Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Subject "GENDER EQUALITY"
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Biodiversity and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(2016-10)This short document provides illustrative examples of how biodiversity can play an essential role in efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Details on ... -
Building Resilience, Integrating Gender: Women, Natural Resources and Climate Change in Afghanistan
(2017)This paper’s goals are twofold. First is to shine greater light on the valuable contributions that women play in the management of natural resources and maintaining healthy ecosystems in Afghanistan. Second is to expand ... -
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, ... -
El Enfoque de Género Aplicado a la Gestión Integral de Residuos en Perú: Lecciones Aprendidas y Herramientas Para un Desarrollo Sostenible e Inclusivo
(2018-08-01)El objetivo de este documento es extraer las lecciones aprendidas de la aplicación del enfoque de género y proponer algunas recomendaciones que puedan orientar y mejorar el trabajo de funcionarios de distintos Ministerios ... -
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 and Waste Nexus: Experiences from Bhutan, Mongolia and Nepal
(2019)Over the past few years, the issue of gender in waste management has received increasing attention, highlighting that waste production and management is not gender neutral. In fact, existing gender inequalities, responsibilities ... -
Gender Equality: Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls
(2017)Goal 5 offers an opportunity to deliver transformative actions for addressing these constraints and for accelerating progress toward stronger economies. -
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GEO-6 Cross-cutting Issues and Policy Infographic
(2019)Climate adaptation in coastal cities and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is generally categorized as ‘protect’, ‘accommodate’, ‘retreat’. -
Integrated Baseline Study: Port-à-Piment Watershed - Sud Department, Haiti
(2013)This report provides a platform to measure indicators of development and poverty reduction over a multi-year time frame. It is also part of ongoing scientific research to understand the interaction and linkage of elements ... -
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 ... -
Think Piece: Gender and Climate Change in the Context of COVID-19
(2020)2020 was intended to be a pivotal year for the global gender equality agenda and global climate change ambition. It was supposed to be a year to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and to ... -
UNEP in 2019 - Letter from the Executive Director [Annual Report]
(2020)In lieu of an annual report, Executive Director Inger Andersen looks back in letter format on 2019, her first year in office. She calls it “a year when our past finally caught up with us and science provided an unambiguous ...