Women make crucial contributions in agriculture and rural enterprises in drylands as farmers, animal husbandry workers and entrepreneurs. Their roles vary across

reduce their productivity and limit their contributions to agricultural production, economic growth and the well-being of their families, communities and countries.

Building ResilienceConnecting Gender and Drylands

and short-term technical interventions that fail to challenge inequitable power structures and therefore also fail to ensure optimal implementation. Gender disparities remain among the deepest and most pervasive of all inequalities and hinder the best of development efforts profoundly.

Strengthening Governance Connecting Gender and Drylands

Gender equality and gender equity are matters of fundamental human rights and social justice and a pre-condition for sustainable development, enhancing considerably the effectiveness of programs, projects and initiatives during implementation.

Empowering CommunitiesConnecting Gender and Drylands

Gender mainstreaming recognizes the diverse roles and needs of women and men within the sustainable development agenda. Rather than merely adding on women’s participation to existing strategies and programs, mainstreaming gender aims to transform unequal social and institutional structures by recognizing the promotion of gender equality as a central driving principle for development and prosperity.

Improving LivelihoodsConnecting Gender and Drylands

Women not only manage biodiversity for greater availability of food on a regular basis,

dietary diversity is available that healthy development of children require.

Securing Futures Connecting Gender and Drylands