Verra and WOCAN Announce Streamlined Process to Assess Carbon Benefits and Women’s Empowerment Aspects of Projects Women play an essential role in addressing climate change and ensuring community resiliency, but their contributions are often invisible and undervalued. This is about to change as a result of a collaboration between the W+ StandardTM and the Verified […]
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Sep
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IHS Environmental Markit is the largest global voluntary registry for carbon, water and biodiversity. The role of the Registry is to track W+ environmental projects and issue, transact, and retire serialized credits. Markit in collaboration with the W+ Standard developed a Training Guide for project developers, which details the different steps from the creation of […]
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Jeannette Gurung will present the W+ Standard at the High-level event ‘Solutions for implementing gender-responsive climate action’ on 22 September 2019 from 10:00 am -11:30 am at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA. The event is organized by the governments of Costa Rica, Peru and Spain, in cooperation with UN Women and the UN […]
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This presentation introduces the W+Standard and how it addresses both climate and gender equality goals. The W+ Standard: Read the whole presentation
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Parties to the UNFCCC adopted a Gender Action Plan and included gender equality in the overarching text of the Paris Agreement. By doing so, governments recognized women as important agents of change in the fight against global warming. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize that gender equality and women’s empowerment are critical to achieving all […]
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May
May
The Measuring and Reporting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment for Climate and Sustainable Development Goals, on 6 Dec. 2018, was the first of a W+ webinar series that will continue in 2019. Jeannette Gurung, Executive Director of WOCAN, provided an overview of the recent trends and drivers for gender equality and introduced the W+ […]
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May
The W+ Standard is a unique certification label that measures, quantifies and monetizes the benefits of development and climate projects on women’s empowerment in six areas: Time, Income & Assets, Leadership, Education & Knowledge, Health, and Food Security. Certification requires independent verification of projects’ activities, results and impact. The Social Audit Network (SAN) UK provides […]
Impact Measurement
Measuring and Reporting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment for Climate and SDGs
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Dec
Dec
The Measuring and Reporting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment for Climate and Sustainable Development Goals, on 6 Dec. 2018, was the first of a W+ webinar series that will continue in 2019. Jeannette Gurung, Executive Director of WOCAN, provided an overview of the recent trends and drivers for gender equality and introduced the W+ […]
Gender Lens Investing
The W+ Standard White Paper: Accelerating Investments in Women through Certification
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Feb
Feb
This white paper makes the case for a new and innovative option for a certification system that channels measureable and verifiable benefits directly to women and women’s organizations. The W+ Standard (W+) is designed to incentivize investments in women’s empowerment through a system that both measures results and puts money into the hands of women, […]
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This factsheet presents the W+ Standard with examples of outcomes and indicators for each of the six domains. Read the factsheet Photo ©: SNV