Browsing Knowledge Repository by Topic "Gender"
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Contributions of the UN Environment Assembly to the 2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
(2019)Ensuring the health of the environment is essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In particular, taking urgent action to curb global average temperature rise to well below 2C will prove critical ... -
The Cost of the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity: Five African Countries
(2018)Women represent over half of the agricultural labour force in Sub-Saharan Africa. Their substantive contribution to agriculture and their vital role in ensuring family food security have been widely documented. However, ... -
Domestic Environment and Health of Women and Children
(1999)Given that the health problems associated with the domestic environment mainly affect women and children, gender issues are a strong component of this study. The book provides examples of how social and political backgrounds ... -
Eco-Entrepreneurship Guide
(2017)This guide covers empowering BDAs & NSAs to advocate for sustainable consumption and production practices and support Eco-Entrepreneurs in their development and transition towards green inclusive businesses -
Environmental Law Making and Oversight for Sustainable Development: A guide for Legislators
(2018)The overarching purpose of this Guide is to provide formative answers to these questions that are practically useful in the daily work of legislators and legislative officials around the world. The scope of the Guide ... -
Gender, Climate & Security: Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change - Report Summary
(2020)This report offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how gender, climate and security are linked (section II), and shares – through a series of brief case studies – practical examples of empirical research, ... -
Guiding Document for Mainstreaming Gender in Project Implementation and Management: SwitchMed II National Projects – SwitchMed Programme
(2020)Building on the UNEP’s Policy and Strategy for Gender and the Environment 2014–2017, the purpose of this guiding document is to help implementing partners understand the relevance of gender in their specific field of ... -
Integrated Baseline Study: Ten Communes of the Southwest Coast, South Department, Haiti
(2013)The Côte Sud Initiative’s Integrated Baseline Assessment is a multidisciplinary study that covers social and economic aspects of rural dwellers in Haiti. This report provides an integrated multi-sector analysis for ten ... -
Integrating Gender Dimensions into National Action Plans for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining - Webinar on Gender Mainstreaming [Presentations]
(2021)This document is a compilation of presentations made at the webinar on gender mainstreaming "Integrating Gender Dimensions into National Action Plans for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining Webinar on Gender mainstreaming". ... -
Letter from the Executive Director: UNEP in 2020 [Annual Report]
(2021)The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is a passionate advocate for planetary and human health. For almost 50 years, UNEP has delivered science to help the world understand the damage humanity’s carbon- and ... -
Localising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Fair Trade – Toolkit
(2016)Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and ... -
Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women
(2020)This policy brief focuses on each of these issues in turn, exploring how women and girls’ lives are changing in the face of COVID- 19, and outlining suggested priority measures to accompany both the immediate response and ... -
Poverty-Environment Initiative Africa: Achievements and Lessons Learned 2005–2018
(2019)This report reviews the Initiative’s successes and failures, and its responses to these. In so doing, it documents how robust and integrated evidence—along with changes in policy, budgeting, investment and monitoring ... -
Provisional Agenda: African Ministerial Conference on the Environment - Seventeenth Session, Ministerial Segment
(2019-09)Ministerial Segment Provisional Agenda -
Quarterly Report to the 143rd Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives - Second Issue: April to July 2018
(2018)This report aims to provide the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the UN Environment Programme with an update on key developments in the period 1 April to 31 July 2018. -
Quarterly Report to the 149th Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives: Seventh Issue - December 2019 to January 2020
(2020)This quarterly report updates the Committee of Permanent Representatives on significant political and regional developments related to UNEP’s work as well as on management issues in UNEP. It covers the period from 1 ... -
Quarterly Report to the 151st Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives: Ninth Issue - April to June 2020
(2020)COVID-19 response and impact remained a critical factor during this period. There were opportunities for innovation and there was a greater appreciation of the importance of nature-based solutions and the link between ... -
Scaling Innovation at the Energy-Agriculture Nexus in East Africa: Sectoral Business Condition Brief Energy-Agriculture Nexus
(2016)With rising global demand for food, there is an urgent need to find climate-smart ways to intensify agricultural production. As the population expands, agribusinesses not only need to fight food losses but also produce and ... -
Technical Summary - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)This Technical Summary synthesizes the key evidence and messages of GEO-6. Chapter 1 sets out the context and methodological approach of the GEO-6 assessment. It is followed by chapters that: i) discuss the five drivers ...
