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, […]
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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
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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 […]
Featured, News
Quantifying the Benefits of Women’s Empowerment: The Missing Metric for Game-Changing Climate Action
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The W+ Standard is the first globally recognized framework that measures and monetizes women’s empowerment. Empower Co. is engaging with companies keen to cement their women’s-empowerment programs with robust data — and shift the mindset around climate action from mitigation to net positivity. Read more: https://sustainablebrands.com/read/new-metrics/quantifying-the-benefits-of-women-s-empowerment-the-missing-metric-for-game-changing-climate-action
Featured, Podcast
W+ Dialogues: How can the W+ Standard stimulate women’s empowerment in the forest sector?
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[buzzsprout episode=’11120976′ player=’true’] The W+ Standard measures the results of women’s empowerment within the development and climate projects. Jeannette Gurung (Executive Director of WOCAN) discusses how the application of the W+ Standard to forestry programs of Nepal – a country with a rich history of women’s groups managing community forests – could provide a ‘best-case’ […]
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Paul Hawken is a thought leader in the climate change community and is the founder of both Project Drawdown and Project Regeneration. Project Regeneration is the world’s largest, most complete listing and network of solutions to the climate crisis. His Regeneration newsletter of 23 May 2022 recently featured the W+ Standard as a climate solution. […]
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We want to welcome our new Advisory Council member Caroline Stillman. Caroline is Projects and Social Impacts officer at the Plan Vivo Foundation, a charitable organization and carbon standard that focuses on holistic impacts for nature, climate and communities. Caroline works closely with projects and focuses on increasing the positive impacts for people. They hold […]