GGCA Gender and Climate Change Training Manual - Women's ...

Contents:
Prologue .................................................................................................................................................. iii
Foreword .................................................................................................................................................. iv
Acronyms ................................................................................................................................................. 1
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 5
Module 1:Gender and gender mainstreaming .................................................................................. 13
1.1 What is gender? ......................................................................................................................... 13
1.2 What is gender mainstreaming? .............................................................................................. 16
1.3 Women’s special condition ...................................................................................................... 17
Further resources ....................................................................................................................... 18
Assignments for this module ..................................................................................................... 19
Notes for the facilitator ............................................................................................................. 20
Case studies ................................................................................................................................ 21
Case study 1 Women planning sustainable agriculture ............................................... 21
Case study 2 UNEP Gender Plan of Action ...................................................................... 23
Case study 3 CBD Gender Plan of Action ........................................................................ 25
Instruments and techniques ..................................................................................................... 27
Module 2: International law instruments as a framework for mainstreaming gender in
climate change ..................................................................................................................................... 43
2.1 Human rights as a starting point ............................................................................................... 44
2.1.1 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) ........................................................................ 45
2.1.2 Gender and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples .............. 48
2.2 Gender equality ......................................................................................................................... 49
2.3 Disaster risk reduction ................................................................................................................ 50
2.4 Gender and sustainable development .................................................................................. 52
2.4.1 Agenda 21 ................................................................................................................. 52
2.4.2 WSSD Plan of Implementation ................................................................................. 53
2.4.3 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and Beijing +10 ............................... 53
2.4.4 Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals ...................... 54
2.4.5 The “Rio Conventions” .............................................................................................. 55
2.5 Policy coherence ..................................................................................................................... 61
Further resources ....................................................................................................................... 63
Notes for the facilitator ........................................................................................................... 64
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