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NEW PUBLICATION: Governing Climate Funds: What Will Work for Women?

Friday, September 9th, 2011

New York, September 9th 2011– WEDO is proud to present a new joint publication with Gender Action and Oxfam: “Governing Climate Funds: What Will Work for Women?”

As the international community mobilizes in response to global climatic changes, climate funds must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Women and girls, disproportionately vulnerable to negative climate change impacts in developing countries, have largely been excluded from climate change finance policies and programmes. This report examines four funds –climate funds and non-climate funds, to draw out the lessons for gender integration in global finance mechanisms. Women and girls must not only be included in adaptive and mitigative activities, but also recognized as agents of change who are essential to the success of climate change interventions.

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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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Posted in Climate Finance, Library |

New Report: Gender-Responsive Strategies on Climate Change: recent progress and ways forward for donors

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

New York, July 22nd, 2011– Gender equality is an important pre-condition for successful climate change adaptation, and transition to low-carbon alternatives in developing countries. In order for this transition to be effective, climate change adaptation and low-carbon efforts need to be gender-responsive taking into account the specific needs of men and women and the gendered inequalities that may compound the impacts of climate change. New report by Agnes Otzelberger of CARE. “Gender-responsive strategies on climate change: Progress and ways forward for donors”

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Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

July 19, 2011–Original article published by IUCN

By Ms Kanwal Ahluwalia, Gender Equality Advisor, Plan UK

Plan International’s Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change highlights the need to better integrate the specific needs of adolescent girls in climate change and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.

The findings presented in the report are based on interviews with girls involved in Plan International’s programmes in Ethiopia and Bangladesh. We were particularly keen to hear stories from girls themselves in relation to how climate change is impacting on their lives and what they feel that policy makers should do differently.…

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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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Posted in Civil Society Participation, Climate Finance, GGCA, Library, News, UNFCCC |