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.

Tags: Civil Society Participation, Climate Change, Climate Finance, GEAR Campaign, UN Women
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GEAR- Working with UN Women and Contributing to the Achievement of its Goals

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

New York– From January 24-26, 2011 UN Women is holding its first Executive Board Meeting. Click here to read the GEAR Campaign Statement made at the meeting this afternoon.

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WEDO: Partnering on Climate Change

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

New York– WEDO, as a founding member of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) and coordinator of advocacy efforts at the UNFCCC, works closely with UN agencies, and other civil society organizations in our efforts to raise awareness on gender equality and the social dimensions of climate change. Below is an article by UNIFEM, now UN WOMEN, which highlights recent accomplishments at COP16 in Cancun–as well as a link to the Partnerships page on UN WOMEN which talks about the GGCA.

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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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