African women to play key roles in mitigating impacts of climate change

Gender-disaggregated data, crucial to ensuring gender-sensitive response and recovery for displaced women and girls in disaster contexts

Preparing for CSW66: ECOWAS and UN Women organise a virtual regional consultation of West and Central Africa ministers

This news piece was originally published on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Website.

From victims to leaders: ending gender-based violence in the Lake Chad Basin

Benin: Impact des changements climatiques sur les services en santé de reproduction

The imperative of climate adaption for Africa

Building resilience across societies in an inclusive manner

Kwara, Nigeria: Young women leading the fight for greener and stronger communities during Covid-19

In the Kwara Kwara state of Nigeria, two young women have campaigned for resilient recovery from the pandemic and mobilised youth in the fight for greener, stronger and healthy communities. Azeez Abubakar reports.

Collaboration between gender equality and climate change in Côte d’Ivoire

Ministers meet in Côte d’Ivoire to launch an integrated approach to climate change and gender equality in development planning

Lessons from the past: protecting women and girls from violence during COVID-19

More attention should be paid to women and girls in humanitarian settings, those whose safety has already been reduced due to conflict, natural disaster or displacement.

4 assumptions about gender that distort how we think about climate change (and 3 ways to do better)

In CAR, violence against women is surging amid COVID-19 pandemic, study finds

FEATURE: Women’s group boosts resilience in the face of crisis

Strengthening resilience of women and girls affected by conflicts, violent extremism and climate change In the Lake Chad region

Enhancing gender-responsive disaster risk management: why a change of mindset is the first step

Cabo Verde: Solar panels help communities adapt to drought

Growing rice and resilience with women in Mali

Gender research in IPM: Women’s empowerment as a key to unlocking food security

Women join hands to oust Ebola from the Democratic Republic of the Congo