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The IISD provides advisory services to developing countries on sustainable agricultural investment and voluntary sustainability standards. It has produced an analytical framework tracking agricultural economies in 117 countries and is pursuing goals for 2020 including gender equality in land-based investment, seed law analysis, and the Ceres2030 project to cost interventions for ending hunger.

The IISD provides advisory services to developing countries on sustainable agriculture investments and voluntary sustainability standards to protect rural livelihoods and land rights. The organization produces analytical frameworks to track agricultural transformation in Africa and Asia, promotes gender equality in land-based investments, and analyzes seed laws and intellectual property. Additionally, the IISD collaborates on trade policy analysis for the WTO and the Ceres2030 project, which estimates the public investment costs required to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger).

The document highlights the role of the NAP Global Network in supporting over 120 developing countries with climate adaptation planning. It details specific interventions in Ethiopia and Colombia, provides metrics on technical assistance and training, and calls for $5 million in donations to support countries most vulnerable to climate change.

The briefing examines the gap between South Sudan's formal commitments to women's rights and the reality of their exclusion from political and economic decision-making. It highlights how women, who make up 65% of the population, are disproportionately affected by poverty and gender-based violence while remaining underrepresented in government appointments and diplomatic negotiations. The authors argue that sustainable development and peacebuilding require moving beyond basic infrastructure to include women as active agents of political change.

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established at the 2010 Cancun UN climate talks to channel finance from developed to developing countries for climate adaptation and mitigation. While African nations seek the GCF to address 'climate debt' and provide grants for public goods, activists warn that the fund could become a 'Greedy Corporate Fund' if it prioritizes private sector facilities and carbon markets over the needs of the most vulnerable. Significant tension exists regarding the role of the World Bank, which serves as the initial three-year trustee and seeks to be an implementing entity, raising concerns about conflicting interests and the imposition of conditions on poor governments.

This policy brief by the Institute for Security Studies examines the intersection of climate change, gender inequality, and human mobility in Africa. It argues that gender-neutral climate policies deepen existing inequalities and that women, despite being key agents of adaptation, face disproportionate risks and barriers to resources, finance, and decision-making.

The report assesses Zambia's stability, noting that while the country has avoided civil war, it faces structural threats from pervasive poverty, neopatrimonial governance, and an imbalance of power between the executive and other state branches. It highlights the risk of political entrepreneurs exploiting ethnic tensions and the potential for social unrest due to economic inequality and a stalled constitutional review process.

The report analyzes UN discourse on small arms and light weapons (SALW) from 2001 to 2003, concluding that gender perspectives remain marginalized. The authors find that when gender is mentioned, women are almost exclusively characterized as passive victims, while the specific impacts on men and the active roles of women as peace-builders are largely ignored. While NGOs and international organizations demonstrate a more nuanced understanding of gender, member state delegations often lack expertise or prioritize other issues. The document recommends bridging the gap between gender experts and policymakers through targeted education and coordinated advocacy to ensure that the 2006 Review Conference on SALW reflects the diverse experiences of both men and women.

The document provides a framework for integrating gender considerations into National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes through five actions: getting informed via gender analysis, committing to strategic entry points, connecting gender and adaptation actors, assessing impacts using sex-disaggregated data, and reflecting to improve results. It notes that while most NAP documents mention gender, there is a lack of detailed analysis on gender differences and specific implementation plans for adaptation action.

The document outlines the necessity of moving from the principles of the Paris Agreement to the practice of gender-responsive climate change adaptation. It emphasizes that adaptation efforts must consider how gender and social norms intersect with factors like age and race to influence vulnerability. The text identifies three critical areas for action: assessing who benefits from adaptation results to avoid exacerbating inequalities, ensuring equitable participation in decision-making to overcome the under-representation of women and marginalized groups, and addressing gender gaps in education and income to enable women and girls to act as agents of change.

Envisioning Resilience is a creative initiative developed by the NAP Global Network, Lensational, and GirlsCARE to increase the inclusion of underrepresented women in climate adaptation decision-making. The approach uses a four-step process: training in photography and storytelling, the development of individual and collective visual stories, a policy dialogue between trainees and government decision-makers to establish shared adaptation priorities, and an income-generation mechanism through the sale of photographs.

