The Joint Project “Promoting Gender-Responsive Approaches to Natural Resource Management for Peace” was the first pilot project established by the global Joint Programme on Women, Natural Resources and Peace, which aims to promote natural resource-based interventions as a tool for women’s political and economic empowerment in peacebuilding contexts.
The pilot project, which built on interventions conducted under the UN Development Programmes’s Community Security and Stabilization Programme (C2SP), started in October 2016 and ended in October 2018. Implemented in the locality of Al Rahad in North Kordofan State, Sudan, a community beset by climate-related environmental degradation and increasing conflicts over natural resources, the project undertook targeted interventions to ensure that women from all groups were supported to exercise their agency in local planning and decision-making processes governing the use of natural resources and to strengthen their role in the prevention and resolution of natural resource-based conflicts.
This project was supported by the Government of Finland and jointly managed and implemented by the Sudan country offices of UN Development Programme, UN Environment Programme, and UN Women. This final report, which was published in April 2019, provides key results, main lessons learned, project activities, and case studies of the pilot project in Sudan.
