Gender-poverty-environment links: afocus on the links between gender disparity, poverty andenvironmental degradation is increasingly recognized as akey strategy for improving the lives of poor women and men.Acknowledging the ways in which relationships between theenvironment, society and the economy are gendered opensspace for new approaches to poverty reduction, environmentalconservation and gender equality. The Social DevelopmentDepartment (SDV) of the World Bank conducted in-depthstudies in Ethiopia and Ghana to advance understanding ofthe dynamics underlying negative spirals of poverty,environmental degradation, and gender inequality, and how tofoster a positive synergy in the sustainable developmentsector e.g. energy, agriculture, natural resourcemanagement, water, urban development, and transport. Animportant component of the study design was an onlinediscussion within and outside World Bank on findings fromthe country case studies to ground truth the potential forwider application in other countries; and to collect andshare additional good practice cases that addressgender-environment-poverty-links from as broad a range ofcountries as possible.
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