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• IUCN Gender Office Gender at the Core of Environmental Solutions

  Author: The IUCN Gender Office

  Date: 2011-08-25

  The IUCN Gender Office
  For more than 20 years, IUCN has recognized the key
  role played by gender in biodiversity conservation and
  environmental sustainability. This has found expression since
  1998 in a formalized gender mandate implemented by a
  dedicated Gender Office and programme. IUCN’s Gender
  Policy explicitly calls for the inclusion of gender equality in
  the annual workplans of all the programmes, projects and
  initiatives carried out by the organization, along with the
  participation and inclusion of women in all IUCN events,
  forums and delegations.
  At a global level, IUCN’s Gender Policy seeks to ensure that
  all the Union’s work involving people also addresses gender
  in a constructive and positive manner. Among its activities
  it seeks to ensure that the differentiated access to, use and
  management of biodiversity by women and men is recognized
  along with the different roles and contributions they can make
  towards its sustainable use and conservation; that policies
  and governance adopted seek to advance gender equality
  and acknowledge gender roles in biodiversity; that the role
  of women in sustainable biodiversity use and conservation
  is fully recognized and harnessed; and that indicators
  for progress can be disaggregated by gender to show
  differences in progress and serve as a basis for activities to
  improve performance.
  IUCN’s Gender Office is an out-posted office of the IUCN
  World Headquarters based in Costa Rica. It has staff members
  strategically located around the world and also has Gender
  Focal points based in eight of the ten IUCN Regional Offices
  worldwide. Together the team works on gender issues in all
  10 global regions, 45 national office and 160 countries.

  Documents of this publication:

  • IUCN Gender Office Gender at the Core of Environmental Solutions

• A Gender Policy Framework for UNCCD

  Author: IUCN GENDER OFFICE

  Date: 2011-08-25

  “The UNCCD is about much more than pushing back encroaching
  deserts, it is about sustainable use of drylands so that they can support
  human life and nature.
  Gender mainstreaming is not an add-on; it is about realizing the full
  creative and productive potential of women and men to advance the
  development agenda.”

  Gender continues to be “one of the world’s strongest markers for disadvantage1”.
  All too often the role of women in different spheres of life is overlooked or even
  denied. This is especially true of the environmental and economic sectors where
  women’s access to resources is often more limited, leading to differences in benefits
  derived from their use, resulting in important inequalities. Yet, today it is widely
  recognized that gender parity can be a real driver of change and of efforts to achieve
  sustainable development. Women, especially in indigenous communities, have a
  differentiated knowledge about resources that could make significant contributions
  to the development of society as a whole.
  Gender mainstreaming has been the primary methodology used to integrate a gender
  approach into development and/or environmental efforts. Gender mainstreaming is
  not simply about paying lip-service to equality between men and women by adding
  women’s participation to existing strategies and programmes. Rather, it seeks to
  transform unequal social and institutional structures to realize the full creative and
  productive potential of women to reduce vulnerability and enhance efficiency and
  effectiveness of development projects and programmes.
  Gender mainstreaming is gaining in currency among policy makers, international
  organizations and donors. The importance of gender mainstreaming in environmental
  efforts and poverty eradication has been recognized in a wide range of global
  agreements and conventions, including, but not limited to, the United Nations
  Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the only legally binding international
  agreement that links environment and development issues to the land agenda.
  In light of the importance of the role of women in efforts to combat desertification,
  the IUCN Gender Office has teamed up with the Secretariat of the UNCCD to
  develop a Gender Policy Framework (GPF) for the UNCCD and its Secretariat. The
  following pages present a summary of the main components of this Framework and
  suggestions for its implementation.

  Documents of this publication:

  • A Gender Policy Framework for UNCCD

  Links:

  • A Gender Policy Framework for UNCCD

• Harmonizing Gender in the Three Rio Conventions and the GEF

  Author: IUCN GENDER OFFICE

  Date: 2011-08-25

  “To lift, by 2020, gender as a cross-cutting priority and to ensure that it is
  integrated into thematic issues across the Rio Conventions and the GEF,
  to achieve the long-term objectives of these Conventions.”

  Gender is an important recurring theme across the three Rio Conventions. As
  such, it has been acknowledged as an appropriate entry point for efforts to achieve
  harmonization across the Conventions. The heads of the Rio Conventions and the
  Global Environment Facility (GEF) have therefore decided to collaborate on efforts to
  harmonize gender mainstreaming across the three Conventions and the GEF.
  As the foremost Scientific and Technical Centre of Excellence on Gender and
  Environment, IUCN has been identified by the Secretariats of the three Conventions
  and the GEF as their preferred partner in efforts to harmonize gender mainstreaming
  across the Conventions during implementation.
  IUCN is working closely with the three Secretariats and the GEF to facilitate
  the process to develop a common vision and a shared roadmap to promote the
  advancement of gender equality and women’s empowerment within and across their
  respective areas of work. This builds on an on-going programme of work that IUCN is
  already implementing with the three Secretariats – its experience and expertise, and
  its unique convening power enabling it to bring together a wide range of stakeholders
  to share knowledge and information.

  Documents of this publication:

  • Harmonizing Gender in the Three Rio Conventions and the GEF

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