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WEDO Congratulates 2011 SEED Award Winners
WEDO congratulates the first winner of the 2011 SEED Gender Equality Award, “Solid Waste Management and Community Mobilization Program” from Nepal, as well as the other thirty-five SEED award winners. The Gender Equality Award is funded by UN Women.
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Video: WEDO Leaders & Partners Speak at COP17
WEDO Board Chair Monique Essed Fernandes speaks about WEDO and our work on gender and climate change:
Monique Essed Fernades from Responding to Climate Change on Vimeo.
Joint Statement and Approaching Deadlines for the CSW56
Rural women bear the brunt of climate change impacts. The crucial resources of food, water, and fuel – whose collection rural women are responsible for – are being threatened by changes in temperature, precipitation rates, and natural disasters. In the face of altered rural landscapes, women, already at an economic, social, and cultural disadvantage, must take on other livelihood activities to support themselves and their families.
Climate Conversations – “Property Can’t Own Property”
Women in Cameroon have developed a vision for a gender-sensitive approach for their country’s nascent Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme.
They have put together a roadmap to ensure that women are involved in the formulation of Cameroon’s national REDD+ strategy.
The premise is that women should be given equal opportunities to learn about REDD+ initiatives, and their capacity strengthened so they can influence, participate in and benefit from the programme. The roadmap will be presented at the U.N. Climate Convention in Durban in December.
Policymakers often wrongly assume that women are involved in decisions about the management of natural resources. In Cameroon, for example, women are often excluded from both formal and informal decision-making processes.
