Report launch: making space for women leadership in biodiversity data and evidence
This online event launched a report on advancing gender justice in biodiversity data and policy.
Lethiwe Moyo, farmer from Zimbabwe, checks her field for good condition (Photo: UNDP Climate, via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)
Gender justice and biodiversity conservation are deeply interconnected. Across regions, women-led and community-based organisations are already generating substantial, decision-relevant biodiversity evidence. But biodiversity data systems continue to overlook this.
The challenge is not a lack of data, but a lack of recognition, integration, resourcing and clear pathways for this evidence to influence policy and decision-making.
To address this gap, the CBD Women’s Caucus and IIED conducted an assessment exploring how women-led and community-based organisations engage with biodiversity data, the constraints they face, and the opportunities for strengthening gender-responsive biodiversity monitoring systems.
The findings of the assessment (PDF) point to the urgent need for structural changes in the biodiversity data chain, and led IIED and the CBD Women’s Caucus to call for recognition and partnership with women’s organisations as key contributors to the implementation and accountability of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
The report is also available in French (en français (PDF)) and in Spanish (en español (PDF)).
This event and launch of the report presented its key findings and recommendations, and explored the structural changes needed to build truly gender-responsive monitoring systems.
It also created space to discuss priority areas for parties, funders and multilateral actors working towards transformative implementation of the global biodiversity framework; and to share next steps, including the roll-out of a peer-to-peer learning process designed to strengthen women’s organisations’ gender-responsive biodiversity data systems.
Speakers
- Karen Wong Pérez, senior researcher, IIED
- Shruti Ajit, project officer, CBD Women Caucus
- Ceire Booth, programme officer, Policy Innovation Area, UNEP-WCMC
- Venge Nyirongo, intergovernmental specialist (climate change, sustainable development and the Rio conventions), UN Women
- Marina Lopez, gender focal point, Guatemala
- Charlotte Clare, advocacy and research officer, Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
Event coverage
Watch a video recording of the report launch below or on YouTube.
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Contact
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