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August 2011Dear reader,
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Activities of the Gender and Climate Change Community
News on Gender and Climate Change
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News from GenderCCNew GenderCC Coordinator We are happy to introduce a new member of the Gender CC Team to the International Secretariat in Berlin. Bettina Peifer, a political scientist with long-standing experience in environmental policies with a focus on water and gender issues, now leads the GenderCC International Secretariat, having commenced the position at the beginning of August. We warmly welcome her in the gender and climate change community. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact her (b.peifer[at]gendercc.net). News from the GenderCC project in the Pacific In collaboration with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Centre for Global Change (CGC) in Bangladesh, GenderCC is undertaking the project “Gender equality in adaptation and low carbon development”, which is promoting gender mainstreaming in climate change and energy in Bangladesh and in all of the small island developing states in the Pacific. Here, the project draws on the experiences learnt from the Training of Trainers, which was convened in the SPC´s Suva Office (Fiji) from 16-18 May (Link to our website). Members of the project team are also collecting energy data for an energy balance for each country, and will review some of the climate change and energy policies and projects and linkages to gender. Gender mainstreaming workshops have already been held in Niue, Kiribati and Tuvalu, with further workshops to be held in Nauru and the Cook Islands.
For more information about the project and the workshops, please visit our homepage. Gender @ the UNFCCCGenderCC at the SB 34 In June 2011, GenderCC was present with a small group of dedicated and active women at this year’s 34th meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies in Bonn. In addition to following the daily business of the negotiations, GenderCC, in cooperation with Boell Foundation, WECF, WEDO and others, prepared a submission to the Transitional Committee (TC) on how to include gender considerations in the Committee’s work to design the Green Climate Fund. To get further information on this topic you can read the article by Liane Schalatek “Engendering the Green Climate Fund – An Opportunity for Best Practices". She addresses the lack of gender considerations in different financing mechanisms and reflects on the opportunities for the new Green Climate Fund to do better.
Additionally, GenderCC Focal Point for South-East Asia, Sharmind Neelormi from Bangladesh, organized this years GenderCC side event on “Financing gender sensitive adaptation in developing countries: problems and prospects”. Gotelind Alber (GenderCC International Secretariat), representing the Women Constituency at the SBI workshop stakeholder participation, proposed the establishment of a Gender Advisory Group to respond to the need for more gender expertise in the UN process.
Various interventions were held by members of the Women and Gender Constituency during the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) opening session and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) closing sessions. In her SBSTA intervention, Ulrike Roehr from LIFE e.V. called for a paradigm shift in REDD, and emphasized the importance of putting forest people in the centre of efforts rather than simply counting tons of carbon. For further information on the side event, please visit our website.
Moreover, the submission to the TC and the different interventions are available for download at our website. GIZ Workshop on gender and mitigation Further events occurring alongside the SB 34 included a workshop on gender and mitigation organised by the German Development Agency GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) on 10 June. Practical experiences from Stacy Alboher (UNDP) on global financing mechanisms was presented, Francois Rogers and Lorena Aguilar (Gender Sensitive Climate Action Plans) addressed gender and mitigation at the national level, and Agnes Oztelberger (Care Austria) spoke about gender and mitigation at the local level and the experience of working with the REDD mechanisms in Tanzania.
After the overview of practical experiences, a keynote statement was given by Ulrike Roehr (representing GenderCC) addressing the challenges, ideas and opportunities of mainstreaming gender into mitigation processes. During the following fish bowl debate, the audience discussed different challenges and opportunities that have arisen with respect to gender aspects and mitigation initiatives.
You can download the minutes of the meeting here. Update on gender and financing Financing is one of the hot topics at this year's climate talks. To keep you up to date with what is happening in the area of gender and financing, GenderCC has updated its website.
You can find the latest news about gender and the Green Climate Fund, as well as general updates on the climate funds and climate change-related funding in the Important Information Infobox under Gender@UNFCCC/Topics/Financing.
Click here to read more about the Climate Investment Fund and the Adaptation Fund or about Gender and the Green Climate Fund. Activities of the Gender and Climate Change CommunityGender and climate change - workshop and discussion In Brighton, UK, on 4 July 2011, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in collaboration with Oxfam, Plan UK and the Gender and Development Network, hosted a plenary discussion and workshop titled “Beyond Women and Girls' Vulnerability: a debate on gender, climate change and disaster risk reduction”.
