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Digital Dialouge on Gender, Health and Climate Change
On Thursday, WEDO Advocacy Coordinator Rachel Harris joined a panel session at the COP17 “Digital Lounge” for an event organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) to highlight the linkages between gender, health and climate change. As climate change increases the frequency of droughts, reduces agricultural output and contributes to the rise of extreme weather events, women are on the front lines of climate vulnerability. This vulnerability extends into the health sector, making women particularly vulnerable to a range of health burdens spurred by climate change.
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Gender and the Art of Implementation
WEDO at COP17
Wednesday, November 3oth
On Wednesday, the Rio Pavilion at COP17 celebrated Gender Day! As part of this, WEDO’s Andrea Quesada presented at a side event on “Gender and the Art of Implementation”, to showcase some of the work WEDO has been doing on developing gender-sensitive road maps on REDD+ in Uganda, Cameroon and Ghana, in partnership with IUCN. Click here for WEDO and IUCN’s factsheet on Gender and REDD+.
Women at COP17 Raise Their Voices!
WEDO at COP17
Tuesday, November 28th
At one of the first meetings of the Women & Gender Caucus at the COP17, participants from Africa welcomed the caucus in beautiful song to remind us of the power of women’s organizing. The message was particularly powerful as at COP17, the Women and Gender Constituency are celebrating gaining official status in the UNFCCC!
Now this is how you start a meeting:
Women Delegates Fund “Night School”
WEDO at COP17
Friday to Sunday – November 25th- 27th
In collaboration with GGCA partner, IUCN, WEDO took part in a three day night school and capacity building program for the participants of the Women Delegates Fund (WDF). The aim of the program was to assist each of the delegates to build roadmaps for implementation on gender and climate change at the national level as well as to build capacity in the negotiations. WDF Delegate Patience Damptey from Ghana said “[the night school] helped us to articulate what we have done and gave us the opportunity to move the issue of gender and climate change at the national level through specific actions.”
WEDO at COP17: Priorities, Events, Team and More!
Durban, South Africa- November 27th 2011
The final session of the 2011 UNFCCC negotiations, COP17, commences tomorrow in Durban, South Africa. At the conference, Parties must find areas of convergence in order to ensure that women, men, girls and boys can fully adapt to and mitigate the ever-more prevalent and severe impacts of climate change.
