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Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance  new

Gender and Climate Change-October 19-22, 2008 at the Dusit Hotel, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/WOMEN%20IN%20POLITICS%20AND%20GOVERNANCE%202008.doc

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Barter Markets: Sustaining people and nature in the Andes

As regulative institutions, Andean barter markets help sustain local food systems and the ecosystems in which they are embedded. Action research with indigenous communities in Peru generated new evidence on the importance of barter markets for: - giving some of the poorest social groups in the Andes better food security and nutrition; - conserving agricultural biodiversity (genetic, species, ecosystem) through the growing and exchange of native food crops in barter markets; - maintaining ecosystem services and landscape features in different agro-ecological zones; and - enabling local, autonomous control of production and consumption - and more specifically control by women over key decisions that affect both local livelihoods and ecological processes. (IIED, July 2005)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/14518IIED.pdf

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Best-of-Reports: Focus on Women and Sustainable Development

To mark International Women's Week, Reports magazine is running a retrospective of stories that focus on gender and research for sustainable development (March 8, 2002).

http://www.idrc.ca/es/ev-5499-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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Gender Analysis and Forestry: International Training Package

The Gender Analysis and Forestry Training Package contains ready-to-use training materials and training development materials. It aims to show how gender analysis can be used in forestry work and how to train others in its use. Based on a programme conducted in six Asian countries, the package was developed using cutting edge participatory methods. The training materials include: frameworks for training at the field and management levels; and, a set of case studies from the Asia Programme. The training development materials include sections on: designing and implementing participatory training programmes; designing and conducting participatory training workshops; and, how to use rapid rural appraisal to develop case studies. There is also a guide on how to use the package, as well as a booklet for planners and policy makers that explains the use of gender analysis in forestry.

http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/pdf/gender/tr-e01/tr-e01.0.pdf#search=%22Gender%20Analysis%20and%20Forestry%3A%20International%20Training%20Package%22

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Gender and codes of conduct: A case study from horticulture in South Africa

Dr Stephanie Barrientos, Sharon McClenaghan and Liz Orton 8/1999. Research project on gender and horticulture based on a case study of table grapes in South Africa. This was a policy-focused project, aiming to examine the gender dimension of horticultural employment in order to inform decision-makers on policies to improve gender equity in horticultural exports. This was done through the study of grape production in South Africa supplying the UK retail market.

http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/indepth/9908grap/grapes1.htm

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Gender and desertification: expanding roles for women to restore drylands

This review examines the impact of desertification on women, their role in the management of natural resources and drylands, and the constraints they face. It presents project experience in addressing women as natural resource users and managers in dryland areas, highlights some of the approaches used to reach women more effectively, and provides recommendations for expanding women's roles in order to restore dryland areas. (IFAD, KfW, 2006)

http://www.ifad.org/pub/gender/desert/gender_desert.pdf

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Gender and Energy for Sustainable Development: A Toolkit and Resource Guide

This toolkit has been designed for use development practitioners, energy planners, community groups and gender experts on ways to address energy issues at the project and policy level. This publication builds on the ongoing analysis of UNDP, ENERGIA and a host of international and national experts. Its contents can be used to enhance energy projects, gender focused projects, or indeed development projects at large.

http://www.undp.org/energy/genenergykit/index.html

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Gender and Natural Disasters [PDF]

PAHO. A Fact sheet looking at why Women are more vulnerable to disasters, Women responding to disasters and looking at natural disasters from a gender perspective.

http://www.paho.org/English/DPM/GPP/GH/genderdisasters.PDF

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Gender, Local Knowledge, and Lessons Learnt in Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity

This paper explores the linkages between gender, local knowledge systems and agrobiodiversity for food security by using the case study of LinKS, a regional FAO project in Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Tanzania over a period of eight years and now concluded. The project aimed to raise awareness on how rural men and women use and manage agrobiodiversity, and to promote the importance of local knowledge for food security and sustainable agrobiodiversity at local, institutional and policy levels by working with a diverse range of stakeholders to strengthen their ability to recognize and value farmers' knowledge and to use gender-sensitive and participatory approaches in their work. (Yianna Lambrou and Regina Laub, UNU-WIDER, 2006)

http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/rps/rps2006/rp2006-69.pdf

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Gender, Water and Poverty: Key Issues, Government Commitments and Actions for Sustainable Developme

Co-Authors: Prabha Khosla and Rebecca Pearl, WEDO, January 2003. This paper presents an overview of the relationship between gender, poverty and water. The first section explores how, in every corner of the globe, women play a central role in managing water supply and distribution. It also examines how access to water and sanitation has implications for women's health and economic activities. Case studies highlight water projects and initiatives that have succeeded in elevating women's status. Section two presents strategies for translating government commitments on gender, poverty eradication and water and sanitation into action by advocating for a gender perspective in all water and sanitation related policies. As a fundamental component of sustainable development, water is a strong entry point for global advocacy on connected issues such as human rights, economic justice, poverty, reproductive rights, land, health, HIV/AIDS, and energy. Also in this section, women experts put forth their own guidelines for integrating gender in water use and management for poverty eradication. Section three, in the form of an insert, is a compilation of existing government commitments on gender, poverty and water. Advocates can use this matrix as a tool for monitoring government action. At the end of the paper is a list of websites, contacts and other resources that can be used to get involved.

http://www.wedo.org/files/untapped_eng.pdf

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Guidelines for Practitioners: Integrating Indigenous and Gender Aspects in Natural Resource Management

