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Technical Background Documents for CSW56

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

The Commission on the Status of Women will hold the fifty-sixth session of their multi-year program, February 27th to March 9th 2012 at the United Nations in New York. The priority theme for this meeting is the Empowerment of Rural Women. Some key points of discussion will include agriculture, productive resources and financing, infrastructure, natural change resource management, climate adaptation and policies on rural development.

In preparation for 2012, UN Women in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) convened at an Expert Group Meeting…

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Advancing Gender Equality in the Green Climate Fund: Letter to UN Women

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

New York, August 17th, 2011– Last week, members of the Women and Gender Constituency sent a letter to Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General of UN Women to ask UN Women to take a more prominent advocacy role in the negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), particularly in the development of a new Green Climate Fund (GCF).

Click here to view the full letter.

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Gender equality and the Green Climate Fund

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Tokyo, Japan– The second meeting of the Transitional Committee (TC) to design the Green Climate Fund (GCF) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded yesterday in Tokyo, Japan. The Cancun Agreements, adopted at COP16 at the end of 2010, established the “Green Climate Fund” to provide assistance to developing countries. As the international community now works to design this global climate fund, WEDO and its partners are working to ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. At the regional Transitional Committee meeting in Tokyo, women and gender issues were highlighted in various ways.

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Women and Gender Constituency on Gender, Adaptation, and REDD+

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Bonn, Germany, June 17th 2011– Today, WEDO’s Rachel Harris delivered an intervention on behalf of the Women and Gender Constituency at the UNFCCC.

“Despite clear evidence of the gender differentiated impacts of climate change, especially in developing countries, vulnerability assessments and adaptation studies do not reflect such differentiation and thus limit the efficiency of such analyses for appropriate gender sensitive adaptation measures. The review of the guidelines could provide several opportunities for countries to do so. Therefore, in vulnerability assessments and adaptation studies Parties should include gender analyses and gender-related information, as relevant.”

Click here to download the full intervention…

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UN Women: New Toolkit on Civil Society Engagement

Monday, December 6th, 2010

New York, New York– The GEAR Campaign is proud to launch a ”TRANSITIONAL TOOLKIT FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS“, with recommendations on how civil society can engage with UN Women.

Created on July 2, 2010, UN Women is the result of years of advocacy by civil society. The new entity combines the mandates of the four existing UN structures for women into one new, higher level UN organization with both policy and operational functions.

The GEAR Campaign, a network of over 300 women’s, human rights and social justice groups, engaged in working to ensure that UN Women will be a coordinated, strong, and…

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