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Gender and Climate Change Key Issues Guide

Contributing to discussions at the 56th Commission of the Status of Women, a key issues guide on gender and climate change has been produced in collaboration with the BRIDGE programme. The guide advocates for an approach where: women and men have an equal voice in decision-making on climate change; policymaking institutions and processes are not biased towards men or women; and broad social constraints that limit women’s access to strategic and practical resources no longer exist.

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Lost in transition: transgender people, rights and HIV vulnerability in the Asia-Pacific region: S. Winter / 2012; The Asia-Pacific region is home to a large number of trans people; individuals whose gender identity, and/or expression of their gender, differs from social norms related to their gender of birth. T...
Is adaptation to climate change gender neutral?: H. Djoudi / Commonwealth Forestry Association, 2011; This article is based on a case study on the Lake Faguibine area in northern Mali. The researchers conducted six single gender participatory workshops in two communities in order to assess the vulnera...
Sparing lives: better reproductive health for poor women: World Bank, 2009; The report highlights that the region faces enormous challenges in addressing inequalities in reproductive health of poor women, and focuses on the risks they face. This phenomenon perpetuates an inte...
Whispers to voices: gender and social transformation in Bangladesh: World Bank, 2008; Several recent reports have highlighted the dramatic improvements in education - especially girls’ secondary education - in fertility, mortality, immunization, water and sanitation, rural roads and mi...
Briefing paper presenting lessons learned from working with women smallholders on food security: R. Tripathi;K. Deering;N. Saracini / 2012; This briefing paper is the result of a collaboration between nine different agencies, sharing lessons learned from working with women smallholders in order to close the gender gap in agriculture. Desp...
Briefing Paper: The Right to Contraceptive Information and Services for Women and Adolescents: X. A. Ibanez / Center for Reproductive Rights, 2010; This briefing paper examines the right to access contraceptive information and services for women and adolescents. In doing so, it assesses the benefits of contraceptive access, lays out the human rig...
"It's her responsibility": partner involvement in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programmes, northern Tanzania: E. J. Falnes / Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2011; Partner involvement has been deemed fundamental in prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programmes, but is difficult to achieve. This study aimed to explore acceptability of the PMTCT pr...
Gender, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Rural Livelihoods: e-Agriculture, 2010; This paper explores some of the challenges faced when implementing projects aimed at empowering women in ICT in relation to rural livelihoods....
The Gender Implications of Large-Scale Land Deals: J. Behrman / 2011; Large-scale land deals by investors in developing countries are generating considerable attention. However key stakeholders have so far paid little attention to a dimension of these deals essential to...
Responding to the learning and developmental needs of out-of-school adolescents: G. Kasinathan / IT for Change, 2011; The document discusses the background, strategies, outcomes, challenges and learnings of Kishori Chitrapata, a project of IT for Change that addresses the learning needs of out-of-school adolescent gi...