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By Hans Friederich, Director General, International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR). Bamboo can be a powerful ally for land restoration. This strategic resource thrives on problem soils and steep slopes, helps to conserve soil and water, and improves land quality. Its potential is significant – if its benefits are recognized by decision makers and […]

IUCN’s Environment and Gender Index (EGI) monitors progress toward gender equality and women’s empowerment in the environmental arena, holding governments and policy makers accountable. Existing knowledge can effectively inform national gender and environment policies and their implementation, bridging data gaps and overcoming barriers, to formulate best practices for using sex-disaggregated data and establishing a way […]

By responding to the climate solutions proposed by local women around the world, funders can catalyze long-term change that benefits the environment and entire communities. Full-merged PDF also available in Gender and Climate Change : evidence and experience

This set of policy briefs seeks to address some of the most pressing policy issues concerning gender and climate change, by drawing on the extensive experience of each contributing partner organization. Our hope is that the concise and empirically grounded recommendations in each brief can provide guidance to policy makers and programmers to better identify […]

Simultaneously addressing gender, environment and climate change by strengthening policy coordination, programmatic partnerships, research, capacities and knowledge sharing can advance sustainable development and address inequalities. Full-merged PDF also available in Gender and Climate Change : evidence and experience

This brief highlights policy lessons on providing support to women farmers, and offers guidelines for crafting gender-responsive climate policies at global and national levels. Full-merged PDF also available in Gender and Climate Change : evidence and experience