Gender mainstreaming is the public policy concept of assessing the different implications for women and men of any planned policy action, including legislation and programmes, in all areas and levels. Mainstreaming essentially offers a pluralistic approach that values the diversity among both men and women.
Manual on Participatory Planning, Technology and Knowledge Transfer of Eco-Village Development (EVD) in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Published by the Eco-Village Development Project Partners: INFORSE, INFORSE-South Asia, INSEDA in India, CRT/N in Nepal, IDEA in Sri Lanka, Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh, CAN-South Asia and DIB (project coordinator) in Denmark.
132 pages. 2018 December. Available: English, Hindi, Nepali, Bangla, and Sinhala.
The webinar, organized by UNEP DTU Partnership, familiarized the participants with the relevance of gender issues in relation to climate change adaptation and mitigation, the participants also explored the relationship between gender and climate in the Sustainable Development Goals.
During this webinar, the CTCN Knowledge and Communications Manager Karina Larsen shared successful examples of gender mainstreaming in climate technology processes.
The recorded webinar here:
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Tanzania Renewable Energy Association (TAREA), formerly TASEA (Tanzania Solar Energy Association) is a non-profit making, non-governmental Organization established in 2000 with a mission to promote and advocate the increased use of Renewable Energy by developing an effective network of members and stakeholders, emphasizing the need for quality and best practice throughout the sector. TAREA brings together actors to promote the accessibility and use of renewable energies in Tanzania Mainland.
The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2009, the WGC now consists of 27 women’s and environmental civil society organizations, who are working to ensure that women’s voices are heard and their rights prioritized in the fight against climate change.
Provides simple tools and practical advice on how to take a gender-sensitive approach to planning and implementing adaptation projects and programmes regardless of context. A useful reference for any development practitioner or policymaker working in this field. Gender mainstreaming in Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) projects supports the vigorous and sustained participation of both women and men in all project aspects because successful projects require the participation, knowledge, and skills of all community members.
Women and men, owning to their gendered responsibilities, possess unique knowledge sets about forest resources. This knowledge can be applied to achieving successful sustainable forest management. Accrediting this unique knowledge provides both legitimate recognition of their engagement in decision-making processes and equitable share of benefits.
This paper, part of the Both ENDS Working Paper Series, synthesises and summarises the main findings of the collaborative project Effective gender mainstreaming in water management for sustainable livelihoods: From guidelines to practice (2005). This project sought to examine a widely perceived gap between the words and actions of water management policies on the issue of gender.
Although women and girls in developing countries disproportionately experience the negative impacts of climate change, climate finance funds do not meaningfully integrate gender dimensions into their policies or programmes. This research report on gender in global finance mechanisms examines the integration of gender issues into the policies and investments of two climate funds and two non-climate funds, identifying practices that could ‘work for women’ in climate change financing.