Gender and Environmental Change Workshop: highlights
From 17-18 March, the International Institute for Environment and Development hosted a workshop to identify a future agenda for research action on gender and environmental change. Here are some of the highlights.
Planned outcomes of the two-day workshop included the production of a briefing paper that will reflect on the ideas raised by participants and suggest new areas to explore.
Highlights of the workshop were collated via Storify – you can read them below:
Videos
Video interviews have been produced with Houria Djoudi, a scientist in the livelihoods department at the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); Sonia Maria Dias, Sector Specialist for Women in Informal Employment, Globalising and Organising (WIEGO); and Carole Rakodi, Emeritus Professor of the University of Birmingham.
Event presentations
Also available on IIED's SlideShare site and below are nine of the presentations given during the event.
- Gender and waste-picking in Brazil – by Sonia Dias (WIEGO)
- Green economy: what's in it for women? – by Joy Clancy (ENERGIA)
- REDD+ and gender – by Isilda Nhantumbo (IIED)
- The nine myths of gender and environmental change – by Irene Dankelman (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
- Gender, land and resource rights – by Houria Djoudi (CIFOR)
- Framework and methods for integrating gender in REDD+ – by Delia Catacutan (ICRAF)
- Environment, gender relations and transformation: clarifying concepts? – by Caroline Moser (University of Manchester)
- Getting gender right in REDD+ SES – by Andrea Quesada-Aguilar (WEDO)
- Land, gender and environmental change – by Marie Monimart
