5 09, 2017

Strengthening The Capacity of Women Organizations to Deliver on Gender and SDGs in Nigeria

By | 2023-03-13T08:37:23+00:00 September 5th, 2017|External news|0 Comments

Written by Damilola Adeoye for C21st Nigeria August 4, 2017 Participants@ the training Overtime, various attempts have been made to reduce the level of poverty in Africa, improve women’s socio-economic status, and ensure their access to land, water, sanitation and energy but it always appears no significant results have been achieved. The efforts [...]

5 09, 2017

Bangladesh Workshop for Women 2030- Gender Monitoring of SDGs

By | 2023-03-13T08:37:23+00:00 September 5th, 2017|GWA, Trainings (ToT)|0 Comments

Our partner GWA organised a 2-day workshop in April with the goal of explaining and planning the partners’ activities in the EU-funded Women2030 project in Bangladesh for the coming years. Link to full report: http://genderandwater.org/en/bangladesh/gwapb-products/capacity-building/bangladesh-workshop-for-women-2030-gender-monitoring-of-sdgs/at_download/file  

5 09, 2017

GWA partners in #Women2030 – an EU funded global alliance to realize the SDGs

By | 2023-03-13T08:37:23+00:00 September 5th, 2017|GWA|0 Comments

Since May 2016 the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) is partner coordinator in #Women2030, an alliance of 5 global and regional women and gender networks collaborating to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a gender equitable and climate-just way. Start-up meeting of Women2030 partners in Nairobi, May 2016 Since May 2016 the [...]

5 09, 2017

Forest Cover 51 – Mainstreaming biodiversity? Mainstream equity and justice

By | 2023-03-13T08:37:24+00:00 September 5th, 2017|Climate, GFC, Outreach|0 Comments

  Welcome to Forest Cover No. 51, the Global Forest Coalition newsletter that provides a space for Southern and Northern environmental justice activists to present their views on international forest-related policies. In this 51st edition of Forest Cover we examine the importance of incorporating a gender perspective in biodiversity conservation and the launching of the [...]

4 09, 2017

Update on Recent Makurdi Floods

By | 2023-03-13T08:37:24+00:00 September 4th, 2017|News, Water, WEP|0 Comments

Makurdi floods: Governments urged to be responsive to displaced persons Shared by WEP Written by Damian Daga, Makurdi The Federal and Benue State governments have been asked to be responsible and responsive to the plight of displaced persons in the recent Makurdi floods. […]

4 09, 2017

Interesting view on Breastfeeding

By | 2023-03-13T08:37:24+00:00 September 4th, 2017|News, WECF|0 Comments

Breastfeeding, a key component in the actualisation of the Sustainable Development Goals and in combatting climate change.  "Breast-feeding cuts out numerous processes that contribute to global warming, whether that is by bypassing the activities of the global dairy industry — and its large transport networks — or avoiding the industrial processes that produce infant formula [...]