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Journal article

Introduction: Gender and Resilience

23/11/2015

9 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Journal article

What if gender became an essential, standard element of Vulnerability Assessments?

23/11/2015

15 pages long

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What if gender became an essential, standard element of Vulnerability Assessments?

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Vulnerability Assessments (VAs) can be useful tools for providing key insights for nongovernment organisations and other development actors, including governments. Not only can they provide an extensive, ‘landscape-wide’ understanding of vulnerability and its underlying causes in a specific context, but this understanding can be jointly owned by all participants. They can thus be used for […]

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Issue briefing

El Nino Key Messages: Urgent action now can prevent major suffering and loss

20/11/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of poor and vulnerable people face hunger and poverty this year and next because of record global temperatures, droughts and erratic rains in 2014 and 2015, followed by the development of possibly the most powerful El Niño on record. This briefing makes the case to urgently scale up humanitarian response in countries already in […]

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Briefing paper

A Different Route: Reimagining the idea of prosperity in Asia

12/11/2015

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia is home to some of the world’s fastest growing economies. Yet millions of people remain poor, while a handful gets richer and richer. Asia needs a development model that leaves no one behind: not the workers and farmers, who act as the driving force behind Asia’s growth – and certainly not the women, who […]

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Briefing note

Climate Change Spending in Ethiopia: Recommendations to bridge the funding gap for climate financing

01/11/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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The Government of Ethiopia considers climate change to be one of its priorities in responding to the country’s long-term development needs. The nation’s widely acclaimed Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy has called for annual spending of $7.5bn. With federal budgetary resources for climate change relevant actions estimated to be in the order of $440m […]

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Briefing note

Africa’s Smallholders Adapting to Climate Change: The need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers

14/10/2015

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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Climate change is undermining the ability of African nations to feed themselves. Women smallholder producers are on the front line of dealing with the impacts, but are not first in line for international climate finance. Wealthy countries have committed to helping countries in Africa to adapt to climate change, but few women producers are feeling […]

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Technical briefing

From Lessons to Practice and Impact: Scaling up pathways in peoples’ biodiversity management

08/10/2015

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The rights and technical capacities of indigenous peoples and smallholder farmers are the focus of the three-year global programme, ‘Putting lessons into practice: Scaling up People’s Biodiversity Management for Food Security’.Â The programme aims to support farmers to influence policies and institutions on the sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food security in the […]

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Annual report

SeedsGROW Progress Report: Harvesting global food security and justice in the face of climate change

30/09/2015

1 documents

77 pages long

Languages: English

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This first progress report for the five-year Sida programme provides a comprehensive review of programme activities, progress towards outcomes, risks encountered and lessons learned in the first 18 months – from 1 October 2013 to 31 March 2015. It also discusses adjustments required to Year 2 implementation as a result of these findings. SeedsGROW – thanks […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Introducing the SWIFT Tool for Environmental Assessment and Risk Screening for Rural Water Supply

01/08/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Achieving long-term increases in rural water-supply coverage depends on many factors. A new tool developed for the SWIFT Consortium supports environmental assessment and risk screening activitiesfor rural water supplies in low-income contexts. When conducting a detailed hydrogeological survey is not an option, the SWIFT tool provides simple guidance to help identify and mitigate environmental risks to long-term water […]

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Discussion paper

The Age of Development: Mission accomplished or RIP?

02/06/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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This discussion paper summarises the evidence and debates for a ‘cup half full’ interpretation of development, which argues that poverty can be abolished within a matter of years. This abolition can be achieved while global health and education indicators are on a seemingly inexorable upward curve, along with human rights and political inclusion. In contrast, […]

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