"Trini woman elected as UN’s Stockholm Convention President:
she's the first Caribbean national to receive the honour"

Huge congrats Keima Gardiner and good luck!

Women are central in advancing SIDS’ clean energy development

Women are a driving force for SIDS’ clean energy development and for building islands’ resilience to climate change. However, in many SIDS, they face barriers in becoming active participants in climate action. For example, rural women are largely responsible for managing household energy, and can play a major role in the adoption of clean household solutions. And are therefore, a key component of the sector's sustainability and must be fully integrated in the decisions and solutions related to the clean energy sector.

Read the article to find out more about why more women are not taking a leading role in the energy sector – and what needs to be done to address the imbalance.

Hello! Our Working Groups at the DCED (https://www.enterprise-development.org/) are currently building a pool of individual consultants and firms with expertise in the overlap between women's economic empowerment (WEE), climate change mitigation and adaptation, and just transition, for a range of upcoming and future work in the intersection of these areas.

We are seeking profiles with experience and knowledge in the following areas:
---> Topic areas: Climate change adaptation and mitigation, just transition, economic transformation towards a low-carbon economy, private sector development / support to MSMEs, strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems, women’s economic empowerment including support to women-led start-ups and MSMEs, gender sensitive employment promotion, addressing social norms, the gendered digital divide.
---> Experience: research, drafting publications for policy makers, donor and development agencies, development project implementation, policy experience.

If you or your organisation are interested in being included, please contact us via email at [email protected], including your CV, a description of your expertise in women's economic empowerment and climate change (150-200 words) and an indication of your availability for assignments. The DCED is open to a range of profiles - even if you do not meet all of the above-mentioned areas, please feel free to get in touch.

Gender equality and climate action: five lessons from the Lancet

1. Address both sex differences and gender inequalities.

2. Focus on important things rather than everything.

3. Change systems, services, and individuals and communities.

4. Measure success in a consistent and meaningful way.

5. Engage with women as consumers, producers, and innovators rather than just as beneficiaries.

Read the article to find out more!

On the 3rd of June the GGKP Gender Expert Group hold the Achieving a Healthy Planet for all Through a Gender-Just Recovery side event at Stockholm+50.

This event aimed to explore why gender equality needs to be a central component of global environmental action and to the ambitions of a better post-COVID world. It spotlighted the opportunities and limitations of our current just transition models, and further highlighted how gender transformative approaches helps in fulfilling our commitment to combating the three planetary crises.

The event was a success, attended by nearly 200 people both online and in-person. Speakers included Sarah Hendriks, Director Programme, Policy and Intergovernmental Division at UN Women; Madeleine Diouf Sarr UNFCCC LDC Chair; Dr. Saleemul Huq Director of the International Centrer for Climate Change and Development; Bhavna Choudhury Founder of The Indegenous; Sheila Oparaocha Director of ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy and Dr. Pem Narayan Kandel, Secretary, Ministry of Forestry and Environment, Nepal. The event was moderated by Ingvild Solvang , Deputy Director and Head of Climate Action and Inclusive Development, Global Green Growth Institute.

Special thanks to Dina Abdelhakim, Sohna Ngum and Luisa Kim for the excellent support!

Greetings to you from Jumuiya Women Fund (JWF), based in Eldoret, Kenya

JWF is a women’s rights fund committed to women’s empowerment. Our mission is to mobilize financial, human and material resources to support initiatives for transformation led by women and girls in East Africa

With support of Equality Fund Canada-https://equalityfund.ca, JWF is providing small grants to eligible women rights and development organizations in selected counties across Kenya, who are working to advance human rights and socio-economic empowerment of women and girls, enabling them realize their full potentials in society in line with the sustainable development goals.

JWF addresses the six critical issues that underpin gender equality: i) Gender-Based Violence; ii) Economic Justice and Rights; iii) Bodily Autonomy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR); iv) Feminist Action for Climate Justice; v) Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality; and vi) Feminist Movements and Leadership.

In line with with iv) Feminist Action for Climate Justice above, I wish to express our desire to partner with your organization to address and accelerate our Feminist action for climate justice program in Eastern Africa by enhancing and leverage the capacity of millions of women and girls in the region by building their resilience to climate and disaster risks, mitigate climate change, and address loss and damage, including through provision of quality education, community-based cooperative models and land rights and tenure security

"I know that Pacific women have a key role to play in your recovery, and in your economic development.
Societies work better, economies work better, communities work better, when we remove barriers to the participation of women and girls, when all have an equal place in national life.
As the countries of the Pacific continue to chart a course to recovery from the challenges of COVID, we know that women and girls – their status, their participation, their education, their safety – will be a vital part of that recovery.
We will always seek to work in partnership with our Pacific Family."

-Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Australia
Penny Wong - Senator for SA

The importance of creating gender inclusion in all climate change interventions

A very interesting blog post by the World Bank that truly highlights how much work there is still to be done in the gender space in regards to climate change interventions and bringing further equality in sustainable development efforts to women.

Can Stockholm+50 be a Turning Point for Gender Equality?

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted significant vulnerabilities worldwide, indicating an urgency for inclusive and collective engagement. Gender-just transitions won’t happen by themself: they will require dedicated effort, focus and collaboration from many different political and economic actors.

Stockholm+50 can be the place to harness our individual resources and provide pathways for placing gender equality at the centre of global environmental actions for the years to come.