Strengthening research and leadership skills of African women at the intersection of climate change, agriculture and food security

The One Planet Women project aims to support women scientists from francophone West Africa working at the intersection of climate change and agriculture through a career development model that combines mentoring, scientific training, and networking opportunities. In the current context of a changing climate and search for innovative solutions for adaptation, mitigation, and resilience, it has become even more critical to increase investments for capacity building including for women scientists in Francophone Africa. With such investments, these scientists can benefit from available research and development opportunities, foster dialogue amongst themselves while also maximizing interaction and collaboration between male and female scientists/professionals from different linguistic and socio-cultural African backgrounds

Career development pathways for gender scientists leadership and mentoring program: Roadmap and action plan

The GENDER Platform through its capacity-development strategy has established the need to prioritize and foster the practice of gender integration throughout the agricultural research for development (AR4D) portfolio of projects and interventions. Agricultural scientists, managers and particularly gender researchers are at the core of these processes to ensure effective and appropriate responses to the needs and priorities of diverse groups of food system actors—including their most marginalized members, such as rural women. This means making realities and experiences of differentiated groups, an integral part of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all AR4D work, so that all are represented equitably and benefit equally. To achieve this, gender researchers, working across AR4D institutes and embedded within multi-disciplinary teams, should be equipped to lead and influence processes of designing and implementing socially inclusive approaches towards transformative change in the agricultural sector. To this end, the GENDER Platform has set out key areas of capacity building and strengthening for gender researchers in the CGIAR system and in partner institutes to enable them to enhance their influence and foster institutional culture change towards gender responsive AR4D. The focus on mentoring and leadership development of gender researchers, to support their professional career, personal growth, and capacities, will enable them to increase their perceived legitimacy and relevance – and that of their gender research – to bring gender and social inclusion concerns at the heart of food systems research for development

Workshop report for the review and validation of the Nigeria Gender Action Plan

In implementing the Paris Agreement and Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Conference of Parties (COP23), adopted a Gender Action Plan, which would be integrated into Parties Climate Action i.e. the Paris Agreement. For a more holistic climate action, it is important that Nigeria has a unified voice on gender and climate change issues. To domesticate the Gender Action Plan, there is a need to develop a National Gender Action Plan (GAP) that takes into consideration our national circumstances. This document would serve as a guide in mainstreaming gender into climate change plans and programs. A draft GAP was developed in 2016 and a workshop for the Review and Validation of Nigeria’s Climate Change Gender Action Plan held on the 30th November, 2018

Regulating disasters? The role of international law in disaster prevention and management

Purpose – This article explores the role of international law in disaster prevention and management, with a particular focus on the emerging field of international disaster law, and its relationship with international human rights law. It further introduces the four articles of the special column of this journal issue, dedicated to disasters and international law. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based upon primary sources of legislation and policy, as well as academic literature on disasters and international law. Findings – Although the field of international disaster law is at its infancy, we argue that this emergent area does have the potential to gain widespread recognition as a distinct field of law, and that this could be of benefit for the wider disaster management community. Originality/value – The article introduces key legal features and themes relating to international law and disasters, highlighting their relevance for disaster management. The added value is to widen the discussion on aspects of disasters regulated by international law, thus facilitating the future exchange with other academic subjects and operational fields. Keywords – disasters; international law; disaster management; treaties; human rights; international disaster law; international human rights law. Paper type – Research pape

Community perceptions of childbearing and use of safer conception strategies among HIV‐discordant couples in Kisumu, Kenya

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Women in African Literature Today, Eldred D. Jones, et. Al. (eds)

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Report and documentation / Expert Group Meeting on the Establishment of a Data Bank on Women and Development in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15-19 May 1989

Meeting: Expert Group Meeting on the Establishment of a Data Bank on Women and Development in Africa, 15-19 May 1989, Addis Ababa, E