W+: Ensuring Benefits to Women
Supporting Women’s Empowerment throughClimate Mitigation Projects
Event: Side Event, COP19
Date: 19 Nov. Tuesday, Gender Day
Time: 16:45-18:15
Room: Torun
Organizer:Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN)
Speakers: Code REDD, South Pole Group andWildlife Works Carbon
In most of the world, the contribution of women to creating environmental and social capital is neither adequately recognized nor compensated. While ongoing efforts to quantify and monetize the delivery of development benefits through results-based approaches have produced operational frameworks and led to the creation of environmental capital, i.e. in the form of carbon credits from climate mitigation activities, such frameworks currently do not specifically recognize the contributions of women.
While WOCAN recognizes the beneficial discussion on ‘co-benefits’ within the context of the CDM, it has decided to go further and develop the W+ Standard to facilitate the quantification, monetization and transfer of social capital to women in relation to six women’s empowerment-related development domains: income and assets, time, health, education, leadership and food security.
The W+ Standard is modeled on the procedures and methods of established carbon standards. It seeks to provide a trusted platform that allows development agencies, impact investors, organizations and companies interested in CSR to channel financial resources into projects that increase social capital created by women while providing assurance that results are real and quantified.
The side event will introduce W+ key design features and how these are applied to two pilot projects that are under implementation.
Speakers:
Kate Dillon Levin, Corporate Partnerships, Code REDD
Empowering Women: Aligning Private Sector Priorities with REDD+
Ingo Puhl, Director Strategy & Founding Partner, South Pole Group
Development of Procedures and Architecture to Monetize Development Benefits for Women
Mike Korchinky, Founder and CEO, Wildlife Works Carbon
An Opportunity to Implement W+ in the Transformational REDD+ Project Development & Management in Africa
Jeannette Gurung, Executive Director, WOCAN
From the Women’s Carbon Standard to the W+: Progress in the development of the first standard measuring benefits to women andits application to the AEPC biogas program in Nepal
For more info on W+ Standard: www.wplus.org