track progress, you cannot evaluate. You are basically not accountable." Mayra...
View ArticleCGIAR Gender hosts Webinar on Data Sharing
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2016 Time: 08:30 a.m. UTC +5 The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) provides support on communications, data and information management to the CGIAR...
View ArticleFirst report by High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment outlines...
New York—On 22 September, the High-Level Panel (HLP) for Women’s Economic Empowerment presented its first findings to the UN Secretary-General at an event in New York, held in the context of the UN...
View ArticleREPORT OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL’S HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON WOMEN’S ECONOMIC...
Presented on 22 September 2016 by the High-Level Panel (HLP) for Women’s Economic Empowerment today in the context of the UN General Assembly, the report, entitled "LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND - A Call to...
View ArticleJoin the #CGIARGoals Q&A Twitter Chat
This year, CGIAR are combining the outreach campaigns for World Food Day (16 Oct) and Prize (13 Oct), and the International Day of Rural Women (15 Oct) and Eradication of Poverty (17 Oct). You are...
View ArticleCRP Drylands celebrates International Day of Rural Women
To mark the upcoming International Day of Rural Women on 15th October, the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems has released a special update including: Key Gender Research Studies and Highlights...
View ArticleLima to Marrakech – what is Africa’s next step in climate change and gender...
The Africa Working Group on Gender and Climate Change (AGWWCC) is a pioneering initiative to integrate gender concerns into the African position on climate change. A number of African countries have...
View ArticleHow can we help promote gender-inclusive climate change policies in Latin...
Climate change impacts are gender-differentiated; consequently, climate change policies should be, as well. This is particularly critical in Latin America, where National Adaptation Plans (NAPs),...
View ArticleWEDO determined to deliver gender-just climate action
The results of the US presidential election came in as WEDO is in the midst of climate negotiations at COP 22 in Marrakech. WEDO is at the negotiations advocating for ambitious action on climate change...
View ArticleStep It Up Together with Rural Women to End Hunger and Poverty
The 2030 Agenda envisages a future in which no one is left behind and poverty and hunger are eradicated in all their forms. Gender equality and women's empowerment are at the centre of the 2030 Agenda...
View ArticleAgrilinks launches discussion: How Can We Enhance Gender Equality in...
As part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, Agrilinks is asking its community to weigh in on what needs to be done to enhance gender equality in agriculture. According...
View ArticleFAO event aims to unleash potential of rural women
Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls lies at the centre of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In addition to the targets for SDG5 “Achieve gender equality and empower all...
View ArticleBuilding on gender promise, Guterres names three women to top UN posts
The United Nations Secretary-General-designate, António Guterrestoday announced that he will be appointing Amina J. Mohammed of Nigeria as the UN deputy chief, on his assumption of office as the ninth...
View ArticleStrategy for Inclusion and Visibility of Indigenous Women
This strategy crystalizes UN Women’s long-standing commitment to indigenous women. It serves as the organization’s first official frame of reference for bringing UN Women’s programming to scale in a...
View ArticleWomen central to the global fishing industry
According to Professor Siri Gerrard, little has been said about gender and gender perspectives in relation to the fishing industry in Norway the past fifteen years. She has studied fishing and the...
View ArticleRoundup for International Women’s Day: GLF's Top 5 Articles on Gender
The statistics on the matter are stark: women do the majority of the world’s work, but only 20% of landholders are women. Un- and underemployment both hit women harder, and the wage gap persists....
View ArticleFinal report of the UN High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General established the High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment to bring together leaders from different constituencies—government, civil society, business...
View ArticleGender justice and food security in India: A review
There is ample evidence to suggest a strong correlation between gender inequality and food and nutrition insecurity, yet the policy discourse around food and nutrition security in India has largely...
View ArticleUN Commission on the Status of Women provides roadmap to women’s full and...
UN Member States today committed to ensure women’s full and equal participation and leadership in the economy, as well as women’s right to work and rights at work, as a vital step to achieving...
View ArticleGetting to grips with IFAD’s new Glossary on gender issues
IFAD’s Language Services and the Gender Desk have launched a multilingual glossary that provides a harmonized vocabulary in Arabic, English, French and Spanish. It contains a multilingual listing of...
View ArticleJoin CGIAR Gender for a webinar on Gender and Large-Scale Land Acquisition:...
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 Time: 3 - 4 p.m. Central European Time (CET) Led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), this webinar will present insights from a collaborative research...
View ArticleFSN Forum hosts ongoing online discussion on gender transformative impacts
The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) invites you to the online discussion Rural women: striving for gender transformative impacts, facilitated by FAO in collaboration with IFAD,...
View ArticleCelebrating International Day of Rural Women
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research celebrated the International Day of Rural Women (IDRW) October 15th by launching a campaign illustrating how CGIAR gender research contributes to...
View ArticleWomen's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and...
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Doss, Cheryl; and Theis, Sophie. Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence. Agricultural...
View ArticleCRP FTA shares work on gender mainstreaming
CGIAR Research Programe on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry's November newsletter highlights FTA’s gender research and gender integration work. FTA’s key research for development objectives —...
View ArticleHighlights from the First Annual Scientific Conference and Capacity...
December 4-8 was an exciting week for CGIAR gender scientists! KIT Royal Tropical Institute hosted 90 participants – scientists from across CGIAR and partners – to come together for the first...
View ArticleWebinar: Strengthening women’s tenure and rights to forests and trees and...
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is hosting the webinar “More than a seat at the table: Strengthening women’s tenure and rights to forests and trees and their participation in...
View ArticleIFAD/FAO/WFP Celebration of International Women’s Day
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) with the kind support of the Government of Canada have the...
View ArticleMedia advisory: International Women’s Day 2018
Time is Now: Rural and Urban Activists Transforming Women’s Lives International Women’s Day will be commemorated globally on 8 March. Coming on the heels of unprecedented global movement for women’s...
View ArticleWoman on a mission: Pushing for rights and a seat at the decision-making table
Rural women face a range of challenges across the environmental sector, including in forestry and agriculture. This has motivated the African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests...
View ArticleLatest newsletter out from CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research has released the sixth issue of their quarterly newsletter. It features insights from the Platform Coordinator, recent peer-reviewed gender...
View ArticleIn Focus: International Day of Rural Women
Rural women make up a quarter of the world’s population. They grow much of our food, strengthen economies and build climate resilience. From championing access to clean water in Kyrgyzstan to boosting...
View ArticleReady to grow: Investing in the future of rural women and girls
Rural women cultivate the land and grow crops to feed their families and communities, but many still lack access to the resources, opportunities, skills and services they need to farm more productively...
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