Welcome to the fifth edition of GEDA Insights, the Gender and Environment Data Alliance’s Newsletter. As an alliance of more than 80 organizations, GEDA serves as a hub to foster collaborations and joint action among diverse organizations working on the intersection of gender and environment through a data lens. In this issue, we interview Core Partner Madani Foundation for Development and founding member GenderCC, share new resources and opportunities on topics from finance to health to migration, and cover our members’ engagement at CSW68, among other exciting news!
Thank you for reading and sharing!
WEDO & IUCN on behalf of GEDA
GEDA members are working on timely new projects at the gender-environment-data nexus across the world. Check out the latest resources from the GEDA Network:
Gender Equality for
Greener and Bluer Futures
Rise Grants Challenge and Call for Proposals
May 2024
GEDA at CSW68
March 2024
GEDA was well represented in CSW68 through the various events of our members and allies:
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IWDA’s “Innovating Poverty Measurement for Inclusion: Leading from the Pacific” parallel event, where the Equality Insights team, Solomon Islands and Tonga partners covered the implications of ignoring gendered realities and the power of individual-level, gender-sensitive multidimensional measurement and data for revealing and responding to lived realities as demonstrated in the Tonga 2022 survey.
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Data2X’s event on “The Politics of Gender Data: Mobilizing Championship and Driving Political Will” delved into new research on mapping the political environment for gender data across thirty countries, with a particular focus on Africa.
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An “Intersectional Data Roundtable” convened by the Center for Global Development, Open Data Watch, Data2X, and UNFPA offered the opportunity for collective reflection on a new “living paper” on Intersectionality in Development Data and its relevant applications, including in the context of LGBTQIA+ groups among other dimensions of data disaggregation and intersectionality.
A side event on Connecting The Dots: Investing in Gender Data for Gender Equality, co-hosted by PARIS21, Open Data Watch, Equality Insights, Data2X, and UN Women, focused on financing gender data systems as a pivotal catalyst for gender equality.
Other Events
Ka‘a I Ka Wiwo‘ole: Brave Enough From the Frontlines of Our Climate Resilient Futures
January – March 2024
The Institute for Climate and Peace, GEDA member, launched its newest program: Ka‘a I Ka Wiwo‘ole: Brave Enough From the Frontlines of Our Climate Resilient Futures, which uplifts girl- and women-led climate justice efforts in Hawaiʻi. This multigenerational training and mentorship program supports women and girls to engage in learning about local, Indigenous, and ancient knowledge systems that uphold values of mālama ʻāina that perpetuate the well-being of our lands and our people from mauka (mountainside) and makai (oceanside). Participants engaged in a climate and gender roundtable and discourse on leadership, goal setting, and futures-thinking while connecting deeper with the environment, each other, and the wider community. For more information or ways to get involved, please contact info@climateandpeace.org.
Experiences and Good Practices in Gender Action Plans To Generate a Safe and Enabling Environment for Women Environmental Defenders
April 22, 2024
The side event at the COP3 of the Escazú Agreement titled “Experiences and good practices in gender action plans to generate a safe and enabling environment for women environmental defenders,” featuring the participation of IUCN and WEDO as two of the panelists and that brought to light the lack of data as a hindrance for achieving the protection of women environmental defenders (recording available in Spanish).
Welcome to GEDA’s new Steering Committee!
We are so excited and proud to announce GEDA’s new Steering Committee, effective April 2024 for a two-year term. This first official Steering Committee consists of the following organizations:
And WEDO and the IUCN as the secretariat! Core Partners International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) and Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) will serve as alternates. Please join us in welcoming them!
Check out GEDA’s new LinkedIn page, and tag us in your posts related to gender-environment data!
