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Hybrid Discussion: Women’s Empowerment for Climate Action, The W+ Standard
2024-05-24 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | PwC London – Embankment, 1 Embankment Pl, London WC2N 6RH, Embankment, 1 Embankment Pl,, London, United Kingdom
Join us for a hybrid discussion on how the W+ Standard can provide solutions for gender-responsive climate goals through a market-based approach.
With Jeannette Gurung, Executive Director of WOCAN and Innovator of the W+ Standard – a certification framework that measures and monetizes women’s empowerment within climate and development projects.
The even is hosted by PwC and oragnized by Smita Biswas, Impact Lead of Green Cities and Infrastructure Programme.
Friday 24th May 2024 | 12:00 – 13:00pm
PwC London – Embankment, 1 Embankment Pl, London WC2N 6RH
For those joining virtually please use this Microsoft Teams Link
To confirm in-person attendance, please email abigail.o.miller@pwc.com

Livestock Data and Climate Finance Solutions Group Write-shop, Scotland
2024-05-21 - 2024-05-22 | Dalmahoy Hotel & Country Club, EDINBURGH
Jeannette will be in Edinburg, Scotland from 21-22 May for the write-shop.

24-Hour Natural Climate Solutions Summit
2024-05-14 11:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
Across 24 hours, we’re passing the microphone all around the world, so businesses can learn:
✅ what #NaturalClimateSolutions are
✅ how they address the climate & nature crises and contribute to social development
✅ how to select credits from projects that make a real difference
Jeannett”s session takes place:
📅 14th May
⏲ 11:00 HST / 23:00 CEST
Registration is only open for buyers & investors. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gWjw4gmW

Women4Biodiversity & FACJ Action Coalition Virtual Learning Event
2024-02-19 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLrgBIDSIwCeam32yq0VZfVAZi2LZqnZ5gBwZmOOvhW3rtXQ/viewform

COP28: Measuring and Monetizing Women’s Empowerment within Climate Investments
2023-12-08 08:00 - 17:00 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Blue Zone, COP28, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Session Objectives:
As the W+ Standard increasingly proves to be a solution to gender-responsive climate finance, various partners are emerging to collaborate with WOCAN and utilize the W+ Standard.
In this session, panelists representing these organizations within the W+ Standard ecosystem:

Investors
Climate project developers
Carbon credit generators and traders
Women’s organizations managing community projects

Panelists will speak to how and why they employ the W+ Standard and how they see it improving climate outcomes.
The session also features practical application of the W+ Standard in projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America and its value as perceived by various stakeholders in the ecosystem.
About WOCAN and the W+ Standard
WOCAN created the W+ Standard in 2014 as a result-based financing and market-based framework to incentivize project developers to amplify support for gender /women’s empowerment and create new channels of revenue for grassroots women’s organizations. This innovation was inspired by the approach of carbon markets to monetize environmental impacts and channel capital to fund projects and benefit communities.
The W+ Standard is a framework for designing as well as monitoring results within projects and generates W+ credits—quantified and verified units of improvement in women’s conditions from a baseline in six domains. It has been applied to dozens of climate projects and can be combined with carbon credits as a co-benefit. A requirement of the W+ Standard is that at least 20 percent of the proceeds from the sale of these credits must be shared with women’s groups engaged in the project.
Moderator: Jeannette Gurung, Founder and Executive Director of Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN)
Panelists:

Edit Kiss, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Integrity Global Partners
Dr. Destenie Nock, Chief Sustainability Officer, Devvstream
Cecile Ndjebet, Founder and Director, REFACOF (African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests)

