'Oxfam is calling for climate change adaptation policies at every level to be gender-sensitive so that they address both women’s and men’s needs and interests. Only this approach will be effective in building community-wide resilience to climate change, reducing gender inequalities, and so also promoting development.'

This article investigates the links between energy, gender, poverty, and development and recommends ways of including a gender perspective in energy planning. The purpose is to raise issues related to these links and recommend ways of tackling the vicious cycle of energy poverty. This is the nineth volume of Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group. This year's edition presents a special feature more...

'To mainstream gender and women-related issues and concerns in the government's agenda, nongovernment organizations, development partners and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), in cooperation with the Department of Fisheries (DOF) under the MInistry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of Cambodia, conducted the technical assistance project entitled Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment - Gender and Development (GAD) Activity for Enhancing the Role of Women in Inland Fisherie more...

February 7-12, 2008, Vital Voices partnered with The World Bank Gender Action Plan to host a group of 25 African women entrepreneurs and accomplished African women advocates in Cape Town, South Africa for Leveling the Playing Field for Women’s Economic & Social Progress, a program of the African Women’s Leadership Initiative sponsored by ExxonMobil Foundation.
Program participants represented 12 African countries from East, West, Central and Southern Africa. The curriculum was designed more...

New York — In preparation for climate change negotiations in Poznań, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA), in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations and Heinrich Böll Foundation North America, commenced the first global effort to ensure that climate change funds target women and men equitably. The Gender and Climate Change Finance Workshop, held in New York, brought together climate change experts, more...

In an attempt to reduce the high number of maternal and newborn deaths, the Lao PDR Ministry of Health has launched an ambitious national plan to increase both the provision of, and demand for, quality maternity care. Developed with assistance from UNFPA, WHO, JICA, donor countries and national organizations, the plan aims to reduce the maternal mortality rate in Lao PDR from 405 deaths per 100,000 births to 260 per 100,000, thereby reaching the maternity mortality reduction target for Millenniu more...

Client of ACCION Microfinance Bank, Limited. Everywhere you walk in the Daleko Market there’s oil underfoot—so many layers of it that the ground feels like putty. Daleko is Lagos, Nigeria’s vegetable oil market—a beehive of stalls cascading down tightly spun alleys. Vendors slip and slide their way around, masterfully carrying heavy oil jugs. Alhaja Falolu Afusat is queen bee at Daleko—head of the market. She’s been selling vegetable oil here since 1979. Aided by the name “King’s more...

We are all feeling the effects of climate change. Whether it’s reduced rainfall in Australia and Uganda, increasingly severe cyclones in Bangladesh, or sea level rise and storm surges in the Pacific. Climate change affects women the most – particularly those living in developing countries. But these women are fighting back, often leading the response to the climate crisis in their communities. Join Oxfam Australia and Make Poverty History as we launch Sisters on the Planet in support of thes more...

October 2008. 'WWSF takes great pleasure in announcing to the media and to the international community the 13 winners of its annual Prize for women's creativity in rural life 2008. The award ($ 3000 for one selected organization in Africa, and $ 500 for all other Laureates) honors creative and courageous women and women's groups around the world for their contribution in improving the
quality of life in rural communities, for protecting the environment, transmitting knowledge and standing up fo more...

By offering a sheep, you enable a family to have two meals per day. Till recently, many rural women and their families in the region of Mopti (Mali) could afford only one meal a day. Thanks to the development of microcredit activities spurred by the NGO Prométhée and its ' sheep project ', rural women and their families are now eating two meals a day. The WWSF Women's World Summit Foundation supports this project and invites you to also participate by giving a sheep to a rural woman in Mali fo more...