This briefing note summarises Shirley Lennon’s dissertation for a Master’s degree from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, which highlights the link between a lack of access to water and sanitation facilities and sexual violence against women within the context of urban slums in Delhi and suggests how this problem can be addressed.
This briefing note summarises Keren Massey’s dissertation for a Master’s degree from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine which examines whether women are exposed to humiliation, violence and rape as a result of inadequate toilet facilities and its scope and impact in order to inform future policy and programming.
This technical brief is a tool to support Mission WASH leads, gender advisors, and implementing partners in designing strategies, projects, and activities that both improve women’s and girls’ empowerment and achieve the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) water security, sanitation, and hygiene development objectives.
This IUCN Issue Brief offers a topline summary of IUCN’s research Gender-based violence and environment linkages: The violence of inequality. It is designed to provide information to environment decision makers, practitioners, and anyone looking to explore linkages.
This brief summarises good practices from the two case studies, which explored gender-mainstreaming processes undertaken in projects financially supported by the CIF and African Development Bank: a forest project in Ghana and a renewable energy initiative in Morocco. Each demonstrates numerous gender-responsive strategies for realising improved results, captured in this document towards raising wider awareness on approaches.
This Brief has been developed to introduce FAO staff and partners to both the relevance and practical know-how of addressing gender-based violence in food security and agriculture interventions.
Report offering specific advice to policymakers and advocates seeking to use the framework of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to assess and mitigate the risk that arms transfers will be diverted to poaching networks or exacerbate the negative impacts of militarizing wildlife protection. Gender-based violence (GBV) is identified as one of the risks posed by arms proliferation, wildlife poaching and the militarisation to counter these crimes.
Brief on the impact of climate change on women, peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region, including increased gender-based violence (GBV), displacement, migration and conflict.
Brief on the gender-based violence (GBV) surrounding industrias oil palm and rubber plantations across West and Central Africa. Findings include sexual violence, harassment and abuse on the job and against women securing food for their families, violence and abuse against women using traditional palm oil and women’s exclusion from decision-making and violence against those defending …
Brief on the role of women in small-scale fisheries with a focus on markets, trade and migration; capacities and well-being; identities and networks; governance and rights; and climate change, disasters and resilience. WorldFish provides an insight on their work to address fish-for-sex in fisheries.
