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For the last several years, WEDO has been developing partnerships with civil society organizations and governments in developing countries as part of a national Climate Change & Gender Mobilization Project to deliver real results for women on the ground. Combining awareness raising, capacity- building and advocacy at the national and local levels, the project seeks to advance gender in policy-making and activity implementation, as well as government accountability to global agreements on equality.
Last year, each main partner conducted a national gender and climate change assessment and presented the findings at WEDO’s first Gender and Climate Change Workshop, held in Dakar, Senegal. The country assessments examined the impact of climate change on women’s lives already, as well as the policy framework in which gender is or must be incorporated. The country studies also make a strong case for positioning women as leaders on climate change policies and activities. The lessons learned from this nationally focused project are integral to WEDO’s global advocacy, as well.
The focus countries for the first phase of this project are Ghana, Nepal, Trinidad-and-Tobago and Senegal. The first on-the-ground activity, a Gender and Climate Change Caravan aimed at local policies and activities, is underway this year. Stay tuned here for the first report.
In autumn 2008, WEDO also began building a partnership with organizations in Suriname, and a country assessment will be completed in the coming months.
Find out more about our national climate change work:
Ghana Case Study
Nepal Case Study
Senegal Case Study
Bangladesh Case Study
Summary of 2008 National Advocacy Project Launch in Dakar, Senegal
NEW! A Resource Kit: Climate Change Connections
New York, October 15–Climate Change Connections, a comprehensive resource kit on gender, population and climate change, was launched today by the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).
The resource kit presents an overview of gender and climate change in the context of policy, finance, adaptation plans, best practices, and advocacy tools. It argues for a new convergence in thinking and practice that aligns the efforts of governments, aid organizations, and the general public, to ensure that women contribute to and benefit from equitable climate solutions.
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Realizing the Bali Action Plan: adaptation, mitigation, finance & tech with a gender perspective
Bonn, 01.06.2009… The Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA)- a network of 25 UN agencies and NGOs – partnered with Finland, Ghana, and other Parties to present lessons learned and technical recommendations in each area of the Bali Action Plan, with expert presentations from Africa, Latin America and Asia.
To view the webcast of this WEDO side event at the Bonn Climate Change talks, please click here.
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Gender, Climate Change & Human Security
Commissioned by the Greek chairmanship (2007-2008) of the Human Security Network, this study explores the interlinkages between gender, climate change and human security. Authors: Irene Dankelman, Khurshid Alam, Wahida Bashar Ahmed, Yacine Diagne Gueye, Naureen Fatema and Rose Mensah-Kutin. (2008)
Gender, Climate Change & Human Security (pdf)
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New Case Study! Gender and Climate Change in Nepal
Nepal, like many other places around the earth, is feeling the deleterious impact of human-caused climate change—there is an increasing threat of food insecurity, of glacial lake outburst floods, and of harm to Nepal’s richly diverse forests.
A new Case Study: Gender and Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas of Nepal commissioned by WEDO and produced by Brigitte Leduc, Arun Shrestha, and Basundhara Bhattarai of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) accomplishes three things: it relays basic information about climate change in Nepal, it examines the conditions under which the women in Nepal live, and…
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New Case Study: Gender and Climate Change Finance, Philippines
What do women’s rights have to do with climate finance? Investing in women is one of the most effective ways to advance sustainable development and fight climate change devastation. Taking an in-depth look at the Philippines, WEDO explores the gender dimensions of climate finance at the national level in our latest publication Gender and Climate Change Finance: A Case Study from the Philippines.
Existing conditions and discrimination determine who is most impacted by “natural” disasters. Women are the majority of the 1.3 billion people living in the deepest poverty worldwide, and people in poverty bear the brunt of climate change…
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