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Policy Brief: Building Local Democracy through Natural Resources Interventions: An Environmentalist's Responsibility
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This policy brief from World Resources Institute (WRI) describes how natural resource management can strengthen and improve local democracy.
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Fact sheets and policy briefs
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Gender & Climate Change: Toolkit For Women (2012)
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This toolkit on Gender and Climate Change is part of an important endeavour by Isis International to explore innovative and strategic ways to communicate gender justice and climate justice issues, especially from Southern feminist perspectives.
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Guides, tools and manuals
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Review of Oxfam’s Women’s WASH Platforms (2011)
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This report is a review of the Women's Wash Platforms as an approach to gender issues in WASH. The WWP's are teams of women established at the village level, working within their own villages to disseminate information on water and sanitation issues, encourage ‘best practices,’ and implement small Oxfam-‐funded projects that they design and implement themselves with the help of Oxfam staff and partners.
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Publications
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A Gender Tale of Water and Energy (2008)
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This comic book has been jointly developed by the Pacific Energy and Gender Network (PEG) and the WASH programme of the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC). The aim of the booklet is to create awareness on water, energy, and gender issues among primary and lower secondary school students, communities, and community leaders around the world.
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Water demand management in areas of groundwater over-exploitation (2006)
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The purpose of this research project of DFID was to develop water demand management strategies in areas where aquifers are being over-exploited, ensuring the long-term livelihoods of the vulnerable and poor are safeguarded.
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What Works for Women: Proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security (2012)
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Nine international development agencies have produced this briefing to share the lessons learned based on their experience of promoting gender equality and working with women smallholders and rural women over many decades. The paper concludes with a number of recommendations for policy makers on measures to help close the gender gap in agriculture.
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Training Guide: Gender and Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Rural Development (2011)
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The purpose of this guide is to promote gender-responsive and socially-sensitive climate change
research and development in the agriculture and food security sectors through participatory
approaches. The guide focuses on the household and community level. It provides users with
resources and tools for collecting, analysing and sharing gender-sensitive information about
agricultural communities, households and individual household members who are facing climatic
changes.
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Guides, tools and manuals
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Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook (2008)
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This publication of the World Bank, FAO and IFAD presents a rich compilation of
experiences, some of them ongoing, in which agricultural projects have
incorporated gender-related components or adapted their operations to
allow for gender variables and engage issues that affect men and women
differently.
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Publications
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UN WWAP UNESCO Project for Gender Sensitive Water Monitoring Assessment and Reporting
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There is universal agreement in international and national policy circles that the collection of gender-disaggregated water indicators is of the utmost importance and priority. The UN World Water Assessment Programme has launched a project to develop and test the collection of key gender-disaggregated water data. GWA member Vasudha Pangare is part of the project that will yield a set of gender-disaggregated data on topics such as women's water empowerment and participation in water-decision making.
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Case study on Gender and Empowerment through Wash
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It is often assumed that participation and representation of women in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) committees will lead to their empowerment. Therefore, in order to get a better insight into “How” participation in the WASH committees can lead to empowerment of women, Simavi and the Gender and Water Alliance, through the Gender and Water Programme Bangladesh, decided to do a study to get a better insight on “If”, “How” and “Why” women’s empowerment has taken place as a result of participation in the WASH committee or other WASH interventions.
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Knowledge Development
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Research and Field study Reports
