On 31 March 2022 (14:30-16:00 CET), the ICA Gender Equality Committee (GEC) is to how the webinar "Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow." 

The webinar will be moderated by the GEC's chairperson Ms. María Eugenia Pérez Zea and will proceed alongside the following two segments:

Perspectives of Partners in International Development

Speakers will share what their organisation does/could do to support women in leading the fight against climate change. Perspectives would focus on accelerating gender equity through policies and programmes that create a level-playing field for cooperatives.

• Sascha Gabizon - Executive Director, Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF)
• Sonia Dias - Waste Specialist, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)

Interventions by the GEC Regional Representatives

Representatives will share reflections and opinions on how to build a sustainable future based on gender equity that simultaneously considers the interconnectedness amounts women's rights, gender equality, and climate justice.

• Esther Gicheru - GEC Executive Committee member from Africa
• Xiomara Nunez de Céspedes - GEC Vicepresident, member from the Americas
• Chitose Arai - GEC Executive Committee member from Asia-Pacific
• GEC Executive Committee member from Europe