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CBD Secretariat (Convention on Biological Diversity)
The Convention Secretariat seeks to address all threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services, including threats from climate change. The CBD presented its gender plan of action where it committed to stimulate and facilitate efforts, both in house and with partners at the national, regional and global levels, to overcome constraints and take advantage of opportunities to promote gender equality. The CBD is working on a portal on gender for the CBD website and a case studies database on gender and dry lands on the drylands portal. The CBD’s membership in the GGCA also facilitates collaboration on gender across multiple environmental conventions.
www.cbd.int

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Currently FAO in collaboration with UNDP and UNESCO coordinates the Inter Agency Task Force on Gender and Climate Change. FAO is also in the process of developing several publications on gender and bioenergy, and a publication, in collaboration with OCHA, that reviews what the climate change and disaster/humanitarian fields can learn from each other. One of FAO’s roles within the GGCA is to provide research, data, and policy advice.
www.fao.org

IOM (International Organization for Migration)
IOM works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people. IOM is currently engaged in the incorporation of migration issues in GGCA efforts.
www.iom.int

ISDR (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction)
The ISDR aims at building disaster resilient communities by promoting increased awareness of the importance of disaster reduction as an integral component of sustainable development, with the goal of reducing human, social, economic and environmental losses due to natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters. ISDR works to ensure that all Disaster Risk Reduction strategy is gender responsive. Currently, ISDR and OCHOA are analyzing the flash appeals related to natural hazards and national disaster plans. As part of the efforts to link gender issues and disaster risk reduction, ISDR and All China Women's Federation hosted the International Conference on Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction in Beijing, China on April 2009. Also this past June, ISDR hosted the second session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.
www.unisdr.org

OCHA (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
OCHA's mission is to mobilise and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors in order to alleviate human suffering in disasters and emergencies, advocate for the rights of people in need, promote preparedness and prevention, and facilitate sustainable solutions. OCHA and FAO are developing a publication that reviews what the climate change and disaster/humanitarian fields can learn from each other. OCHA is also collaborating with UN ISDR to analyze the flash appeals related to natural hazards and national disaster plans. OCHA has completed an analysis of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action.
www.ochaonline.un.org

UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP leads the GGCA’s efforts on gender and climate change finance, including the Workshop on Gender and Climate Change Finance in November 2008, innovative research and analysis to inform gender guidelines, and issue briefs for specific finance mechanisms such as the Adaptation Fund and the Clean Development Mechanism. UNDP collaborates with FAO and UNESCO to coordinate the Inter Agency Task Force on Gender and Climate Change and with UNESCO to incorporate gender and climate change in the Chief Executives Board High Level Committee on Programs. UNDP conducted the GGCA training for government delegates from Small Islands Developing States and in collaboration with UNEP is conducting the GGCA’s Africa regional Training of Trainers and delegate orientation.
www.undp.org

UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. UNEP builds on its current support structures for the Global Ministerial Forum and Gender Plan of Action and works to integrate a gender perspective in ongoing training and policymaking processes. UNEP is a failitator of the Network of Women Minister and Leaders for the Environment. UNEP in collaboration with UNDP is conducting the GGCA’s Africa regional Training of Trainers and delegate orientation.
www.unep.org

UNESCO (UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization)
UNESCO functions as a laboratory of ideas and a standard-setter to forge universal agreements on emerging ethical issues and it is working to create the conditions for genuine dialogue based upon respect for shared values and the dignity of each civilization and culture. UNESCO is collaboration with UNDP is currently working to Incorporate gender and climate change in Chief Executives Board High Level Committee on Programs and co-chairs the Inter Agency Task Force on Gender and Climate Change with UNDP and FAO. UNESCO alongside GGCA partners organized the Gender and Climate Forum at the 3rd World Climate Conference and produced the French version of the GGCA training manual.
www.unesco.org

UNFPA (UN Population Fund)
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA is currently working in collaboration with WEDO on creation of Toolkit and guidelines for advocates and practitioners with case studies on gender and climate change. It is also preparing a forthcoming State of the World Population document on Population, Gender and Climate Change.
www.unpfa.org

UNICEF (UN Children’s Fund)
UNICEF works tirelessly to ensure that every child – regardless of gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic background or circumstances – has access to a quality education. UNICEF is currently working to Incorporate climate change in UN Girls Education Initiative.
www.unicef.org

UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women)
UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations, dedicated to advancing women’s rights and achieving gender equality. UNIFEM is presently involved in the advocacy team that aims to mainstream gender into UNFCCC negotiations. UNIFEM supports the Seal the Deal campaign to encourage governments to reach an ambitious and effective global climate agreement in Copenhagen this December. Also, UNIFEM recently presented their publication Adivasi Women – Engaging with Climate Change.
www.unifem.org

UN-HABITAT
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. HABITAT is at present working on a paper for policy makers on gender, cities and climate change.
www.unhabitat.org

WHO (World Health Organization)
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. WHO is currently developing an information sheet on women, gender and climate change, with a focus on health related implications and consequences; promote an advocacy campaign on women, gender and climate change; and develop an overview report on gender and climate change with a focus on health related implications and consequences.
www.who.int

Civil society organizations

ActionAid
ActionAid’s six-year strategy aims to end poverty and recognizes that gender inequalities are one of the main causes of poverty and injustice. ActionAid’s agenda includes improving their commitment to, and action on, women’s rights and gender equality.

African Gender and Climate Change Network
The AGCN is part of the GGCA advocacy team at global and regional UNFCCC sessions. The AGCN works to promote mainstreaming gender and energy sensitivity into climate-related projects.

Baha’í’ International Community
The BIC seeks to "promote world peace by creating the conditions in which unity emerges as the natural state of human existence" by promoting and applying principles which are derived from the teachings of the Bahá'í Faith to develop a united and sustainable civilization. For sixty years, the BIC’s United Nations Office has worked for women’s advancement and gender equality, through its participation and contributions to the session of the Commission on the Status of Women, through strengthening the UN’s gender mechanisms and through supporting the programmes and implementation efforts of its national affiliates. BIC is producing resource materials, discussion board, and organize a seminar/conference on the ethical dimensions of climate change and the role of individuals and communities.

Center for Human Development
The Center for Human Development (CHD) provides a broad range of community-oriented human services dedicated to promoting, enhancing and protecting the dignity and welfare of people in need. The CHD is currently working on several activities on the theme of gender and climate change such as a National Consultation Workshop on Climate Change, an International Day Celebration on Gender and Climate Change, an awareness campaign, and capacity building to empower girls to take climate leadership.

CEPLAES (Center for Social Studies and Planning)
The Centre for Planning and Social Science is a nongovernmental organization based in Quito, Ecuador. The mission of CEPLAES is to contribute to overcoming economic, social, environmental, gender and ethnic inequities by acting on the knowledge and power of public policy. CEPLAES is working on several initiatves related to gender and climate change: a project called “Women for Climate”; a project with indigenous peoples to avoid deforestation; and a project with the School of Municipal Women of Ecuador (AMUME) to include a module on gender and climate change in their trainings. The CEPLAES is also working to strengthen capacities using the GGCA Training Manual and is distributing information on gender and climate change.

Energia International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy
ENERGIA is the international network on gender and sustainable energy. ENERGIA coleads the GGCA Advocacy Team at global and regional UNFCCC sessions and has produced a paper on gender and biofuels with IUCN. Energia co-facilitated the Women's Major Group during the Commission on Sustainable Development sessions on energy and climate change.

ENDA (Environmental Development Action in the Third World)
ENDA works to contribute to a better understanding of the energy and development issues of Africa from a technical, economic, political and social standpoint; to define the conditions necessary to improve access to energy services for the poorest people; to contribute to the development and implementation of Multilateral Agreements on Environment by African countries, and to analyze and explore synergies between Energy-Environment-Development with a view of "development first". ENDA currently has a gender program that is part of the "Energy, Environment and Development" program. Within the gender and energy program, ENDA is carrying out specific projects focused on climate change and vulnerability, poverty, water, energy, technology, and the preservation of environmental resources.

Gender and Disasters Network
The Gender and Disaster Network is an educational project initiated by women and men interested in gender relations in disaster contexts aimed to utilize the Internet and other forms of new media in support of a global network of researchers and practitioners. The GDN is engaged in gender trainings, collaborating with gender and climate change groups, sending members to joint meetings, and policy analysis and advocacy. The GDN is currently researching climate-related issues of environmental justice, migration, food security, livelihoods in the Pacific, and identifying gaps for knowledge development and advocacy.

