Gender and Environmental Change Workshop (17-18 February 2014)
Catch up with the coverage from a workshop hosted by IIED to identify a future agenda for research action on gender and environmental change
- Workshop to discuss future action research agenda on #gender & #environmental change starting now at @IIED we'll be tweeting #IIEDgender
- Caroline Moser and fellow panellists kick off workshop with 'myths, processes and power relations' on gender and env change #IIEDgender
- "We need to have a conversation about social #inequality - not just #gender inequality" says @AgnesCARE #IIEDgender
- Much discussion about role of data/evidence: is it important? Consensus is YES, but what kind of data and how is it used? #IIEDgender
- Next we're looking at what the #greeneconomy might look like through a #gender lens, steered by Emily Benson (@GECoalition) #IIEDgender
- "Can the green (#energy) economy be transformatory?" asks Joy Clancy from ENERGIA...& why assume that women want a #greenconomy? #IIEDgender
- We hope to be able to share the #IIEDgender presentations later RT @BrooksPoverty: @IIED would like to hear more about the Brazilian example
- Need to look beyond #gender to all other exclusion factors - @WIEGOGLOBAL's Sonia Maria Diaz on work with Brazil's waste-pickers #IIEDgender
- Today at the Gender and environmental meeting in London: Feminization of agriculture a challenge #IIEDgender
- #Landgrabs well-known about but data lacking on gender impact; and internat'l grabs are not the only problem... #IIEDgender
- We'll put event presentations & summary blog online at a later date RT @EvaShilaho: Hope I can access report online?… #IIEDgender
- How to communicate more clearly + widely + reach out to men more? It's clear who's in the room + who isn't...says @lizcarlile #IIEDgender
- Communicating 'gender' - difficult balance between simple messages backed up by evidence but not ignoring the complexities #IIEDgender
- The role of the state needs to be acknowledged in development says WIEGO waste specialist #IIEDgender
- You can read more about our work on #REDD+ and #gender here: http://iied.org/gender-redd #IIEDgender
- Andrea Quesada Aguilar from @WEDO_worldwide and @ICRAF's Delia Catacutan are discussing how best to address gender in #REDD+ #IIEDgender
- @lizcarlile Delia Catacutan Gender Coordinator, ICRAF sharing model for getting gender into research using dimensions of equity #IIEDgender
- "REDD benefits and distribution should be gender specific" Delia Catacutan Gender Coordinator ICRAF #IIEDgender
- "Gender equality is the ultimate goal - equity is just one of the steps" says @WEDO_worldwide's Andrea Quesada-Aguilar #REDD+ #IIEDgender
- The next & final session of the #gender & environment change workshop will be led by IIED's @lizcarlile #IIEDgender
- Objective of workshop was to learn from each other - done! Next steps? Watch this space: http://iied.org/gender #IIEDgender