Women are largely absent from public decision-making in environmental management, protection, and conservation while being critical actors at the grassroots level. The draft Platform argues that women, particularly indigenous women, have pivotal roles in environmental conservation. It identifies a linkage between poverty and deteriorating natural environments and states that the strategic actions needed for sound environmental management requires a holistic, multidisciplinary, and inter-sectional approach. It proposes actions towards promoting the involvement of women in environmental decision-making at all levels and to ensure the integration of women's needs, concerns, and perspectives in policies and programs for environmental and sustainable development. (IGNARM: Network on Indigenous Peoples, Gender and Natural Resource Management, 2006)

http://www.ignarm.dk/resources/guidelines_introduction.htm

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HARAMATA 49: Peace, land, women and power in Africa

This bulletin includes articles on: Women and leadership: Lessons from the Sahel; A new global security: An interview with Mary Robinson; Tanzanian herders contend with new layers of control; Can land registration work for the poor?; Comprehensive peace in eastern Sudan; Pastoralists in parliament; The Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP)initiative; Land expropriations for the Chad-Cameroon pipeline; Pastoral livelihoods in Ethiopia. (International Institute for Environment and Devlopment, March 2006)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=12502IIED

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Keeping the Water Flowing

In the villages near Mahoba in India, WaterAid's partner Gramonati Sansthan have trained a group of seven women to become mechanics - each looking after their village pumps, but also joining forces and working together when larger repairs are needed. As women are the main collectors of water and the main carers in the family their involvement often means the difference between a projects' success or failure. And having women in these roles also helps to change people's opinions, since women often face big problems with no property rights, no housing and lower literacy rates. (WaterAid)

http://www.wateraid.org/uk/what_we_do/where_we_work/india/3912.asp#Top

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Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management - A Practical Journey to Sustainability: A Resource Guide (PDF)

UNDP, (2003). This guide is a reference document to assist mainstreaming gender within the context of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). It builds on existing initiatives by summarizing the available tools and materials on gender mainstreaming in IWRM. It is meant to stimulate further reading and research. The guide has been developed in response to an identified need. While a lot of information exists on gender mainstreaming in IWRM, this information is dispersed in different institutions and organizations, making it difficult to know where to get specific information. This guide supports the efforts of those trying to mainstream gender in their projects and those seeking to improve their knowledge and skills in gender and IWRM.

http://www.undp.org/water/docs/resource_guide.pdf

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Seed Diversity in the Drylands: Women and Farming in South India

Seeds are central to farming and food production. Saving, selecting, reproducing, storing and sowing those seeds is often dependent on women's knowledge and expertise. In the dryland farming systems of South India's Deccan Plateau, women's roles in maintaining seed and crop diversity enable rural families to cope with the region's many environmental demands. Here seeds and their management form an economy all of their own, whereby self-reliance in seed, crop diversity and nutrition are closely intertwined. But increasingly, seeds are becoming the 'property' of the private sector and big business. (International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/14520IIED.pdf

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Summary Of The World Summit On Sustainable Development: 26 August - 4 September 2002

Summary of the WSSD. Vol. 22 No. 51 Friday, 6 September 2002. Published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/vol22/enb2251e.html

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The Gender and Water Alliance

The Gender and Water Alliance is a network of 133 organisations and individuals from around the world with an independent steering committee. It is an Associated Programme of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) funded by the governments of the Netherlands and United Kingdom. Beacuse of the pooled experience and skills contained in this network, the GWA offers a mix of information and knowledge sharing activities such as electronic conferencing, a web site, advocacy leaflets and video, annual reports, capacity building and pilot programmes.

http://www.genderandwateralliance.org/index.htm

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The major importance of minor resources : women and plant biodiversity

Exposing gender biases in environmental planning. Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED (2003). By P. Howard. This paper describes how women predominate in plant biodiversity management in their roles as housewives, plant gatherers, home gardeners, herbalists, seed custodians and informal plant breeders. It argues, however, that because most plant use, management and conservation occurs within the domestic realm, and because the principal values of plant genetic resources are localised and non-monetary, women are largely invisible to outsiders and are easily undervalued despite this predomination.

http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC14934.htm

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Tiempo: A bulletin on climate and development - Issue 59, April 2006

This issue of Tiempo includes articles on: the assimilation of gender issues in the climate change debate; the International Year of Deserts and Desertification; climate change impacts on fisheries in Malawi; adaptive capacity in Bangladesh; the global distribution of low coastal zone settlements; the latest news on the climate negotiations and climate events world-wide. (International Institute for Environment and Development, April 2006)

http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/latest.htm

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We know what we want: South Asian women speak out on climate change adaptation [pdf]

This report shows, poor women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal are struggling to protect their lives, homes, assets and livelihoods from weather-related hazards. Field research conducted in the Ganga river basin in the aftermath of massive flooding illustrates how these women's livelihoods are being affected by erratic monsoon patterns (Actionaid and Institute of development Studies, November 2007).

http://www.actionaid.org/assets/pdf/ActionAid%20%20IDS%20Report%20_We%20know%20what%20we%20need.pdf

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Women and the Environment (pdf)

UNEP, 2004. This publication makes the often hidden links between women and the environment visible, with an explicit focus on the gender-related aspects of land, water and biodiversity conservation and management. UNEP hopes that Women and the Environment will inspire the environmental and sustainable development community to better understand the importance of gender, and to integrate a gender perspective accross all of its work.

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=67&ArticleID=4518&l=en

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Women's Land Rights in the Transition to Individualized Ownership (pdf)

Implications for Tree Resource Management in Western Ghana by Agnes R. Quisumbing, Ellen Payongayong, J.B.Aidoo, and Keijiro Otsuka, August 1998

http://www.ifpri.cgiar.org/themes/mp17/briefs/mp17_rghtbrief.pdf

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