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GENDER AND THE GREEN ECONOMY: WOMEN’S GREEN INITIATIVES

GENDER AND THE GREEN ECONOMY: WOMEN’S GREEN INITIATIVES. Eleanor Blomstrom February 9, 2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference. WEDO: A WOMEN’S GLOBAL ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION. influencing global policies and processes

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GENDER AND THE GREEN ECONOMY: WOMEN’S GREEN INITIATIVES

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  1. GENDER AND THE GREEN ECONOMY: WOMEN’S GREEN INITIATIVES Eleanor Blomstrom February 9, 2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference

  2. WEDO: A WOMEN’S GLOBAL ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION • influencing global policies and processes • increasingly working with regional and national governments on gender-responsive implementation of policies at home • working on environmental and rights issues • collaborating with a variety of organizations and institutions

  3. Why Gender and Green Economy? • Rio +20 (United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012) • Themes: • International Environmental Governance • Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication • Shifting world focus from Climate Change to Sustainable Development • UN Secretary General, CSW, UN Women

  4. Why Gender and Green Economy? • Women are critical to sustainable solutions • Unique knowledge and experience • Community-wide impact • Coping skills • Issues are not gender neutral • Gender roles • Poverty • Resource access • Political power • Opportunity • Training/Education • Financing

  5. Green Economy Sectors • Agriculture • Energy • Technology • Communication • Waste • Water and Sanitation • Transportation

  6. Green Economy • Challenges • A Northern notion? • Green Neoliberalism? • Equity issues • Opportunities • We can define it! • We can design it!

  7. Two-pronged Approach • LEADERSHIP • Access and participation • Gender equity in decision-making • RESPONSIVENESS • Gender considerations in policy • Differentiated needs and capacities

  8. GREEN INITIATIVES

  9. TRI MUMPUNI WIYATNO OR “PUNI”INDONESIA • Micro-hydropower plants (MHP) • Renewable energy • Income generation • Community ownership model • Community cooperative • Empowered financially and technically • Connect off-grid to national grid • NGO: People Centered Business and Economic Institute (IBEKA)

  10. YUYUN ISMAWATIINDONESIA • Community-based waste management • Create jobs • Reduce waste • Increase recycling • Engage local residents • Emphasize training • Owned and operated by village itself • Carbon credits at plant • Scale up household level • NGO: Bali Fokus

  11. LOCAL ENERGY FOCAL POINTSSENEGAL • Local energy sources – improved stoves • Community participation • Link to local development • Combat climate change • Save money and time • Community-directed • Emphasize training • Goal to be self-sustaining • Plans to scale up • NGO: WEDO/ENDA

  12. AMBULENT FOOD VENDORS: ENERGY-EFFICIENT STOVE, HYGIENIC AND HEALTHY FOODPHILIPPINES • Promoted Mabaga Stove for Street Vendors • Urban entrepreneurial poor • Commissioner on Family and Women Affairs, Zenaida Amores • 30-70% savings on cooking expenses • Commercialized cookstoves • Income from selling stove and charcoal • Training of Trainers • NGO: Approtech Asia

  13. THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY ABBEYPHILIPPINES • Biogas technology for nunnery • Biogas digester for poultry and piggery project • Assistance Mariano Marcos State University Affiliated Non-conventional Energy Center • Waste disposal • Methane gas replaces LPG • Alternative source of energy for cooking, lighting, washing, freezing, etc • Save expenses • Replaces grid electricity, biomass and fossil fuel • NGO: Approtech Asia

  14. WHAT ARE THE LESSONS? • Finance • Training/Capacity Building • Community Participation • Community-defined • Scaling up • Partnership • Innovation • Reduce inequality AND address sustainable development • Income generating

  15. Thank You! For more information, please visit: http://www.wedo.org Contact info: Eleanor Blomstrom eleanor@wedo.org 212.973.0325 ext. 206

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