The document outlines a three-part process for managing biocultural community protocols: intrinsic analysis of community changes, extrinsic analysis of interactions with external actors, and the subsequent evaluation and revision of the protocol itself. It emphasizes participatory methods, such as the 'Most Significant Change' technique, to capture qualitative impacts on community wellbeing and gender roles. The guide also stresses the importance of keeping both internal community members and external stakeholders informed through diverse communication tools to maintain transparency and trust.

The briefing argues that a human rights-based approach is an essential condition for stopping biodiversity loss in an equitable manner. It recommends that the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) explicitly reference international human rights instruments, adopt a formal definition of 'human rights-based approach', and establish review mechanisms to monitor compliance. Key priorities include securing the land tenure rights of indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs), ensuring equitable governance in area-based measures, and protecting human environmental rights defenders.

The African Activists for Climate Justice (AACJ) project, implemented by a consortium including Natural Justice, Oxfam, and others, has worked in Senegal from May 2021 to December 2025 to democratize climate debate and promote inter- and intra-generational climate justice. Key achievements include the creation of six influential networks for women, youth, and local officials, the production of 18 community narratives (podcasts, videos, and comics), and the legal empowerment of communities facing extractive industries. The project has facilitated community participation in national policies such as the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and the National Adaptation Plan, while supporting legal actions and the recognition of Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) in biodiversity legislation.

The document provides a comprehensive overview of the safeguards and standards associated with Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), focusing on the UNFCCC's Cancun Agreements and other frameworks like UN-REDD, REDD+ SES, and the World Bank's FCPF. It examines the risks REDD+ poses to forest-dependent communities—such as land grabbing and displacement—and the opportunities it offers for tenure reform and gender equality. The guide emphasizes the importance of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) and full stakeholder participation, while detailing the challenges of translating high-level international principles into enforceable national laws. It also provides practical advice for communities to engage in advocacy, monitor national processes, and utilize grievance mechanisms.

The 'Three Ps' framework (Principles, Policies and laws, and Practicalities) outlines a community-centric approach to the Just Energy Transition in Africa. It argues that for a transition to be truly 'just,' it must move beyond simple decarbonization to address historical injustices, ensure energy democracy, and protect the land and human rights of local communities. The guide emphasizes the necessity of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), the implementation of community-owned renewable energy (CORE) models, and the provision of climate finance in the form of grants rather than loans to avoid further debt for Global South countries.

The document examines the critical role of community land in Senegal for family farming and pastoralism, noting that previous reform attempts—including the 1964 law on the national domain and the 2013 National Land Reform Commission (CNRF)—have remained unfinished. It highlights the risks of large-scale land acquisition and the marginalization of customary rights, proposing five key recommendations: legal recognition of community rights, strengthening the role of local authorities, establishing local land registers, ensuring gender and intergenerational equity, and adopting a multi-stakeholder participatory approach to reform.

The report identifies a systemic gap between the numerical presence of women in local decision-making bodies and their actual decision-making power, termed 'participation de façade'. This exclusion is driven by a deeply embedded 'patriarchal habitus', significant 'time poverty' due to domestic burdens, and a lack of legal literacy. While women are central to the fisheries and agricultural sectors, they are largely excluded from the governance of these resources. The study proposes a transition from passive resilience to active environmental citizenship through a three-pillar model of legal empowerment: critical legal literacy, climate conceptualization, and transformational leadership.

The authors argue that International Financial Institutions (IFIs), such as the IMF and World Bank, exercise extraordinary leverage in post-conflict states to impose neoliberal reforms that often exacerbate gendered insecurity. By introducing the concept of 'gendered circuits of violence,' the paper demonstrates how macroeconomic policies—including austerity, debt-based financialization, and extractive resource economics—disproportionately burden women and marginalized groups. The text highlights that while IFIs have adopted the rhetoric of gender equality as 'smart economics,' these efforts are often superficial and fail to address the material realities of unpaid care work and structural violence. Case studies from Ukraine, East Timor, and the Western Balkans illustrate how IFI-mandated reforms can lead to increased household debt, the erosion of social welfare, and even the incitement of physical violence against women.

The report examines the marginalization of women in the Cyprus peace process and the efforts of civil society groups, such as the Gender Advisory Team (GAT), to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325. It highlights the low political representation of women on both sides of the divide and the dominance of a masculinist lens in conflict narratives. The author details specific recommendations for governance, property, and economic rights in a potential federal state, while evaluating the limited impact of the Technical Committee on Gender Equality established in 2015.