Speakers Bios:
Edit Kiss is Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer for Integrity Global Partners, a company enabling investors to unlock fair and equitable capital at scale through the development of carbon and other environmental assets. Edit currently leads all commercial origination and evaluation of projects, including all due diligence, risk assessment, and financial structuring on projects.Edit brings 17+ years of experience in the entire value chain of carbon markets – project development and finance, origination, investment deal structuring and execution, and sales and trading. She has experience working in financial institutions, carbon funds, and renewable energy companies in London, Paris, Lugano, Rotterdam, and Budapest.Edit is currently a Non-Executive Board Director of the UK’s first rewilding business, the Real Wild Estates Company; co-chair of IETA’s Natural Climate Solutions working group; Steering Committee Member and Co-Chair of the Biodiversity Credits Working Group of the Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation (CPIC). Previous roles included: Chief Investment Officer at Revalue Nature, Investment and Development Director at Mirova Natural Capital, Structured Origination Manager, REDD+ specialist at Eneco Energy Trade, Carbon Originator at Constellation Energy.
Destenie Nock is the Chief Sustainability Officer of DevvStream, a carbon streaming company. She is also an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Public Policy and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a leader in energy justice, environmental justice, sustainable energy transitions, and the energy-poverty-climate change nexus. She has pioneered new measures of energy poverty to help utility companies identify vulnerable populations and energy deficits. From this work she has spun out a company, and is the Chief Executive Officer of Peoples Energy Analytics, a data driven company which uses energy analytics to identify poverty in vulnerable households.
Cécile Bibiane Ndjebet is President and Founder of the African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF) and the Coordinator of Cameroon Ecology. Cécile Bibiane Ndjebet is an agronomist and social forester from rural Cameroon who specializes in women’s leadership. Her extensive experience includes work that addresses gender’s intersection with land tenure, climate change, and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+). She was recently named a Champion of the Earth for Inspiration and Action by the UNEP following three decades of advocacy for women’s land rights in Africa. Cameroon Ecology, an organization she co-founded in 2001, has restored over 600 hectares of degraded land and mangrove forest. In 2009, she founded the African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF), which encourages the representation of women’s interests in environmental policies across 20 African countries. Cécile was elected Climate Change Champion of the Central African Commission on Forests in 2012 and serves as a member of the advisory board of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. She has won several awards, including the Gulbenkian Prize of Humanity Winner, 2023, UN Champion of The Earth, Category Inspiration and Action, 2022, Wangari Maathai Forests Champion, 2022, and COMIFAC Climate Change Champion, 2012.
Jeannette Gurung has over 25 years of experience designing and delivering capacity-strengthening programs to integrate gender and women’s empowerment into climate, agriculture and environment-related organizations and programs in over 25 countries and has been an innovator at the nexus of gender equality and climate-related sectors, working with both public and private organizations and projects. She is founder and Executive Director of WOCAN, a global network with over 1450 members in 1148 countries, to support capacity building for women’s leadership and empowerment and gender integration. She is a thought-leader in innovative financing for climate, gender and impact investing and creator of the W+ Standard to measure, quantify and monetize impacts of projects and supply chains on women’s empowerment, through the use of a results-based financing approach designed to provide incentives to projects and companies and new revenue streams to community-level women’s groups and enterprises. Jeannette is co-founder of the Women and Climate Impact Fund (https://www.wcifund.org)- a unique blended finance social investment fund to provide capital to projects that impact women’s empowerment and gender equality while reducing the effects of climate change, while using the W+ Standard to assure quality impacts. From her home base in Hawai’i, she is developing a Climate-resilient & Agricultural Innovation Hub for Women Farmers in Hawai’i County, to pilot innovations and practices to achieve climate and economic resilience through support to women farmers.
Jeannette has knowledge and experience with voluntary carbon markets and is currently a member of the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, Climate Impact X International Advisory Council, the Sustainable Development Advisory Group of Verra. She is also a member of the Women in Carbon Network, and the Gender and Environment Data Alliance Technical Guidance and Learning Working Group.
Jeannette has a MSc in forestry from the University of Washington, and a PhD in Gender and Development from the University of East Anglia. She has expertise in certification and standards, monitoring and evaluation, training, research, gender and organizational analysis, policy advocacy and network building. She has lived in several countries of South and SE Asia.

COP28: Women’s Participation in Climate Action and Sustainable Development: Bridging Gender Equality and Climate Solutions
2023-12-04 14:00 - 14:45 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Dubai Expo Pavilion, COP28, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Jennette will be speaking at the UN Global Compact’s panel discussion which will take place at the Dubai Expo Pavilion within the Green Zone at COP28 on 4 December 2023.
This session will explore the nexus of climate change and gender equality, a basic human right. Fulfilling this right is the best chance we have in meeting some of the most pressing challenges of our time – from economic crisis and lack of health care, to climate change, violence against women and escalating conflicts.
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate change and thus, in order for a highly impactful sustainable solution to be reached, women’s expertise and leadership at all levels is crucial to driving sustainable business performance and delivering on the goals of the Paris Agreement.
As we move towards COP28, it is crucial to recognize the intersectionality of gender and climate. This panel discussion will centre on the role of business in fostering inclusive climate action, with women at the forefront, to achieve a resilient, sustainable and equitable future.
REGISTER HERE
Session Objectives:

