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One year into the implementation of the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) programme, this working paper reflects on progress in linking gender equality and resilience within development projects. It draws on the preliminary paper ‘Gender and Resilience’ also produced by BRACED’s Knowledge Manager in 2015, which examined how non-government organisations (NGOs) who are funded […]

The contribution that external interventions make to individual, household and community resilience to climate extremes and disasters will largely depend on the suitability of those activities to the local context and the extent to which implementing agencies address existing social dynamics and power relations. Exploring the gender dimension of resilience to disasters and climate change […]

Although climate change and poverty are increasingly recognised as interlinked global problems, responses from governments and development agencies often focus on their scientific and economic dimensions only. This guide highlights the advantages and challenges of pursuing climate compatible development from a gender perspective. International frameworks are gradually reflecting gender issues better, but all too often wording about gender is simply added […]

This paper analyzes sex-differentiated use, decision-making and perceptions regarding communal forests in indigenous communities of Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast. Methods include a survey, focus groups, participant observation and adaptive collaborative management processes over a two-year period. Results revealed that while a higher percentage of men than women participate in the harvest of eight forest products, women […]

When you ask 10 people to define a “landscape”, chances are you get 10 different answers. Landscapes can be very diverse and perform varying functions for different people. Even at the Global Landscapes Forum, there is no universally agreed upon definition of a landscape. Is this a problem? I don’t think so. The beauty of […]

I am from Mexico, a country where the vast majority of our forests are considered common property. In the face of this land tenure, the concept of “landscape” doesn’t have the same translation in Spanish. Thus, we use different terms to define a wide variety of territorial mosaics that include crops, plantations, cattle raising, degraded land, […]