A NEW AGENT WEBINAR
Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages: From knowledge to action
Addressing gender-based violence in conservation
Thursday, 10 December 2020
9:00 - 10:30 AM EST
USAID is pleased to announce four new grantees from its Resilient, Inclusive, Sustainable Environments (RISE) Challenge who will work to address gender-based violence (GBV) in forestry and wildlife conservation sectors. Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT), a partnership between USAID and IUCN, invites you to join us on International Human Rights Day to reflect on the end of this year's 16 Days Campaign to End Violence Against Women Campaign, as well as welcome these four new grantees. The grantees from Guatemala, Kenya, Peru, and Vietnam will shed light on the challenges and strategies to address GBV in forestry and wildlife conservation sectors. IUCN will also share new programming and project planning tools to inform and support further action to address GBV in environmental programming.

Live interpretation in English, French, and Spanish will be provided during this webinar.
ABOUT RISE
ABOUT THE GBV-ENV CENTER
Responding to the challenge

Responding to GBV can provide opportunities for both enhanced environmental action and women’s empowerment, but tackling one issue without addressing the other is unlikely to succeed.

USAID’s RISE Challenge aims to identify and implement interventions to reduce GBV in environmental programming.

This challenge aims to fund organizations to innovatively adapt and implement promising or proven practices that have been used to effectively prevent and respond to GBV in other sectors to environmental programming. The challenge will draw insights from other development and humanitarian sectors that have proven or promising practices to address GBV.

RISE incentivizes partnerships between environmental organizations, local communities, indigenous peoples organizations, and gender and GBV experts who can help bridge knowledge gaps and work to build an evidence base of effective GBV interventions.

Visit RISE for more information on the challenge and grantees!
It all started with a question: Are there gender-based violence and environment links?

IUCN and USAID, together through the Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT) partnership, embarked on a two-year research process to identify and understand gender-based violence and environment linkages across sectors and contexts. Many experts, informants, and collaborators contributed to this effort.

Published earlier this year, Gender-based violence and environment linkages: The violence of inequality presents evidence from around the world, showing that violence is regularly used to exert or reinforce control over natural resources, with environmental pressures and threats exacerbating violence.

In addition to spurring new investments such as through RISE and garnering attention from media, the research has resulted in the creation of a hub for resources, learning and action: hosted by IUCN through AGENT, the Gender-Based Violence-Environment Linkages Center (GBV-ENV Center) curates additional tools, news, and technical support through an online platform that is now available for wide application and use.

Share your tools and explore the GBV-ENV Center in English, Spanish, and French today!
ABOUT AGENT
Filling information gaps | Making the case for gender integration | Tailored technical support

Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT) is a ten-year partnership between IUCN and USAID with the purpose of increasing the effectiveness of environment programming through the robust integration of gender considerations, improving gender equality and women’s empowerment outcomes in a broad range of environmental sectors.

AGENT provides an array of support for national, regional and global environmental activities to advance women’s empowerment and gender equality. AGENT’s support is designed to complement existing or emerging USAID environmental efforts. Also a buy-in mechanism, AGENT broadens the reach of technical support, builds evidence for gender integration throughout environmental sectors, fills critical information gaps, and develops targeted resources and tools that can be directly applied in Agency programs, training, and communications.
You can learn more about AGENT here and more about RISE here.
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