Gender and environment ‘101’: a hands-on, fast-tracked training for gender-responsive conservation

Why attend

Gender-responsive conservation action is a prerequisite for achieving sustainable conservation outcomes and ensuring global human rights. In this session, participants will get hands-on training to understand cross-sectoral gender-environment links and learn how to integrate gender in project design, implementation, M&E, reporting and learning.

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Gender inequality remains one of the most pervasive forms of discrimination around the world. Women and men have different access to, uses of, control over, benefits from and dependence upon natural resources—yet their views are unevenly included in environmental decision-making at all levels. Still, evidence shows that gender-responsive conservation interventions lead to better conservation outcomes—as well as gender equality outcomes. Through an interactive, fast-paced training, this session will build capacity of participants on gender concepts, issues across sectors, and approaches/tools to employ a gender-responsive approach for environmental programming. Increased awareness and capacity to address gender considerations in conservation will strengthen global action, not least to meet SDGs and a transformative post-2020 global biodiversity framework.