• Polishing the stone
  Polishing the stone, that shares some of IFAD's knowledge and experience in promoting gender equity in rural development projects.
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• Gender and water: securing water for improved rural livelihoods - the multiple-uses system approach
  Most of the world’s 1.2 billion poor people, two thirds of whom are women, live in waterscarce countries and do not have access to safe and reliable supplies of water for productive and domestic uses (IFAD 2001a). The bulk of these rural poor people are dependant on agriculture for their livelihoods and live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the regions which are also home to most of the world’s water poor (Molden 2007).
• Gender and desertification: Making ends meet in drylands (2006)
  Desertification is the process of land degradation that affects dryland areas and is caused by poverty, unsustainable land management and climate change. Drylands lose their productive capacity in a spiral of destruction that twins increased land degradation with increased poverty and food insecurity. Drought and desertification threaten the livelihoods of more than 1.2 billion people in 110 countries. The problem is particularly acute in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.

• Gender and desertification: Expanding roles for women to restore drylands (2006)
  In addition to caring for their families, women across the developing world spend considerable proportions of their time and energy using and preserving land for the production of food and fuel and to generate income for their families and communities. These activities include crop production, growing fruits and vegetables, raising small livestock, tending trees, processing products for food and markets, and managing and collecting water and fuel. Women are usually responsible for the plots in which food crops are grown, while men are responsible for the plots on which cash crops are grown. The latter account for a major part of the threat of soil nutrient depletion and desertification.

• Working for Change: Implementing the Beijing Platform for Action: IFAD’s approach (2005)
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• Rural women's access to land and property in selected countries - Progress Towards Achieving the Aims of Articles 14, 16 and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Produced by FAO (Gender and Population Division), IFAD (Technical Advisory Division) and the International Land Coalition - (authored by Maria Hartl), June 2004

• Evaluación de las actividades en manejo de recursos naturales con enfoque de género en MARENASS

• Generando ingresos y cambio reales en las relaciones de genero

• Mujeres campesinas insertándose al mercado: Una experiencia del grupo organizado de mujeres Santa Rosa de Lima de la comunidad campesina de Coripampa – Apurimac - Perú

• Indicadores de género: Lineamientos conceptuales y metodológicos para su formulación y utilización por los proyectos FIDA de América Latina y el Caribe (2004)

• Gender plan of action (2003)

• Women as agents of change (2003)
• Mainstreaming Gender
  in IFAD Projects in Asia (2003)
  • South Asia
  • East and South East Asia
• Memoria del Taller: Experiencias microempresariales
  Rurales con enfoque de genero en proyectos FIDA (2003)

• Cerrando brecha: Manual anual para orientar a organizaciones rurales hacia la equidad de género (2003)

• Strategic framework for IFAD 2002-2006 (2002)

• An IFAD approach to gender mainstreaming: The experience of Latin America and the Caribbean (2002)
• IFAD's gender strengthening programme in Eastern and Southern Africa (2000)
• India and Nepal: Human stories of the rural poor: Gender mainstreaming (2000)
• Seminario-Taller para el fortalecimiento de los apsectos de género en los proyectos FIDA asociados al PROCASUR informe (2000)
• Memory checks for programme and project design - Household food security and gender (1999)
• Agricultural implements used by women farmers in Africa (1998)
• The key to poverty alleviation (1998)

 

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