Gender and Water Alliance
Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) is a global network dedicated to mainstreaming gender in water resources management. GWA's mission is to promote women's and men's equitable access to and management of safe and adequate water, for domestic supply, sanitation, food security and environmental sustainability. GWA collaborated with IUCN and GGCA on a gender training around the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul.

Heifer International
Heifer’s mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth. Heifer's strategy is to “pass on the gift”, as people share their animals’ offspring with others – along with their knowledge, resources, and skills – an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe. Heifer is working to ensure that gender and climate change considerations are integrated in the Carbon Hoofprint (footprint) project; building a coalition to advocate for gender mainstreaming and increased resources in climate change adaptation and mitigation programs; building internal capacity to design and implement mitigation activities; and increasing recognition of the role of women farmers. Heifer International, in partnership with WOCAN, is targeting institutions to mainstream gender and make them accountable to women’s groups in Ghana, Cameroon, India and Nepal, and Heifer offices in 5 African countries.

Huairou Commission/GROOTS International
The Huairou Commission is a global coalition of networks, institutions and individual professionals that links grassroots women's community development organizations to partners. The network seeks access to resources, information-sharing and political space. The Huairou Commission and GROOTS International will ensure the leadership of grassroots women in the GGCA by ensuring that their priorities are brought into GGCA's overall framework and the negotiations for the upcoming Copenhagen Agreements. The Huairou Commission and GROOTS International also incorporate the issues of disaster risk reduction and community resilience into the climate change work of GGCA.

International Alliance of Women
The International Alliance of Women (IAW) affirms that full and equal enjoyment of human rights is due to all women and girls. The IAW maintains that a prerequisite to securing these rights is the universal ratification and implementation, without reservation, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). IAW organized two panels on gender and climate change during the Commission on the Status of Women and has developed “Women’s Human Rights, Gender and Climate Change” in collaboration with other women organizations and the “Statement of the CEDAW Committee on Gender and Climate Change” in collaboration with GGCA and WEDO. IAW is part of the GGCA Advocacy Team at global and regional UNFCCC sessions.

IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature)
IUCN’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. IUCN has recognized that gender equality and equity are matters of fundamental human rights and social justice, and a pre-condition for sustainable development and the achievement of its mission. IUCN spearheaded the GGCA Training Manual and the series of global and regional Training of Trainers and orientations for UNFCCC government delegates during UNFCCC sessions. IUCN also provides leadership in the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) area, in partnership with WOCAN, GGCA and other members, including the Engendering REDD Workshop with REDD experts and pilot projects in 2009.

International Women’s Development Agency (Australia)
IWDA is an Australian non-profit organization that creates positive change for women and their communities. IWDA is working in the People Powering the Future project, a climate change movement building alliance in the Asia Pacific engaging women and young people; Solomon Islands Natural Resource Management Program (SINPA), which tries to engage women and communities in alternative livelihoods to logging; and with women's organization as part of the Tulele Peisa project on the Caterets Islands in the relocation of islanders to new homes due to rising sea levels. IWDA is also promoting capacity building for partners in the Pacific, ensuring that the needs of those women and communities who have to leave their homes are considered in international policy.

Lambi Fund of Haiti
The Lambi Fund's mission is to assist the popular, democratic movement in Haiti. Its goal is to help strengthen civil society as a necessary foundation of democracy and development. The Lambi Fund supports projects that embrace the following principles: non-violence, non-partisanship, community-based initiatives, advancement of women, using education and training for empowerment, and the overall democratic movement. The Lambi Fund is currently working on compiling stories/case studies from Haiti, including a focus on women's leadership, and its advocacy team is meeting with Haitian Ministers and policymakers.

National Federation of Women’s Institutes (UK)
The National Federation of Women's Institutes (WI), the largest voluntary organization for women in the United Kingdom, plays a unique role in providing women with educational opportunities and the chance to build new skills, to take part in a wide variety of activities, and to campaign on issues that matter to them and their communities. The WI runs several projects that seek to tackle members' engagement on climate change, as well as raise awareness about the way climate change impacts on women in other countries. It is currently working on a lobbying manifesto, organizing a national postcard campaign, and planning regional events for awareness raising.