Increase awareness about the gendered impacts of climate change and how they disproportionately affect women and girls.
Discuss the need for gender-responsive policies and strategies to enhance women’s participation and leadership in climate action.
Explore the barriers and challenges faced by women in accessing climate finance, technology, and decision-making processes.
Share examples of successful initiatives that have effectively included women in climate solutions and the clean energy transition
Encourage collaboration between Governments, civil society organizations, the private sector, and initiatives like Forward Faster to promote women’s inclusion in climate solutions.

Panelists:

Moderator: Amanda Ellis, an expert on gender and climate change to provide insights into the gendered impacts of climate change and the importance of women’s participation
Vaishali Sinha, Corporate Sustainability Officer, ReNew Power: Co-founder of ReNew, a leading decarbonisation solutions company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker ‘RNW’. As Chairperson Sustainability, Vaishali has been responsible for ReNew’s emergence as a global ESG trailblazer, advancing the Net-Zero agenda, and delivering outcome-driven ESG strategies with top global rankings. Vaishali is also the Founding Chair of ReNew Foundation—the company’s philanthropic arm—driving the ReNew India Initiative for pathbreaking work in corporate social responsibility. Initiatives led by Vaishali have had an impact in the remotest corners of India, positively shaping more than 1 million lives across 250 villages in the country. One of the projects designed and implemented under her leadership has been a first-of-its kind program, showcased at the 2022 Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference (COP27), to train thousands of salt pan women workers in the country, helping them secure more remunerative jobs with significantly better working conditions in the clean energy sector.
Jeannette Gurung, Founder and Executive Director, WOCAN: offers tailored solutions for public and private entities to meet the gender requirements of climate funds, align with the goals of the Paris Agreement and contribute effectively to SDG Goal # 5 in order to implement bold climate action and sustainable development worldwide. WOCAN also focuses on women’s empowerment programs for renewable energy, climate-smart agriculture, and forest and water management solutions. They provide solutions to companies on understanding the risks and opportunities within their supply chains and CSR projects, and addressing consumer demands for effective social and climate actions.
Nidhi Pant, Co-Founder of S4S Technologies – a farm-gate food processing platform that converts farm losses into value-added products through the intervention of sustainable solar-powered technology. The organization increases family incomes and empowers women to be climate champions and decision-makers by transforming women farmers into micro-entrepreneurs through access to app-enabled market linkage, solar technology, bancarization, and financing. S4S Technologies works with over 24,000 farmers and 800 female entrepreneurs to prevent 40,000 tons of produce from being wasted and saves 37,000 tons of CO2 annually.

COP28: Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Finance in Africa
2023-12-04 09:00 - 10:30 (Asia/Dubai) | MDB Pavilion, COP28, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Jeannette will be on the panel during the African Development Bank Group’s COP28 Gender day session.
The side-event is designed to address the critical need for gender-responsive climate finance in transition countries and emerging economies. The complexities of transitions require innovative financial approaches that are not only adaptive but also inclusive of the unique challenges faced by women in these contexts. These financial mechanisms should be tailored to enhance women’s climate resilience.
This event will be held during the Gender, Finance and Trade Day at the MDB Pavilion on December 4 at 9:00 am local time.

W+ Standard Webinar: Raising the Bar for Higher Integrity
2023-11-28 05:00 - 06:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Online
WOCAN 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 in India.
Virtual location
You will receive a confirmation email with a URL
Nov 28, 2023 05:00am HST – Nov 28, 2023 06:30am HST
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Fostering Change: Online Dialogue on how to improve gender considerations within the VCM
2023-10-17 03:00 - 05:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
Recognizing the gender gaps and women’s under-representation in the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) and the positive impact a gender approach can bring to such work, the UN-REDD Programme is organizing this online dialogue to share awareness, build capacity and identify options to enhance gender mainstreaming within the VCM arena.
Jeannette and Sue will be speaking at this UNREDD online dialogue.
Join us on 17 Oct 2023, to share ideas in an interactive session on integrating gender in the VCM.
To engage in interactive discussions before the event, join our Gender Community of Practice: http://bit.ly/3PyX7oH
Register here: https://lnkd.in/dxkG3VTm

Climate Week NYC
2023-09-17 - 2023-09-20 | New York, NY, United States
Jeannette will be attending various events of the Climate Week NYC from Sept. 17-20. Please do reach out if you would like to meet up with her there.

