Gender Data for Climate Solutions: New Cross-Sector Evidence and Strategies for Gender-Responsive Climate Action

May 27, 2021 | United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Online
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Building climate resilience for all requires gender-responsive policy-making, programming, and practice that deeply understands and takes coordinated steps to address inequities and empowers diverse people as change agents. Sex-disaggregated and gender data is crucial to understanding diverse people’s “lived realities” and to forging effective, efficient, equitable, and sustainable solutions to the climate crisis - from grassroots to global policy spheres.

This webinar discusses gender and climate change linkages through a focus on how gender data can inform robust climate action and how climate data can be employed to advance gender equality. This conversation is critical and timely, as countries are currently finalizing their revised Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and are preparing for this year’s international climate change discussions. The webinar will elevate resources from varied partners, including: new AGENT research on the “triple nexus” of gender inequality, state fragility, and climate vulnerability; national examples of “gender data in action” that are being used to shape climate policies and plans; and a discussion with leaders of the Generation Equality - Feminist Action for Climate Justice coalition, which is about to launch a new blueprint for action grounded in the fundamental need to build and communicate better cross-sector gender-climate data and analysis.

Planned speakers include:

  • Ann Vaughan, Senior Advisor for Climate Change, USAID
  • Sara Duarto Valero, Statistics Specialist, UN Women Bangkok
  • Syeda Hadika Jamshaid, Climate Change Specialist, Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan; NDC country facilitator
  • Denis Macharia, Weather and Climate Lead SERVIR Eastern & Southern Africa
  • Georgia Hartman, Gender & Environment Technical Advisor, USAID
  • Ana Rojas, Senior Technical Lead on Gender and Climate Change, IUCN

Who:  USAID

Where: Online

When: 27 May 2021   Time: 03:00 PM BST