Their land, their voices – About the importance of meaningful community engagement with local communities Land rights of local communities are often threatened in the context of increased demand for …
Women’s land rights on paper are not enough
Pubudini WickramaratneLand is critical to our daily lives. It is intrinsically linked with our identity, dignity, livelihoods, food, housing, education and health. Secure land rights are essential to sustainable and equitable …
A Long Way to Go: Influencing Social Norms to Combat Gender-Based Violence in Iraq
Diego Redondo CripovichThere are many social, political, religious, tribal and economic reasons that contribute to defining gender roles throughout the ages, and yet there appears to be a common thread of gender …
Ready to adapt: resilient women entrepreneurs in the pandemic
Aissa Boodhoo, Shekhar Anand and Ahmed ElassalUN Women estimates that during the first month of the pandemic, informal workers lost an average of 60 percent of their income: with losses as high as 81% in sub-Saharan …
Unlocking social entrepreneurship’s transformative potential for gender justice
Francesca El AsmarOn Social and Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, we celebrate the women who are innovating every day to respond to the problems they face in their communities, challenging a system that is …
Lessons in innovative financing for creating employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Ahmed Elassal and Shekhar AnandBackground Emerging market economies face a significant credit gap and access to finance is considered the biggest obstacle for enterprises. Banks have been the traditional source of funding, but the …
The $100 billion dollar question: what does the latest OECD report tell us?
Tracy CartyClimate change is deadly, costly, and those least responsible for causing it are being hardest hit. In 2009 developed countries* committed to mobilise $100 billion per year by 2020 to …
Initial Findings on Emergent Agency in a time of Covid – launch webinar and briefing
Duncan GreenIn September we kicked off a really interesting project on ‘Emergent Agency in a Time of Covid’ asking people if they wanted to be part of a collective effort to share and discuss the grassroots responses to the pandemic and start to explore their longer-term legacy.
Voices of Tajik Women during Covid
Nazira Kurbonovathe stories of three Tajik women, sharing their challenges, their successes and how they persevere, in their own words.