Asia Pacific Workshop on Women’s Inclusion for Sustainable Forests and Climate
2023-08-26 08:00 - 2023-08-27 17:00 UTC | Meeting Hall, Bangkok, Thailand, Nepal
On 26-27 March, USAID LEAF Program, WOCAN & UNREDD organizes the Asia Pacific Workshop on Women’s Inclusion for Sustainable Forests and Climate: What works? in Bangkok, Thailand.

GEF Assembly Side-Event
2023-07-25
WOCAN is organizing a side event at the GEF Assembly at 9 AM on Aug 22, in Room 3, entitled An innovative investment model for gender-responsive climate mitigation and adaptation using the W+ Standard.
The panel consists of gender and climate finance experts from FOLUR (GEF partner), women-owned impact finance companies, and climate and ESG project funders who will discuss this alternative model and how it presents gender and climate justice solutions that can be supported by investors.
WOCAN is organizing a side event at the GEF Assembly at 9 AM on Aug 22, in Room 3, entitled An innovative investment model for gender-responsive climate mitigation and adaptation using the W+ Standard.
The panel consists of gender and climate finance experts from FOLUR (GEF partner), women-owned impact finance companies, and climate and ESG project funders who will discuss this alternative model and how it presents gender and climate justice solutions that can be supported by investors.

Jeannette Gurung
Kaylene Alvarez, Athena Global and WOCAN
David Oliver, Devvstream
Patti Kristjanson, PROGREEN of the World Bank
Tanushree Bagh, W+ Advisory Committee

WOCAN is developing an alternative investment model – with partners that include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- that assures benefits of climate projects go to women’s organizations and enterprises to meet their needs for sufficient and sustained financial and technical support for climate adaptation. The model employs the W+ Standard as a results-based financing and market-based approach through the generation of gender credits (W+ Credits) that can be combined with carbon credits.
The use of the W+ Standard thus enables the movement of capital for women’s empowerment, by tapping mitigation finance to provide for climate adaptation purposes, through its requirement of revenue sharing with local women’s groups.
Kaylene, Tanushree and Jeannette will be at the conference through Friday morning and will be available to engage in any panels or discussions. For more info please contact nishaonta@wocan.org

Jeannette Gurung
Kaylene Alvarez, Athena Global and WOCAN
David Oliver, Devvstream
Patti Kristjanson, PROGREEN of the World Bank
Tanushree Bagh, W+ Advisory Committee

WOCAN is developing an alternative investment model – with partners that include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- that assures benefits of climate projects go to women’s organizations and enterprises to meet their needs for sufficient and sustained financial and technical support for climate adaptation. The model employs the W+ Standard as a results-based financing and market-based approach through the generation of gender credits (W+ Credits) that can be combined with carbon credits.
The use of the W+ Standard thus enables the movement of capital for women’s empowerment, by tapping mitigation finance to provide for climate adaptation purposes, through its requirement of revenue sharing with local women’s groups.
Kaylene, Tanushree and Jeannette will be at the conference through Friday morning and will be available to engage in any panels or discussions. For more info please contact nishaonta@wocan.org

WOCAN Is Now A Member Of The USAID Climate Finance Investment Network (CFIN)
2023-03-16
USAID has launched the Climate Finance Investment Network (CFIN) which is managed by the Climate Finance for Development Accelerator (CFDA), also known as “the Accelerator”. This is a $250 million initiative designed to mobilize $2.5 billion in public and private climate investments by 2030. These investments will fund a range of climate change mitigation and adaptation activities focused on scaling up the transition to an equitable and resilient net-zero economy. The Accelerator is designed to help countries meet their national commitments in alignment with the Paris Agreement.
CFIN will bring together climate finance stakeholders across a diverse set of sectors and emerging and frontier markets to partner with USAID to crowd in private sector climate financing through learning, partnership facilitation, and catalytic grants. The Accelerator also welcomes local partners in the countries in which USAID works to co-create and design initiatives to meet national and local climate goals. If you are interested in joining the CFIN or becoming a climate finance partner eligible to receive support from the Accelerator, please click here to complete our partnership intake form or email us at info_cfda@chemonics.com for more information.

