Gender and Environment Resource Center

Knowledge, tools and promising practice for realising gender equality and environment goals, together.

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Knowledge, tools and promising practice for realising gender equality and environment goals, together.

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Climate Change is Not Gender Neutral
Learn more about how harnessing data to empower women and girls as change agents in climate action is a matter of human rights, smart resilience and adaptation, and necessary for international environmental policy agendas.
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BRAND NEW DATA

Tracking progress on women's environmental decision making
IUCN’s new data reveals incremental change: in 2020, women held 15% of top jobs as ministers of environmental sectors ― compared to 12% in 2015.
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Profiles for change: Trang Nguyen, WildAct
Meet Trang Nguyen, the Founder and Executive Director of WildAct Vietnam. Trang is leading a RISE grant-winning project and shares insights on why she is passionate about ending harassment in conservation workplaces.
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A Place to Call Her Own: Land titling and gender-based violence in South Kivu, DRC
In South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Women for Women International (WfWI) and the Innovation and Training for Development and Peace (IfdP) are working together to gather the perspectives of 138 women, as well as male and female focus groups, to change land rights’ norms, including challenging gender-based violence.
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Security for Me and My Own: Land Demarcation and Preventing Gender-Based Violence in Uganda
In eastern Uganda, where land is governed by a customary land tenure system, women experience violence when claiming land rights. Trocaire is working with the Land Equity Movement of Uganda (LEMU), and Soroti Catholic Diocese Integrated Development Organization (SOCADIDO) to respond to these challenges.
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Knowledge and action platforms​

Gender equality. Environmental sustainability.

This site houses knowledge and action platforms that are designed to fill information gaps, promote learning, inform action and share the latest news and tools from key initiatives and partnerships.

Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT)

A ten-year partnership between IUCN and USAID, AGENT increases the effectiveness of environment programming through robust gender integration and improves gender equality and women’s empowerment across environmental spheres.

Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages Center
(GBV-ENV Center)

Through AGENT and with other partners, IUCN strengthens awareness and capacities to address gender-based violence and environment linkages, critical to meeting interlinked global goals.

Environment and Gender Information (EGI)

IUCN’s Environment and Gender Information (EGI) methodology supports diverse partners to build data and analysis on a wide range of gender and environment issues.

Learning Initiative on Women’s Empowerment, Access to Finance and Sustainable Fisheries

Under AGENT, IUCN works with USAID and partners to advance evidence-based approaches to strengthening women’s empowerment, access to finance and sustainable fisheries.

Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT)

A ten-year partnership between IUCN and USAID, AGENT increases the effectiveness of environment programming through robust gender integration and improves gender equality and women’s empowerment across environmental spheres.

Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages Center
(GBV-ENV Center)

Through AGENT and with other partners, IUCN strengthens awareness and capacities to address gender-based violence and environment linkages, critical to meeting interlinked global goals.

Environment and Gender Information (EGI)

IUCN’s Environment and Gender Information (EGI) methodology supports diverse partners to build data and analysis on a wide range of gender and environment issues.

Learning Initiative on Women’s Empowerment, Access to Finance and Sustainable Fisheries

A part of its AGENT partnership, IUCN works with USAID and other partners in advancing evidence-based approaches to strengthening women’s empowerment, access to finance and sustainable fisheries through a Learning Initiative.

Explore curated resources

Knowledge and experiences inform improved action. Search though over 400 key terms in our complete catalog of curated documentation from internal and external resources. Bookmark, as new resources are updated regularly.

Discover visual data

Data is a powerful tool. IUCN curates and develops visual graphics on gender and environment issues. Click to search through the complete database of images for download and use and check back for new uploads!

Library

The knowledge and action platforms on this site are supported by a single, large library of curated resources on gender-environment topics. Explore the library – as well as our complete collection of visual data.

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