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- Resource guide on gender and climate change
[ www.undp.org ]
Languages: English
This resource guide aims to inform practitioners and policy makers of the linkages between gender equality and climate change and their importance in relation to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. UNDP, 2009
- Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change
[ www.undp.org ]
Languages: English
To meet the demand for improving skills in gender and climate change, and to build up a pool of trainers in different regions and countries, the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) has developed the present training manual. The purpose of presenting the concepts in this manual is to increase the capacity of policy and decision makers so that efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change are gender-sensitive. UNDP, 2009
- People-Centred Climate Change Adaptation: Integrating Gender Issues
[ ftp.fao.org ]
Languages: English
This brief explains the links between gender issues and climate change and recommends ways to integrate gender into climate change adaptation policies and activities.
- UNEP: Gender and the Environment
[ www.unep.org ]
Languages: English
UNEP is working to highlight the important role that women play in sustainable development. UNEP recognizes gender as a cross-cutting priority, and its programme of work promotes women’s participation in all environmental protection and sustainable development activities. UNEP
- Gender Perspectives: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into Climate Change Adaptation - 2008: Good Practices and Lessons Learned
[ www.unisdr.org ]
Languages: English
This publication points out the vital nexus between women’s experiences of natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and how they can come together to make whole communities strong and sustainable. It also provides inspirational case studies of grassroots women’s leadership, and of ways to support and encourage women’s full participation as citizens in risk reduction, climate change adaptation, development, and disaster preparedness. The case studies also point to practical tools for implementing gender equality and mainstreaming gender perspectives.
Request for hardcopies should be send to: isdr-gender@un.org. UNISDR, 2008
- International conference on gender and disaster risk reduction, Beijing, China, 20-22 April 2009
[ www.unisdr.org ]
Languages: English
The Conference aimed to review the progress made and challenges faced in mainstreaming gender perspectives into disaster risk reduction. Special consideration was given to issues related to climate change adaptation, poverty reduction and community resilience. Outcome document: Beijing agenda for global action on gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction [Beijing declaration for action]
- 4th Forum on Gender Equality : "Gendered dimensions of Climate change", Paris, France, 19 June 2008
[ portal.unesco.org ]
Languages: English
The 4th UNESCO Forum on Gender Equality focused on the gendered dimensions of climate change, and what UNESCO and the broader UN-system is doing to address this important issue.
- Gender dimensions in natural resource management
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
The purpose of this site is to share information emerging from SDW's work with interested organizations and individuals. It is important that development practitioners, researchers and decision-makers are not only aware of the diversity of human capital but also seek to build on people's own knowledge and abilities to support sustainable development strategies.
- UNEP Annual Report 2005 (UN Environment Program): Gender Equality is Key for the Environment
[ www.unep.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
Gender equality is now a cross-cutting priority in all UNEP activities, and the organization is systematically integrating gender perspectives into all its programme design and implementation, along with measurable goals and indicators.
- Cities, the Environment and Gender Relations (UNESCO-MOST network): An evaluation of eight years of work on the project, 2005.
[ portal.unesco.org ]
Languages: English | French
Gender sensitive strategies for managing critical urban environments in West Africa, Latin America, and in Eastern Europe...
- Online Discussion: Women and the Environment
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
From October 2004 to January 2005, WomenWatch hosted a series of online discussions on the Platform's critical areas of concern and other important issues to provide input into the review and appraisal of the Bejing Declaration and Platform for Action. All postings and background notes are available for reading as archived online discussion.
- UNIDO: Women, Industry and Environment
[ www.unido.org ]
Languages: English
This publication provides five examples how women are adversely affected by environmental issues associated with a combination of poverty and industrialization, and how they can be helped
- Gender and Food Security - Environment
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
The state of the world's environment is vital for global food security. Since the early 1980s considerable attention has been devoted to the relationship between women and the environment, and extensive efforts have been made to identify the effects of the international environmental crisis on women.
- Embracing the earth - An agenda for partnership with peasant women
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
- Environment, women and population: interrelated issues in rural development in Southeast Asia
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
Proceedings of a Round Table, held from 2 to 6 May, 1994, at the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP), Bangkok, Thailand
- DESA/DAW: "Environmental management and the mitigation of natural disasters: a gender perspective"
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
Information on an Expert Group Meeting organized by DAW in collaboration with the Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 6 - 9 November 2001
- Gender and Ergonomics (Environment and Engineering)
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
Overview of UN publications on women farmers and agricultural engineering.
- Gender Database for Agriculture and Resource Management Policies in Pacific Island Countries, RAP Publication: 1999/7
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
- CONSERVATION TILLAGE IN ZAMBIA
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
A Resource Book of Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa, 1999
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