Stakeholder: Community-Based Organisations

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

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.

Resilient, Inclusive & Sustainable Environments (RISE) Challenge Annual Report 2021

RISE Challenge Annual Report presents learning and achievements of grantee organisations on how cross-sector partnerships are developing capacities and changing policy and practice in diverse contexts.
  • | 2021

Learning from practice: Community mobilization to prevent violence against women and girls

Lessons from civil society organisations on community mobilisation to end violence against women and girls
  • | 2021

Forest tenure pathways to gender equality: A practitioner’s guide

A practitioner’s guide that explains how to promote gender-responsive forest tenure reform in community- based forest regimes.
  • | 2020

Profiles for change: Lola Cabnal, Ak’Tenamit

Hear from Lola Cabnal, Asociación Ak’ Tenamit, about the intrinsic links Indigenous women have with Mother Earth – and how gender-based violence disrupts dignity, safety and agency at different levels, including in the defense of the environment.

Worthy of dignity and safety

In the first-ever IUCN World Conservation Congress thematic session focused on understanding and addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in relation to environmental issues and threats such as climate change, member organizations discussed the steps they are taking to safeguard staff, partners and beneficiaries; tackle discriminatory norms that allow for or employ violence; and cooperate across sectors to better advance rights-based gender-responsive programming and results.

Protecting people and biodiversity: Addressing gender-based violence (GBV) and conservation links

In Kenya and Peru, IUCN Members are working with local partners through the USAID Resilient, Inclusive & Sustainable Environments (RISE) Challenge to address GBV in environment-related programming. See a short story on how Conservation International, PROMSEX, Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association, Fauna & Flora International, and others are taking action to protect people and biodiversity.

Profiles for change: Amelia Arreguín, Women’s Caucus of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

See this profile on Amelia Arreguín, an activist from Mexico working in various advocacy spheres on women's and girl's human rights across the environment sector, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Women's Caucus.

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.
  • | 2021

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