Transcript Gender Day - interim presentation

GENDER
and
Sustainable Development
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
In every region of the world, women and men have unique relationships with, dependencies
upon, and expertise regarding their environments.
Gender equality has been recognized as a critical crosscutting issue in major multilateral
environmental agreements for more than 20 years. In 1992, Agenda 21 set the stage, noting in
Chapter 24: “Women have considerable knowledge and experience in managing and
conserving natural resources.”
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Convention on Biological
Diversity
Preamble:
“Recognizing also the vital role that
women play in the conservation and
sustainable use of biological diversity and
affirming the need for the full
participation of women at all levels of
policy-making and implementation for
biological diversity conservation,”
Prologue:
United Nations
Convention to Combat
Desertification
“Stressing the important role played
by women in regions affected by
desertification and/or drought,
particularly in rural areas of developing
countries, and the importance of
ensuring the full participation of
both men and women at all levels in
programmes to combat desertification
and mitigate the effects of drought.”
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A Look Ahead to Achieving Agenda 2030 Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s
Empowerment in the Face of
Environmental Change
SESSION ONE
11:00 - 12:30
Filling in the Blanks: Building the Evidence-base on Gender and Environmental
Sustainability
Speakers:
•UNEP – Jacqueline McGlade, Chief Scientist and Director, Division of Early Warning and
Assessement – UNEP’s Global Gender and Environment Outlook (GGEO)
•IUCN – Lorena Aguilar, Senior Gender Advisor – Phase 2 of IUCN’s Environment and
Gender Index
•CIFOR – Amy Duchelle, Scientist – findings from a global comparative study on REDD+
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.@unredd Study: Gender gaps affect sharing of benefits &
burdens @RioPavilion @CIFOR #COP21
SESSION TWO
13:15 - 14:35
Focusing on Results: Bringing Forward Policy Actions and Sharing Experiences
from the Field on Gender and Land Rights
Speakers:
•UNCCD – Wagaki Wischnewski, Gender Focal Point - recent global study on the measures
to achieve gender equity in drylands areas
•Fondo Mujeres del Sur – Mariela Puga, Executive Director - key insights of a Peasant
Women organization in Argentina on land rights and strategies to address climate change
•Fondo Acción Urgente –Tatiana Cordero, Executive Director - work on women and el
Buen Vivir
Ensuring women and men have equal rights to
access, ownership and control over land and other
forms of property is included as a target in three of
the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Target 1.4
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved
nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Target 2.3
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women
and girls
Target 5a
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#COP21
SESSION THREE
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Is adaptation to #climatechange gender
neutral? Come
to #GenderDay @RioPavilion #COP21 to
find out. @CIFOR
14:45 - 16:05
Addressing Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction through a Gender
Lens, Perspectives from the Field
Speakers:
•CBD Secretariat – Sakhile Koketso, Programme Officer – Global overview of
implementation of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and
disaster risk reduction from a gender perspective
•CIFOR – Houria Djoudi, Scientist – Research findings on climate adaptation in Mali &
Burkina Faso
•Action Aid Bangladesh, All India Women’s Conference, NAACP, Huairou
Commission – project-level experiences from disaster risk reduction initiatives in
different parts of the world with links to climate adaptation
“Poverty and inequality shape women’s and men’s
vulnerability to disaster and the impacts of climate
change, and their capacity to cope and recover in the
post-disaster period.
Since women and men are affected differently by
disaster and climate change, their different
vulnerabilities and capacities must be analysed, and
their gender-specific
concerns
and
priorities
addressed.”
~ Oxfam 2010
Statistics on Gender, Disasters and Climate
Change (UNDP 2010)
During the 1991 cyclone disaster in Bangladesh, 90% of the 14,000 fatalities
were women (Ikeda, 1995)
Women, boys and girls are more than 14 times more likely than men to
die during disasters (Peterson, 2007)
The majority of victims in Hurricane Katrina were African- American
women and their children, a group likely to be poor, lack health care and
earn low wages (Gault et al, 2005; Williams et al, 2006)
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SESSION FOUR
16:15 - 17:35
Exploring Synergies in the Rio Conventions to Support Achievement of the SDGs
Panelists:
•UNCCD Gender Focal Point - Wagaki Wischnewski
•UNFCCC Gender Focal Point - Fleur Newman
•CBD Gender Programme Officer - Tanya McGregor
•Women's Environment and Development Organization Program (WEDO) Program
Director/Head of Office - Eleanor Blomstrom
•Green Climate Fund, Director, Country Programming Division, Mr. Ousseynou Nakoulima
•UNDP Policy Specialist - Verania Chao
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#STANDTALL w/ @CBDNews at #Gender Day @RioPavilion #COP21
Les conséquences des
changements climatiques sont
tributaires du groupe social:
« En raison du genre, du statut
socio-économique, de
l’ethnicité ou de l’âge, certains
groupes sont plus vulnérables,
notamment parce qu’ils n’ont
pas la même capacité d’action
et d’adaptation. C’est
notamment le cas des
femmes. »
Annie Rochette- Professeure au Département des
sciences juridiques à l’UQAM et responsable de la
recherche L’intégration du genre dans la lutte aux
changements climatiques au Québec, réalisée en
partenariat avec le Réseau des Femmes en
Environnement.
Le Devoir, Nayla Naoufl, 1/12/2015
http://www.ledevoir.com/environnement/actualites-sur-lenvironnement/456704/les-femmes-a-l-avant-plan
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« Les femmes sont beaucoup plus affectées que les
hommes par ces catastrophes naturelles . »
-Annie Rochette
Par exemple, la canicule en France en 2003 a ainsi entraîné
le décès de 9510 femmes et de 5292 hommes.
Le Devoir, Nayla Naoufl, 1/12/2015
http://www.ledevoir.com/environnement/actualites-sur-lenvironnement/456704/les-femmes-a-l-avant-plan
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“Women remain underrepresented in local and high‐ level
environmental decision‐making and are underrepresented
in the workforce and management of environment‐related
institutions”
UN -The World’s Women 2015
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/downloads/Ch7_
Environment_info.pdf(p..1)
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What percentage of women hold
management positions in
the agricultural sector
in Africa?
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http://www.fao.org/climatechange/380800e86363b233f2bd2c8dd37574ff90cc86.pdf (p 30-31)
As of December 2014, what is the average share of
women who hold senior government minister
positions related to the environment in Europe?
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http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/downloads/Ch7_Environment_in
fo.pdf ( p. 1)
In developing
countries, what
percentage of all land
owners are women?
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http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i2050e/i2050e.pdf ( p. 36-37)
If women had the same access to productive resources as
men, how much could they increase yields on their farms?
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http://www.fao.org/gender/gender-home/genderwhy/key-facts/en/
http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i2050e/i2050e.pdf
(p.5)
This additional yield could reduce
the number of undernourished
people in the world by:
https://ccafs.cgiar.org/bigfacts/#theme
=climate-impactspeople&subtheme=gender
Worldwide about 925 million people are undernourished, with women accounting
for a high proportion of the chronically hungry
If the gender gap closes in agriculture, how
many people could be lifted out of hunger?
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http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/gender/docs
/FAO_FinalGender_Policy_2012.pdf ( p.3)