Engaging Men and Boys: Addressing Traditional Barriers

Profiles for Change – Reama Naco and Ulai Baya

In Fiji, Reama Naco and Ulai Baya have been instrumental in the development of the first-ever government-supported Feedback, Grievance, and Redress Mechanism addressing gender-based risks (FGRM+) within a national Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) program. Hear from them on why GBV is important in climate action.

Men, Masculinities & Climate Change: A Discussion Paper

This paper aims to establish a rationale for understanding male roles in climate change to identify opportunities to engage them as agents of positive change, alongside women and girls, and further strengthen the call for social, economic and environmental justice for all.
  • | 2021

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.

Strengthening safeguards: strategies for addressing gender-based violence in environmental projects

This tool provides an array of specific interventions that environment programs, donors and practitioners could consider to strengthen attention to addressing GBV across environment-related contexts.
  • | 2021

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.

Increasing Women’s Participation in Community Resources Boards in Zambia: Outcomes and lessons learned from the election process

This USAID report details the experience and positive results of a recent pilot to increase women’s representation in local Community Resources Boards in Zambia, which are responsible for local governance of natural resources, including the strategies used and the outcomes in the election results, and lessons learned.
  • | 2020

Increasing Women’s Participation in Community Natural Resource Governance in Zambia

This USAID brief shares the experience and positive results of a recent pilot to increase women’s representation in local Community Resources Boards in Zambia, which are responsible for local governance of natural resources. The brief details the strategies implemented, outcomes, and lessons learned.
  • | 2020

AGENT Webinar: Gender Based-Violence and Environment Linkages – From knowledge to action, addressing gender-based violence in conservation

Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT), a partnership between USAID and IUCN, hosted this webinar event on International Human Rights Day to reflect on the end of this year's 16 Days Campaign to End Violence Against Women Campaign, as well as welcome these four new grantees from Guatemala, Kenya, Peru, and Vietnam

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