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Paying it Forward- Training on Climate Change in Ghana

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

My name is Patience. I am one of the women delegates, supported by the Women’s Delegate Fund at the UNFCCC negotiations. In my home country of Ghana, women constitute about 50.5% of the total population and about 30% are heads of households according to the 2000 census. They control key productive sectors particularly in agriculture and in other sectors that are vulnerable to climate change. They constitute 52% of the agriculture labor force, contribute 46% …

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WEDO heads to China for the next meeting of the UNFCCC

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

[ October 4, 2010 to October 9, 2010. October 4, 2010 to October 9, 2010. ] Tianjin, China — From Monday, 4 to Saturday, 9 October 2010, WEDO will attend the UNFCCC climate change negotiations in Tianjin, China. This is the final meeting before the COP16 in Mexico and WEDO, as part of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) will be facilitating an advocacy team to ensure that gender references remain in the negotiating text.

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