Livelihoods and gender
Gender inequality means that women and men often do not have equal access to the assets they need to pursue or sustain their livelihoods and those of their families. Policies, institutions and processes, both formal and informal, reinforce these gender inequalities. More...
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- Best practice for women's empowerment
- ( F. Flintan / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union) , 2008)
- It is often suggested that women in pastoral societies are marginalised and oppressed either through embedded patriarchal values or through outside influences such as development actors, whose monetar...
- Reviewing participatory mapping - what works and what doesn't
- ( J. Corbett / International Fund for Agricultural Development , 2009)
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Participatory mapping, commonly used in participatory development, plays an important role in helping marginalised groups by making visible the association between land and local com...
- A framework for analysis and practice: SDC's Systematic Approach to Rural Development (SARD)
- ( A. Witteveen;L. Ruedin / Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation , 2009)
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These days, development practitioners are able to draw on a number of analytical frameworks to assist in the design and implementation of poverty reduction programmes. In fact, it has become a...
- Awareness of climate change from a gendered perspective
- ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2007)
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This two page briefing paper documents how, as awareness of climate change has grown, so too has the gendered dimensions of its effects on people. It provides an overview of concepts and practical ...
A gender and livelihoods perspective on humanitarian crisis
- ( United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , 2008)
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The increasing recognition that responses to humanitarian crisis must work to avoid long term dependency on relief aid guides this briefing. Approaches to Early Recovery (ER) aim to support the ear...
