10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

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10 episodes

1 month ago

For this last interview of our podcast series, I am delighted to receive Evelyne Batamuliza to talk about women’s access to climate finance. We discuss the fact that gender equality is now well embedded in international climate frameworks and funds, but there is still very limited funding reaching women and women’s organizations. She calls for deliberate efforts to fill this gap, making sure that women are at the decision-making table when it comes to climate actions and climate finance at gl...

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Episodes (10/10)

10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

Women's increased access to climate investments

5 years ago

26 minutes

10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

Sustainable and inclusive food systems

Today we speak with Eve Crowley, FAO Deputy Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean and FAO Representative in Chile, about the role of women in food systems, and how to design sustainable and inclusive food systems. She shares the example of the Food System Council of Lima (Consejo del Sistema Alimentario de Lima, CONSIAL), which takes an innovative holistic and gender responsive approach. Prior to her appointment as FAO Representative in Chile, Eve Crowley was Deputy Dire...

5 years ago

32 minutes

10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

Feminist Leadership

Today we speak with Amanda Ellis about feminist leadership and what it means in the context of COVID-19 and commitments for a sustainable development. She talks about the correlation between gender balance in boards and governance bodies, and sustainability, and shares her insights on how to increase women’s participation in leadership and decision making. Amanda Ellis currently serves as ASU Director Global Partnerships for the Global Futures Laboratory and Executive Director Hawaii/As...

5 years ago

32 minutes

10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

Nature-based solutions

Today we speak with Lorena Aguilar about nature-based solutions, and the important role that women play in the effective implementation of those solutions. Lorena is a global leader passionate about inclusion and sustainable development issues, with extensive experience leading inclusive collaboration with government counterparts, UN agencies, international organizations and civil society. She has field experience in more than 50 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern E...

5 years ago

24 minutes

10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

Investments with social and environmental impacts

In this episode, we speak with Neera Van der Geest, CEO of the FairClimateFund, a social venture that invests and trades in CO2 reduction certificates that benefit people, mostly women and children, that are most vulnerable to climate change to give them a more sustainable livelihood. Neera shares her perspective on the importance of investing for social and environmental impacts and calls for more transparency in the way impact is measured and how benefits are shared with those that enable t...

5 years ago

30 minutes

10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

Capacity development to cope with and adapt to change

In this episode, Colletah Chitsike shares her perspective on the capacities than are needed to cope with change and build resilience. She highlights the importance of participatory approaches such as Women Leadership Circles and mentoring and calls for more resources to be allocated for education and capacity development. Colletah Chitsike is a trainer and capacity building specialist with a Masters Degree in Adult Education from the University of Zimbabwe. She has extensive experience in Com...

5 years ago

25 minutes

10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

Recognizing and supporting women's organizations

Joining us today on this podcast is Dibya Devi Gurung, a Core Associate of WOCAN, to talk about the role of women's organizations in building social and climate resilience of communities. She shares her perspective from Nepal and calls for more recognition of the value and contributions of women to climate resilience and the urgent need to direct more resources to their organizations. Dibya Devi Gurung holds a Masters Degree in biological science and has more than 24 years of professional ex...

5 years ago

18 minutes

10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

Institutional transformation and culture change

In this episode, we talk with Barun Gurung about the institutional transformation and cultural change that is needed for organizations to be more inclusive, nimble, and better equipped to better adapt and respond to crisis. Barun Gurung is an anthropologist with training in ecological anthropology. He has over 15 years of global experience, in particular with ethnic communities in the Himalayan region and across Asia. Among other things, Barun has led a global program for the CGIAR Gro...

5 years ago

15 minutes

10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

Measuring impacts for increased transparency and results

In this episode, we talk with Cathy Lee about the importance of measuring impacts to ensure that funds will indeed support sustainable, climate-smart and inclusive initiatives, and contribute to 'building back better'. She shares her perspective on the need for standards to go beyond 'do no harm' to women and gives the example of the W+ Standard, which supports transparency in evaluating claims of women’s empowerment and ensures that benefits that are claimed to be happening or promised in fu...

5 years ago

21 minutes

10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient Recovery

Compensation for women's social and environmental contributions

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Jeannette Gurung about how compensating women’s social and environmental contributions is a solution for a more resilient post COVID-19 recovery. She presents the W+ Standard, the first women-specific standard that quantifies, values and monetizes the results of projects on women’s lives - and brings to light women's contributions to climate related projects. Those results are translated in W+ units available for sale. A share of the value of the W+ units goe...

5 years ago

22 minutes