Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Featured publications
Women’s empowerment through collective action (2020)
Comprehensive book documenting pathways through which FFPOs strengthen women’s leadership, entrepreneurship and economic empowerment.
Strengthening the role of women in agriculture and natural resource management (2023)
Practical experiences on women’s leadership, collective action and participation in natural resource governance.
Empowering producer women through peer-learning and mentorship (2023)
Demonstrates how peer learning, mentoring and exchange platforms support women entrepreneurs and leaders.
Transforming gender relations: upscaling collective action in women’s entrepreneurship (2018)
Evidence and lessons on transforming gender relations through collective enterprise development.
Content highlights
- Strengthening the role of women in agriculture and natural resource management (2023)
Promotes women’s leadership, participation in decision-making, and collective action within producer organizations. - Women’s empowerment through collective action (2020)
Shows how collective organization strengthens women’s voice, leadership and influence in governance processes. - Nominating your outstanding women in development (2020)
Highlights female leadership and recognition of women champions in rural development. - Multi-stakeholder governance strengthens sustainable livelihoods in Bosawás, Nicaragua (2014)
Illustrates how inclusive governance mechanisms can strengthen women’s participation and local development outcomes.
- Empowering women forest and farm producers: learning from the best (2023)
Practical examples of women-led enterprises and business development. - Mobilising internal finance from within forest and farm producer organisations: a case study of Shri Kheda District Self-Employed Women’s Association (2023)
Demonstrates how women’s organizations mobilize internal financial resources to strengthen enterprises. - Mobilising internal finance within a forest and farm producer organisation: a case study of the Masopo Women’s Club of Choma, Zambia (2023)
Illustrates women-led savings and finance mechanisms that support enterprise development. - Transforming gender relations: upscaling collective action in women’s entrepreneurship (2018)
Lessons on entrepreneurship, collective action and economic empowerment. - Biodiversity: a women’s business? (2018)
Explores opportunities for women-led biodiversity enterprises and market engagement.
- How information technology is empowering the women of SEWA in India (2024) Demonstrates how digital technologies improve women’s access to markets, services and information.
- How ICT is empowering women entrepreneurs in Vietnam: a case study of Tu Nhien Cooperative (2024)
Illustrates how information and communication technologies strengthen women’s entrepreneurship and business management.
- Empowering producer women through peer-learning and mentorship (2023)
Highlights mentorship and peer exchange as mechanisms for women’s empowerment. - Advancing gender equity through women producers’ exchange platform (2023)
Demonstrates the value of producer-to-producer learning networks and exchange platforms.
- Enhancing women’s diversification into tree growing for climate resilience (2020)
Demonstrates how women contribute to climate adaptation through tree-based production systems. - Gender-focused economic models of climate resilience in Madagascar (2020)
Explores women-centred approaches to resilience, income diversification and sustainability. - Q&A: Unleashing the potential of forest farmers to address climate change and biodiversity loss (2021)
Highlights the contribution of women and smallholders to climate and biodiversity goals.
Tools and training
Women’s empowerment through collective action (2020)
Practical approaches and lessons for strengthening women’s participation in FFPO governance and enterprises.
Empowering producer women through peer-learning and mentorship (2023)
Illustrates replicable mentoring and exchange approaches to strengthen women-led organizations and businesses.
The power of partnerships through training forest and farm producer organizations (2018)
Demonstrates capacity-building and peer-learning approaches that support women and producer organizations.
Supporting the indigenous Mayangna women in Nicaragua (2017)
Practical example of strengthening women’s participation in forest-based livelihoods and local development.