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   Women, Wives and Land Rights in Africa: Situating Gender Beyond the Household in the Debate Over Land Policy and Changing Tenure Systems

   January, 2002

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Forest Tenure

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Investments

   land reform

   land

   households

   tenure insecurity
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   Tackling gender issues in sustainable land management

   Training Resources & Tools

   January, 2002

   Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Latin America and the Caribbean, Nicaragua, Southern Asia, India

   Land & Gender

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   poverty

   land management

   sustainable land management

   land

   land tenure

   women

   This toolkit provides a framework for main-streaming gender in rural development activities.It addresses the lack of conceptual and practical tools in the area of sustainable land management. Its modular design allows for individual approaches and targets development staff at the project and programme levels, with the aim of helping them to find practical ways of dealing with gender issues in rural development activities.

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   Child’s play? Involving young people in urban planning and environmental management

   January, 2002

   Urban Tenure

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   environment

   urban planning

   youth

   How can young people be involved in creating more livable cities? Can the noble participation principles set forth in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Agenda 21 of the Earth Summit, and Habitat II be realised? What is being done to help young people, especially children in difficult circumstances, to get their voices heard by policy-makers?

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   Breaking new ground: mining, minerals, and sustainable development

   January, 2002

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   development

   mining

   sustainable development

   environment

   extractive industries

   This final report presents the findings of the two year IIED MMSD [minerals, mining and sustainable development] project sponsored by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). It outlines in detail the MMSD multistakeholder process - which included regional patnerships, national projects, global workshops and a range of commissioned research, presentations and bulletins - before presenting a detailed analysis of the sector through the many stages of minerals and metals exploration, production, use, reuse, recycling, and final disposal.