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Gender-poverty-environment links: a
focus on the links between gender disparity, poverty and
environmental degradation is increasingly recognized as a
key strategy for improving the lives of poor women and men.
Acknowledging the ways in which relationships between the
environment, society and the economy are gendered opens
space for new approaches to poverty reduction, environmental
conservation and gender equality. The Social Development
Department (SDV) of the World Bank conducted in-depth
studies in Ethiopia and Ghana to advance understanding of
the dynamics underlying negative spirals of poverty,
environmental degradation, and gender inequality, and how to
foster a positive synergy in the sustainable development
sector e.g. energy, agriculture, natural resource
management, water, urban development, and transport. An
important component of the study design was an online
discussion within and outside World Bank on findings from
the country case studies to ground truth the potential for
wider application in other countries; and to collect and
share additional good practice cases that address
gender-environment-poverty-links from as broad a range of
countries as possible.
