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Women play a critical role in sustaining communities and managing natural resources, but their contributions are often undervalued and neglected. Women are also more likely than men to live in poverty, and they are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and other environmental hazards, especially in developing countries. Because women tend to be more vulnerable to the impacts of natural resource degradation than men, environmental protection and green policies can help improve gender equality, with many economic and social co-benefits.
Numerous studies indicate that improving gender equality and women’s participation in the workforce can have a positive impact on economic growth. It can also enhance productivity, improve development outcomes for future generations, and increase the quality of societal policies and institutions, including more representative decision-making.
Achieving gender equality is so important that it is one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, which aims to redress the disproportionate impact on women and girls of economic, social and environmental shocks and views women as central actors, recognizing that their knowledge and collective action can improve resource productivity and encourage the sustainable use of natural resources.
Created a Post in Forestry, Gender
In the process of creating various conservation and development initiatives in the Waorani Territory, in the Amazon Basin, women and communities have provided a great contribution, thanks to their constant involvement and interest. This made it possible to create local capacities.
Created a Post in Climate Change, Gender
In this interview with Sônia Guajajara, indigenous woman leader and Executive Coordinator of the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations in the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB), Sônia discusses the important role of indigenous women in the preservation of traditional culture and the natural environment.
Created an Event in Climate Change, Gender
Created a Post in Gender
If you have 27 minutes, listen to this fascinating conversation with Caroline Criado Perez, author of "Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men."
Perez covers real-world examples of how a lack of gender-disaggregated data puts women at risk and puts women's needs behind the curtain.
Created an Opportunity in Gender
The discussion of the priorities and needs of women living in informal settlements and tenements, highlighted by COVID-19. This blog explains why women are ideally placed to map vulnerability to climate change in their community and city.
Created an Opportunity in Agriculture, Climate Change, Industry and Entrepreneurship, Gender
Created a Post in Climate Change, Gender, Natural Capital
Mangroves are key to conservation in Kenya, but Kenya's mangroves have been exploited for centuries for shipbuilding and construction materials among others. Lamu archipelago, around the northern coast of Kenya, accounts for more than half of the country's mangroves, but across the country approximately 40% of this commodity has been degraded. This is where the region's women come to the rescue to run mangrove conservation effort.
Created a Post in Gender, Waste Management
Do you have expertise as a #gender specialist and interest in working on #sustainable waste and chemicals management in developing countries? Apply by 3 June for this short-term consultancy to support the GEF ISLANDS Programme by developing a global gender action plan, monitoring framework, and associated project documents.