The workshop aimed at launching new publications of the three organisations: (1) “The Cutting Edge on Gender and Climate Change”, which will be released by the end of September, (2) “Weathering the storm. Adolescent girls and climate change”, and (3) “Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction”. The launch was follwed by a panel discussion, Lorena Aguilar (Global Senior Gender Advisor, IUCN), Irene Dankelman (Lecturer at Radbound University, Nijmegen, Netherlands and Consultant) and Ulike Röhr (co-founder of GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice and head of genanet), discussed the questions of how to move beyond seeing women and girls only as “vulnerable” to the effects of climate change, how Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) can support women’s and girls’ empowerment and how we can work together to ensure a global and local system that benefits both women and men.
The purpose of this event was to generate an informed discussion relating to gender, climate change and disasters, and to find answers on how we can, collectively and as individual organisations, move forwards to address these important issues and concerns.
To get more information on the publications please click here. Declaration of young feminists GenderCC signed a declaration of young feminists from Latin America and the Caribbean, who gathered on March 2011 in Montevideo, Uruguay, for a Regional Consultation and Training Institute on Gender, Economic and Ecological Justice. This event was set up by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and the Gender Education Office (GEO) of the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE). During the event, the Declaration of Young Feminist Activists was drafted. Through this declaration on gender, economic and ecological justice, the young feminists: Recognize the failure of the prevailing growth and development models, driven by the invisible hand of the market that the majority of their governments practice and promote.
In their opinion, these are hetero-normative, racist and colonialist models that have economic consequences including labour discrimination and lack of access to both social security and quality education for persons of African descent, indigenous people, migrants, homosexuals, lesbians, transgender and intersex persons. The systemic crises in their region is happening in a wider context of deep disparity between the global North and South, based on a historically unfair international division of labour and reflected in the sexual division of labour of the global care economy.
To sign this declaration, please send your name and position, the full name of your organisation, and your contact details to email info[at]dawnnet.org or noelene[at]dawnnet.org. Gender in European countries climate policy LIFE/genanet – Focal point for Gender, Environment and Sustainability, in collaboration with the Belgian organization Milieu Ltd, are carrying out a research study on behalf of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) aiming at analysing the implementation of Chapter K “Women and Environment” of the Beijing Platform for Action within the 27 EU member states. The focus lies on the subject of climate protection, and particularly on policies in the energy and transport sectors. The Danish government would like to use the findings of the study in their EU Council Presidency (first half of 2012), and places great importance on data and indicators of women's participation in decision-making positions and in education relevant for climate policy. Additional emphasis is placed by EIGE on the analysis of mainstreaming gender into climate policies within the 27 member states.
To read more, click here. Women Excluded from climate change projects in Africa By: Kristin Palitza (modified)
Click here to read the whole article. Changes in Nigiria for women farmers Nigeria is planning a programme to empower women farmers, as initiated by a workshop held in Kaduna.
Click here to read more on women farmers in Nigeria. Gender matters in forests management At the recent Poverty and Environment Network (PEN) Conference in London, “Counting on the Environment”, some interesting results were presented on the gender differentiation of roles related to rural livelihoods. By aggregating global data from different long-term studies of forest proximate communities in 25 countries, representing more than 8,000 households, it was possible to determine just who does what in contributing to the family’s well-being and what value forest products represent in the livelihood strategies of local people.
Find more information on women and forest here. News on Gender and Climate Change
Who is Who at GenderCCKoin Etuati currently works as Project Officer in the GenderCC project “Gender in Adaptation and Low Carbon Development”. This project was initiated to create awareness about climate change and build capacity in community-based organisation in Bangladesh and Pacific and is funded in the framework of the International Climate Initiave of the German Government. Koin focuses her work mainly on women from smaller island developing states of the Pacific region. One of Koin's priorities is to collect data on energy and low carbon development when visiting these regions.
Koin presently works with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) (LINK), which has its headquarters in Noumea, New Caledonia. The SPC has six technical divisions organized under key development outcome areas: sustainable natural resource management; sustainable human and social development; and sustainable economic development, where the division includes programs for energy, transport and ICT. She currently holds the position of Energy Assistant in the Energy Program and her work in the area of gender and policy falls under the Framework for Action on Energy Security in the Pacific (FAESP). Koin’s additional responsibilities include capacity development, planning policy and regulatory frameworks, and developing access to affordable energy and efficient and productive uses of energy. Most of her activities are directed at assisting the delivery of the Energy Program to the SPC member countries.
Koin is very interested in working with other women from other parts of the world who are also working in climate change mitigation, and is particularly interested in what can be done at the national level to raise awareness about climate change and promote both adaptation and mitigation.
If you are interested in the current project, please visit the National Activities on our website - Bangladesh and Pacific Island Countries . Publications
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