Webinar

Addressing GBV in the context of the climate-biodiversity emergency: Leveraging and strengthening enabling policy frameworks for scaled-up rights-based action

  • March 1, 2022 9:00 am
  • 91 min
RSVP Webinar

Moderated by:

  • Ali Raza Rizvi, Head, Climate Change, IUCN

Speakers:

  • Seemin Qayum, Policy Advisor, Sustainable Development, UN Women; Lucy Mulenkei, Vice President, International Indigenous Women Forum (FIMI); board member, African Indigenous Women’s Organisation (AIWO); and co-founder and co-chair, Indigenous Women Biodiversity Network (IWBN); Gillian Caldwell, Chief Climate Officer and Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID; Andrea Cruz Angón, Biodiversity and Cooperation Strategies Coordinator, Mexico Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) Angela Nakafero, Commissioner of Gender, Uganda Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development; Erin Kenny, Head of the Technical Unit and Senior Technical Adviser, Spotlight Initiative
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Synopsis

Gender-blind climate and environment-focused policies and implementation frameworks can inadvertently create conditions for heightened gender risks, including GBV, and miss creating powerful opportunities for realizing rights and resilience. In the lead-up to the 66th meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) and the resumed sessions under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), IUCN and USAID hosted diverse partners in this high-level moderated discussion amongst leading GBV and environment policy-makers, donors, and practitioners. Together, speakers explored the existing, emerging, and urgently needed policy frameworks and enabling conditions that are fundamental to facilitate collaborative rights-based action to address GBV and combat climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Sustainable Development Goals