Resources
Breaking the Glass Ceiling - Promoting Women’s Leadership in Water Institutions
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The COVID-19 Pandemic has shed additional light on the differential impact of crisis on women, and highlighted the importance of female representation in decision making roles at the institutional and...
Unlocking the Biggest Resource We Have to Fight COVID-19 and Climate Change: Women in STEMM
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In times of the Covid-19 outbreak, social isolation is illuminating the gender gap perhaps like never before. Just count how many online “manels’’ (a panel made up only of men) you have attended...
Implementing Women, Peace and Security: Localisation in the OSCE Region
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This webinar aims to present the results of the study and will focus on and discuss one of the main findings of the WPS study, how to further develop localisation of the implementation of the women,...
In Guatemala, Investing in Indigenous Women's Economic Empowerment is Key to Building Back Better After COVID-19
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Since March 2020, Guatemala has recorded more than 600 COVID-19 deaths and over 11,000 infections. Amidst this crisis, indigenous women have continued to use their voices, knowledge and capacities to...
Gender and Climate – Scaling Impact with a Cross-Cutting Agenda
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Today, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the destructive nature of global crises without immediate resolutions. Likewise, the effects of climate change are slated to be even more devastating and f...
Three Cheers for the Power, Promise of Gender Equity in Agriculture
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We need the talents and energy of both men and women to power this sector and contribute to Jamaica's economy — an economy which must be diversified and enhanced for resilience to climate change, na...
Prioritizing Gender Equality in Post COVID-19 Tourism
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Covid-19 has had an unprecedented impact on tourism with the UNWTO anticipating a 60-80% decline in international tourism. The crisis has laid bare structural inequalities in particular gender, race a...
Op-ed: Build Back Better: Women at the Centre of Decision-Making
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world and our world view, deepening pre-existing inequalities, and exposing vulnerabilities in social, political, and economic systems. Across every sphere, from...
Learning from Cities to Advance Gender Equality
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Following the adoption of the new EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 in March, the European Union (EU) will adopt a new Gender Action Plan for external relations in 2020. In light of the COVID-19 c...
The Gender Dimension of Sustainable Development
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Despite the recent ravages of plague, war, and pestilence, we humans still excel in one unceasing task — breeding. So much so, humanity is on course to squeeze nearly double the present number of pe...
United Nations 2020: Enhancing Peace, Disarmament and the Role of Women
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A webinar to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and to highlight issues of peace, disarmament and the role of women. The webinar has a special focus on the UN Secretary-General's D...
Gender Equality in Peace and Security: The Role of Male Leadership
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Join distinguished leaders across defense, diplomacy, and civil society for a conversation on men's role in advancing gender equality in peace and security. They will discuss strategies for engaging...
How Can Extractive Sector Laws and Policies Contribute to Gender Equality?
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What do governments and international organizations mean when they say that they aim to advance gender equity in the context of natural resource governance? Many governments are making positive commi...
Women and the Energy Transition
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Across Alberta, women are leading the charge in a shift to a lower-carbon future. Whether they are industry professionals, public servants or community members, whether they are running community work...
Reports Highlight the Need for Further Consideration of Gender, Climate, and Security Linkages
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In a recent Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) paper, Elizabeth Seymour Smith, a Research Assistant with SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme, explores the intersection...
Call for RISE Grant Applications to Address Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages
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USAID has reopened the RISE Challenge in order to identify and fund the innovative application of promising or proven interventions that prevent and respond to gender-based violence across programs th...
Scope for Improvement: Linking the Women, Peace and Security Agenda to Climate Change
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Climate change can increase the risks of violent conflict, create risks to human security, and challenge conflict recovery and peacebuilding in different contexts. In many parts of the world women and...
The Women, Peace, and Security Resolutions and the Politics of Gender Expertise and Feminist Knowledge in Post-Conflict Settings
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Note: this event has been cancelled. This panel investigates the meaning and practice of gender expertise in post-conflict contexts, exploring how the Women, Peace and Security resolutions have shape...
Parliamentarians' Action for Gender Equality and Food Security as a Response to COVID-19
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This webinar will offer a unique opportunity for a transversal discussion among parliamentarians from Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, with a view to generating a reflection on their...
Local People Hold the Key to Solving Burkina Faso’s Water Challenges
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Thanks to its usually abundant rice production, the Kou River Valley has for decades been known as Burkina Faso’s granary. But then the water stopped flowing.The river is running dry, with local ex...
Sustainability for All: Gender Diversity in the Renewable Energy Industry
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The global renewable energy industry is growing at a faster rate than ever, creating more and more jobs throughout its supply chain requiring a diverse range of skills and experiences. Yet despite the...
Gender and Development in Myanmar
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Myanmar faces enormous development challenges in the midst of a rapidly changing and uncertain political and economic landscape. The European Journal of Development Research is pleased to present a sp...
Gender, Climate & Security: Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change
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Climate change is a defining threat to peace and security in the 21st century – its impacts are felt by everyone, but not equally. Gender norms and power dynamics shape how women and men of differen...
Gender Awareness: Towards a Sustainable and Just Energy Transition. Part I
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According to the United Nations, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 5 – Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls is the is the “foundation of a peaceful, prosperous and...
Why Gender Responsiveness is Crucial for Equitable, Effective and Efficient Climate Finance
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Women all over the world suffer from the impacts of climate change. They are often more severely affected by climate change impacts as they aggravate existing gender inequalities. In 2018, world hung...
Why Gender Responsiveness is Crucial for Equitable, Effective and Efficient Climate Finance
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Women all over the world suffer from the impacts of climate change. They are often more severely affected by climate change impacts as they aggravate existing gender inequalities. In 2018, world hung...
Building a Better World Post-Covid with Women at the Centre
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In her address to the IIEA, Ms Mlambo-Ngcuka will discuss how governments around the world can build better, fairer societies post- COVID-19 with women and girls at the centre. The Executive Director...
Covid-19, CEDAW and Women’s Human Rights
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The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the deeply entrenched inequalities that have shaped the impact of the virus. Where there was violence, violence has increased. Where there was marginality, the...
Women Owning Woodlands: Networks for Inclusive Land Stewardship
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Women are woodland stewards around the globe. They participate in stewardship on their own property, within their local community, or on shared public lands. When looking at woodland owners, researche...
GPS Webinar: Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law: A Focus on WPS-CEDAW Synergies by Dr Catherine O'Rourke
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Laws and norms that focus on women’s lives in conflict have proliferated across the regimes of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law and the Unit...