This section includes a selection of original studies undertaken for IFAD since 1995. The studies cover specific themes or discuss gender or household food security issues in the context of specific countries.

• Gender and water: securing water for improved rural livelihoods - the multiple-uses system approach
  This paper examines the impact of water-related projects on women, women's role in managing water resources and the constraints women face in gaining access to water.

• Memoria del Taller: Experiencias Microempresariales Rurales con Enfoque de Genero en Proyectos FIDA

• Engendered Mobilization, the Key to Livelihood Security: IFAD's Experience in South Asia

• Food Security, Poverty and Women: Lessons from Rural Asia

IFAD’s gender strengthening programme in Eastern and Southern Africa

Gender and Poverty Targeting in Market Linkage Operations, Synthesis report

• Market environment case studies in Mozambique
  25 Junho village
  Manrasse village
  Ocua village

• Market environment case studies in Uganda
  Otorongole village
  Lunyerere village
  Buraru village
• Market enviroment case studies in Zambia
  Kanyenda village
  Libuko village
  Muvwela village

• Field Diagnostic Study, Zambia

Hot links Asian Development Bank (ADB): Bangladesh - Making Infrastructure Work for Women and Nepal - Building Gender Responsive Water User Association FAO Gender and land compendium of country studies ELDIS: Regional and country gender profiles Knowledge networking for rural development in Asia and the Pacific region (ENRAP): Impact of self-help groups on women's quality of life in West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India and From savings to village development with self-help groups in India Gender and Water Alliance: All Case Studies of the Resouce Guide Gender and IWRM UNIFEM: Women’s land and property rights in situations of conflict and reconstruction and Gender profiles of countries in conflict UNDP: Pro-poor and pro-women policies: operationalizing the MDGs in Albania WFP: How fair is workfare? Gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia (2005) World Bank: Strategic Country Gender Assessments