Regions: Asia and the Pacific

Samoa: Strengthening Protection, Gender and Inclusion in Disaster Law

The Samoa Red Cross Society (SRCS) partnered with UNFPA to train national relief agencies, councils and ministries on identifying and responding to GBV during crises. Practitioners can draw inspiration from these approaches by focusing on strengthening strategies and training to improve policies and plans for GBV prevention and response measures.
Brief

Un mar de oportunidades: Avance de las dimensiones de género en la pesca

Esta guía resume la investigación sobre la intersección entre el género y la pesca de captura, explorando las formas en que la pesca ofrece importantes puntos de entrada para mejorar la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento económico de las mujeres, al tiempo que contribuye a intervenciones más eficaces y resultados más sostenibles.
Guide

Climate Change and Gender-Based Violence: What are the Risks?

The Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) Helpdesk has produced this introductory learning brief on the links between GBV and climate change as a introduction to increase literacy for GBV actors as a first step to define interventions. The brief also presents innovative programming case studies for reducing GBV in climate-related emergencies.
Brief

Guidance on mainstreaming gender under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

This guideline provides Contracting Parties, the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and other pertinent organisations with a series of key operational and practical entry points to enhance the mainstreaming of gender equality in the convention.
Guide

Challenging gender-based violence for women’s engagement in environmental protection

Environmental protection is one area where women are generating different success stories while their engagement is obstructed by gender-based violence and unpaid care work – a view from IUCN Bangladesh.
News Article

‘A Dangerous Trajectory’: When Domestic Violence and Climate Change Converge

The impact of climate change and weather-related disasters on gender-based violence survivors and the increase of intimate partner violence in the aftermath of these events is clear. This article provides examples from the United States and Australia, including findings from IUCN publication “Gender-based violence and environment linkages: The violence of inequality”. The author highlights policy gaps in the United States and calls for gender and environment programmatic and policy and actions.
News Article

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.
Blog

AGENT Webinar: Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages – Stories and strategies for change, a spotlight conversation with the Hariyo Ban Program

In Nepal many rural women are very dependent on natural resources such as firewood, fodder, water and traditional medicines, but they are often excluded from decision-making about their forests, and sometimes have difficulty accessing the resources they need. As part of its GESI work the Hariyo Ban Program realized it needed to tackle gender-based violence in order for women to participate more fully and safely in community forest management and sharing of forest benefits.
Webinar

The Climate-Gender-Conflict Nexus

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security provides an overview of the linkages within the climate-gender-conflict nexus. It explores the climate change and conflict nexus with a gender lens, identifies gaps in frameworks, policies, knowledge and evidence, and presents best practice studies from Colombia, Sudan and Nepal. The report calls for policymakers and practitioners to invest in research and policy on the nexus to build evidence on women’s meaningful engagement for successfully addressing these challenges.
Brief

Mujeres Defensoras de los Derechos Humanos Ambientales: Enfrentarse a la violencia de género en defensa de las tierras, los recursos naturales y los derechos humanos

En el presente informe de la SRJS se examinan los desafíos diferenciados por género a los que se enfrentan las defensoras de los derechos humanos del medio ambiente, incluida la violencia de género, y se formulan recomendaciones para que la sociedad civil y los gobiernos refuercen las protecciones.
Brief

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