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Advancing Gender Equality through Women-Led Climate Resilience
March 15, 2022 @ 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Organized by Pathfinder International
Advancing Gender Equality through Women-Led Climate Resilience
March 15, 2022
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We have seen how often the world’s toughest challenges are solved by investing in women and girls. To meet the gravest threat to our planet today, we must activate our greatest untapped resource: the resourcefulness, know-how, and leadership of women and girls.
Climate change threatens health and health systems in communities around the world. Countries like Pakistan, which is among the 10 countries most affected by extreme weather events; Niger, where more than 80% of the country’s population depends on agriculture; and Bangladesh, where climate change will displace 1 in 7 people by 2050 are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
Extreme weather caused by climate change is growing more severe, creating barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights and exacerbating the inequities women and girls face every day. Climate change issues have negative impacts on maternal health and create conditions that result in increases in gender-based violence, including harmful practices such as child marriage. These climate issues may further impact health system capacities, limiting the ability for individuals to access SRHR services.
Advancing gender equality is a focus of global convenings such as the Generation Equality Forum and climate negotiations. With the CSW focus on achieving gender equality in the context of climate change, policy, and programs, this is a pivotal time to ensure that gender equality is at the core of the climate agenda moving forward.
More information here: https://www.pathfinder.org/events/advancing-gender-equality-through-women-led-climate-resilience/
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