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Nov
Jeannette Gurung will be at the COP28 in Dubai, UAE from 4th – 10th December 2023 and is looking forward to connecting with you in person. It will be an opportunity to exchange ideas about some of the trends and discussions surrounding climate action today. Topics we’d be interested to discuss include: 1. Enhancing the […]
Nov
WOCAN and the W+ Standard will present changes made to its W+ Standard and Guidance documents, recently revised to enhance its requirements for No Net Harm and women’s empowerment claims of projects. Panelists will present the key changes to the W+ Standard, why they are necessary, and application to a project with strong women’s leadership […]
W+ Program Guide – Version 2.0 Updates on the W+ Program Guide document to ensure the W+ Standard is up to date, assuring its integrity and readiness for more uptake. The W+ Standard is seeking comments on the W+ Program Guide 2.0 until 15 August 2023. To respond to the questions and submit your feedback, […]
Despite their enormous potential to produce and scale up solutions for climate change, food insecurity and poverty, women’s groups often still lack the resources and recognition they need to succeed. Seeing this, Jeannette Gurung, Executive Director at Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN), set out to provide new, direct, revenue […]
Simply counting the number of women participating in a given initiative is an inadequate measure of effective gender equality. It is more important to examine the impact of their contributions, says Jeannette Gurung, the founder and executive director of Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) who developed a unique certification framework, the W+ […]
WOCAN has received a grant for Assessing the Landscape: Climate Adaptation, Women’s Organizations & Enterprises from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to design an innovative model in gender-responsive climate adaptation and resilience. The intended outcome of this planning grant is the development of a Strategy Implementation Framework to provide a clear path for rural women’s […]
The REDD Implementation Center, World Bank Nepal and WOCAN organized three stakeholder workshops in Lumbini and Madhesh provinces and information session in Kathmandu to provide information on the W+ Standard and readiness for gender action in REDD+ between December 4 to 9, 2022 in Nepal. The objective of the workshops and Information session was to […]
Climate Change, Featured, News
Changing business as usual in global climate and development action: Making space for social justice in carbon markets
Dec
A B S T R A C T Carbon markets are being promoted both by businesses and governments as a predominant way to address climate change. Critical scholarship on climate change has brought attention to their disappointing climate performance, for the social and geopolitical inequalities they engender, and for distracting from the imperative of changing […]
Oct
Empower Co. hosted the reception during the NYC Climate week to showcase W+ Standard to scale quantifiable women’s empowerment impact. Jeannette and Rachel presented a brief overview of W+ Standard and Empower Co. It was a diverse gathering of like-minds and hearts from financial institutions, academia, private sector organizations, NGOs, public sector groups, media, and […]