Population Action International
Population Action International (PAI) works to ensure that every person has the right and access to sexual and reproductive health, so that humanity and the natural environment can exist in balance and fewer people live in poverty. PAI’s Climate Change Initiative is an ambitious multi-year program of research, advocacy, and strategic communications designed to bring our experience and expertise to the critical and complex relationships among population, gender, and climate change. Specific program areas with a gender focus include: Case Studies of Climate Change Resilience; Population, Gender, and National Climate Change Strategies; Population, Gender, and the UNFCCC; and Population, Gender, Climate and the U.S. Government.

Oxfam International
Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 like-minded organizations working together and with partners and allies around the world to bring about lasting change. Oxfam works directly with communities and it seeks to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them. Oxfam’s mission is to work with others to end poverty and injustice using diverse strategies that range from campaigning to responding to emergencies. Oxfam has acknowledged climate change is already having a disproportionate impact on people in poor communities, and it's hitting women hardest. Oxfam's video series Sisters on the Planet is a compilation of short films that show women, in both rich and poor countries, who are determined to do whatever they can to put a stop to climate change. Oxfam is currently working on a policy piece to accompany Sisters on the Planet video series and launch event.

VisAble Data
VisAble Data specializes in data visualization and information design that supports progressive social, environmental, and human rights agendas. Combining a focused gender analysis and experience in development issues with the latest digital technologies, VisAble uses the art and science of information design to provide decision making tools that empower a wide range of stakeholders. VisAble is currently developing a program that uses data visualization about gender and climate change for advocacy and policy development.

Women’s Climate Initiative
Women's Climate Initiative (WCI) is a private/public partnership seeking to empower women as leaders and active agents in adapting to, mitigating, and reducing the adverse effects of climate change. WCI is creating a global awareness-raising campaign founded by a private sector partner on the unique impact of climate change on women. WCI will also develop directly funded leadership/sustainable development programs that support women’s effort to adapt to/mitigate climate change. WCI will also conduct and publish gender-specific climate change research.
www.womensclimateinitiative.org

WEDO (Women’s Environment and Development Organization)
Women's Environment and Development Organization's (WEDO) mission is the recognition that women’s empowerment and gender equality are key levers of change. WEDO co-leads the GGCA Advocacy Team with ENERGIA. The Advocacy Team works with all members of the GGCA providing technical assistance to governments toward a gender-sensitive international climate change agreement. WEDO has been developing partnerships with civil society organizations and governments in developing countries as part of a national Climate Change & Gender Mobilization Project to deliver real results for women on the ground, and is currently working on a pilot project to integrate gender into national climate change responses. WEDO advocates for climate change financing that is gender sensitive and is working with partners in Africa and Asia to produce case studies and to develop a platform to impact key global processes. WEDO is also analyzing the major market-based approaches to climate change mitigation, including large-scale bio-fuel production and carbon trading, from a gender perspective. WEDO and UNFPA produced a toolkit and guidelines for advocates and practitioners with case studies.
www.wedo.org

WOCAN (Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and NRM)
The objective of WOCAN is to address the major gaps that emerge from the knowledge and experiences of sustainable and rural development processes, in relation to policies regarding gender within the agriculture and natural resource management sectors, roles of professional women in implementing policy objectives for rural women’s empowerment and gender equality within these sectors, and organizational barriers that obstruct women from realizing positions of leadership and influence to take on such roles. WOCAN is part of the GGCA advocacy team at global and regional UNFCCC sessions and has provided leadership on REDD in collaboration with IUCN and GGCA. WOCAN is currently the co-facilitator of the Women's Major Group in the Commission on Sustainable Development and has launched Payment for Environmental Services pilot projects with rural women’s groups in Nepal and Northeast India to tap into carbon markets. WOCAN in collaboration with Heifer International is targeting institutions to mainstream gender and make them accountable to women’s groups in Ghana, Cameroon, India and Nepal, and Heifer offices in 5 African countries.
www.wocan.org

Young Volunteers for the Environment
Young Volunteers for the Environment works to empower youths to understand their surroundings and to take the necessary actions for a positive and harmonious interaction. Young Volunteers for the Environment is active in various fields, such as environmental education, solar cooking, agroforestry, biodiversity and genetically modified organisms, climate change, sustainable pesticide disposal, youth employment, community service, international summer youth camps, international workshops, ICTs, tree planting, and AIDS awareness campaigns. Young Volunteers for the Environment has taken leadership in the GGCA Advocacy Team, particularly in partnership with African UNFCCC delegations.
www.ong-jve.org