Filling Knowledge and Data Gaps Archives

Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT): Catalyzing change at all levels for equality and sustainability

The work presented in this annual review demonstrates that investments in gender-responsive knowledge, strategies, cooperation, and action across sectors strengthen opportunities to meet both gender equality and environment goals – with results during a key year of environmental policymaking.

Report

| 2022

Best Practices in Gender and Biodiversity: Pathways for multiple benefits

Collection of best practices that shows us how gender targeted action is critical to achieve sustainable and transformative results for biodiversity.

Report

| 2022

Women and the Environment. An Asia-Pacific Snapshot

Snapshot of available gender and environment data in Asia-Pacific region that could inform environmental decision-making.

Factsheet

| 2022

Model questionnaire: Measuring the nexus between gender and environment

UN Women innovative tool to help countries interested in collecting data on the gender-environment nexus design their national surveys.

Toolkit

| 2022

Power and Potential. A Comparative Analysis of National Laws and Regulations Concerning Women’s Rights to Community Forests

Assessment of the status of developing countries’ legal frameworks regarding women’s community land rights, and whether states are meeting their obligations under national and international laws.

Report

| 2017

Health implications of women’s involvement in wildlife trafficking in Nigeria

Chapter from the book "Women and Wildlife Trafficking: Participants, Perpetrators and Victims" that explores the health implications of women's involvement in wildlife trafficking.

Academic paper

| 2022

Gender and Illegal Wildlife Trade: Overlooked and Underestimated

Synthesis and assessment of the gendered dynamics of the global illegal wildlife trade and a roadmap to bringing gender analysis into policies and programmes.

Report

| 2021

Climate crisis affects women, women affect climate struggle

Climate change has gender-differentiated impacts on women and men and can increase gender-based violence. This article presents the experiences of two climate activists from Turkey at the forefront of climate and gender activism.