The Foundation’s approach strives to ensure that policy decisions are informed by the expertise of those people affected by the impacts of climate change, and calls for solutions whose creation includes the people these policies are made for, such as grassroots practitioners like Kirdanu Girmay, a farmer and researcher from Tigray, Ethiopia (right), who participated alongside Berhanu Woelde-Michael, Director, Food Security Coordination Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development, Ethiopia (centre) and Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Regional Programme Leader, CCAFS (left), in a capacity building workshop that enabled them to share their expertise with high-level policy makers during the Hunger – Nutrition – Climate Justice Conference in Dublin in 2013.

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Analysis of Gender References in UNFCCC COP 17 & CMP 7 texts

Posted on 13th December 2011

This article is in Categories: Briefs and Position Paper, Development, Ensure that Decisions on Climate Change are Participatory, Transparent and Accountable, Gender Equality, Highlight Gender Equality and Equity, Human Rights, Troika+

The references to gender in the COP 17 decision texts can be viewed as a positive outcome that build on the good foundation achieved in the Cancun Agreements last year. There are increasing references to gender and the need for gender equality in the UNFCCC texts.

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