Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow: International Women's Day on March 8, 2022!
March 01, 2022.
On the occasion of International Women's Day celebrated under the motto Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow on Tuesday March 8, 2022, ZEF introduces its work on Gender, i.e. its Gender Group.
ZEF's Gender Group:
- The ZEF Gender Group aims to strengthen gender-sensitive research at ZEF and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration on gender issues among ZEF researchers. Read more here.
ZEF's Gender Group latest Blog post:
- Why rural development cannot happen whilst Gender-based violence remains endemic across the world by Tina Beuchelt, Dennis Aviles, and Emily Brown (March 7, 2022)
- (In German) Warum ländliche Entwicklung nicht möglich ist, solange geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt überall auf der Welt existiert von Tina Beuchelt, Dennis Aviles und Emily Brown (8. März, 2022)
Upcoming virtual event on Gender:
- External event by the City of Bonn: Closing the Climate Gap: How Gender Equality is Key to our Climate Future on Friday, 11 March 11 2022, 6 – 7.30 pm (CET), zoom (language: English, no translation available). Among the speakers: ZEF senior researcher Dennis Aviles. More information on the event here.
[March 21, ed.:] The event has been recorded and you can watch it here.
Past events by ZEF's Gender Group:
- Workshop 'Gender in ZEF: sharing concepts and insights in development research' (May 27-28, 2021). More information here
- Women, Voice and Power: How transformative feminist leadership is challenging inequalities and the root causes of extreme vulnerability. Talk by Emily Brown on January 27, 2022 | 13:30 h - 14:30 h. Read more here.
- Gender-based Violence and Rural Development Outcomes. Gender Workshop on November 25, 2021 | 16:00 h - 18:00 h. Read more here and watch the videos here: https://bit.ly/ZEFGG-Event
News about ZEF's Gender-related work:
- ZEF junior researcher Hina Amber from Pakistan selected for grant by IGC of the London School of Economics and Political Science (February 10, 2022), see and read more here.
- 17 Nigerien women to promote 17 SDGs: CSDAC students win grant for training young Nigerien women in advocacy and digital campaigning (February 21. 2022), read more here.
Videos of ZEF's Gender Group's activities:
- Workshop on Gender-based Violence and Rural Development Outcomes (November 25, 2021, more information here)
# https://bit.ly/ZEFGG-Event Workshop Gender in ZEF (May 27-28, 2021, more information here) (videos listed in chronological order of presentation)
# Sundus Saleemi: Empowerment of Women and Girls in Rural Pakistan: Migration, Decision-making and consciousness
# Madiha Hussain: Challenges and opportunities for the inclusion of women in politics
# Maryoriet Rosales Salgado: The stay-at-home Paradox; Urban narratives of domestic violence during covid-19
# Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg: Gender in Sustainable Development: Trends, opportunities & praxis
# Jun.-Prof. Lisa Biber-Freudenberger: Gender Perspectives in Land Use Research
# Dr. Tina Beuchelt: Designing and Implementing Gender-Sensitive Research Projects
# Dr. Anastasiya Shtaltovna: Comparison and Reflection on ethnographic Fieldwork by two female researchers in Asia
# Sofia Saleem: Curriculum and Gender Relations in Secondary School Education in Pakistan
# Oyewole S. Oginni: The representation of self and the others in overlapping displacement context
# Emily Injete Amondo: Gender gap in health outcomes among working age individuals: Do weather effects play a role?
# Hina Amber: Participation by necessity: female labor force cohort analysis in Pakistan
# Mekdim Dereje Regassa: Intergenerational mobility: Difference in the effect of mothers and fathers on the educational and occupational attainment of their children
Selection of recent ZEF publications on Gender:
(in chronological order by date of publication)
Blog posts:
March 7, 2022: Why rural development cannot happen whilst Gender-based violence remains endemic across the world
April 29, 2020: Gender inequalities show and deepen in times of pandemic
Scientific publications:
Avilés Irahola D.L. 2020. The concept of “Buen Vivir” from a decolonial feminist perspective (in Radical Ecological Democracy, see: https://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/decolonial-feminism-and-buen-vivir/)
Munajed, D. A. 2020. An Intersectional Analysis of Syrian Women’s Participation in Civil Society in the Post-2011 Context. Middle East - Topics & Arguments, Vol. 14, July 2020, pp. 103-16, doi:10.17192/meta.2020.14.8252
Beuchelt, T.D. and S. Nischalke. 2018. Adding a gender lens in quantitative development research on food and non-food biomass production: A guide for sex-disaggregated data collection. ZEF Working Papers No. 170, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, Germany. (Open Access)
Nischalke, S.M., Abebe, M., Assefa, B., Keding, G.B., Kriesemer, S.K., Randrianarison, N., and T.D. Beuchelt. 2018. Gender challenges in horticultural research in Ethiopia and Madagascar. Acta Hortic. 1205, 137-146. DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2018.1205.16.
Gutierrez-Montes, I., Arguedas, M., Ramirez-Aguero, F., Mercado, L., & Sellare, J. (2018). Contributing to the construction of a framework for improved gender integration into climate-smart agriculture projects monitoring and evaluation: MAP-Norway experience. Climatic Change, 158, 93–106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2231-1
Nischalke, S.M., Abebe, M., Assefa Wondimagegnhu, B., Kriesemer, S.K., and T.D. Beuchelt. 2017. Forgotten Forests? Food Potential of Ancient Coffee Forests and Agroforestry Systems in the Southwestern Ethiopian Mountains, Seen Through a Gender Lens. Mountain Research and Development. Vol 37 (3), 254-262. Doi: 0.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-16-00096.1 (open access).
Contact ZEF's Gender Group:
Dennis Aviles and Tina Beuchelt