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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The Full View: Advancing the Goal of Gender Balance in Multilateral and Intergovernmental Processes

Posted on 2nd May 2013

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, Respect and Protect Human Rights, Troika+

A research report by the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice and UN Women which analysed the participation of women in decision-making and management processes at national and global levels of governance. The report included a set of recommendations for Parties and observers to the UNFCCC to consider in preparing their submissions to the UNFCCC secretariat on options and ways to advance the goal of gender balance.

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