Training Course On The Application Of The W+ Standard, Nepal
2023-03-01
WOCAN is facilitating a training course on applying the W+ Standard in Butwal, Nepal from 4-9 March 2023. Twelve staff and stakeholders of World Bank Nepal’s Forest for Prosperity Project will attend this first phase of training which consists of an introduction to the W+ Standard, learning how to develop the project Idea note, and project design document, and establishing a baseline study.
This training is part of the collaboration with the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes (PROGREEN) program. PROGREEN supports rural livelihood development and landscape restoration while tackling declining biodiversity, forest loss, and deteriorating land fertility. PROGREEN’s Gender and Vulnerability Program aims to help project teams and partners address the gender gaps. It identifies potential gender-responsive, cross-cutting activities for PROGREEN initiatives, as well as potential project/country-specific activities. WOCAN (Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and NRM) is contracted to build a Gender Certification Capacity for Landscape Projects.
The overall goal of this initiative is to provide knowledge and strengthen the capacity of project teams and country counterparts to apply the W+ Standard within integrated landscape projects and programs that significantly contribute to women’s empowerment are measurable and measured and lead to direct benefits for women and women from vulnerable community members in particular.
The results of this initiative are expected to 1) demonstrating how to do so, and 2) building a ‘network’ of trained persons, inside of the country counterpart agencies and their partners, to enable the extension of this approach within the country and larger region.

Regional Dialogue Women’s Inclusion in Landscape Management in Asia
2014-10-07 08:00 - 2014-10-09 17:00 UTC | Meeting Hall, Bangkok, Thailand, Nepal
More than 40 representatives from communities, govt, NGOs, UN and donor agencies came together to explore best practices and the way forward at the ‘Regional Dialogue on Women’s Inclusion in Landscape Management in Asia’ held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on 7-9 October 2014.
The dialogue, supported by WOCAN, The Forest Dialogue (TFD) and RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, aimed to develop participants’ understanding of the current state of women’s exclusion/inclusion in landscape management, which includes sustainable forestry and farming practices and land-use approaches.
Participants identified the challenges to designing and implementing women-inclusive initiatives in landscape management, as well as shared experiences, practical approaches and actions that support women’s inclusion in Asia.

Reframing Leadership for Women and Men for Gender Equality Course in Bangkok, Thailand
2014-01-12 08:00 - 2014-01-16 17:00 UTC | Meeting Hall, Bangkok, Thailand, Nepal

Regional Workshop on Gender and CSA in ASEAN
2013-12-11 00:00 - 2013-12-13 00:00 UTC | Meeting Hall, Bangkok, Thailand, Nepal
On 11-12 Dec, Regional Workshop on Gender and Climate Smart Agriculture in ASEAN will be held in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop is organized jointly by the Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN), ASEAN Secretariat, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ). This regional workshop aims to support the integration of gender concerns into the ASEAN Multi-Sectoral Framework on Climate Change (AFCC): Agriculture and Forestry towards Food Security. This is in line with ASEAN commitment to promote gender equality and will contribute to the implementation of the Vientiane declaration on Enhancing gender perspective and ASEAN women’s partnership for environment sustainability.

Asia and the Pacific Regional High-level Consultation on Gender, Food Security and Nutrition
2013-07-24 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Meeting Hall, Bangkok, Thailand, Nepal
Day One: 24 July 2013
Plenary Session
– Welcome remarks by Ms Shireen Lateef, Senior Adviser (Gender), Asian Development Bank
– Remarks by Ms Jeannette Gurung, Executive Director, Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN)
– Remarks by Mr Hiroyuki Konuma, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific
– Opening statement by H.E. Yukol Limlamthong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand
Keynote speech:
Key gender, food and nutrition security issues in the Asia-Pacific region (including comparative perspective on the global front)Dr Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Session 1: Sharing experiences on gender, food security and nutrition in the region/sub-region in intervention
– Presentation by Ms Lourdes Adriano, ADB– Presentation by Dr Kraisit Tontisirin, Senior Advisor, National Food Committee, Thailand– Statement by H.E. Dato’ Tajuddin Bin Abdul Rahman, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry, Malaysia– Discussion of root cause of gender inequality, malnutrition and food insecurity /Q and A
Session 2: Strategic efforts and Regional Coordination in the Asia-Pacific region
– Presentation by Dr. Suriyan Vichitlekarn, Manager of GMS Agriculture Working Group Secretariat and former Head of Agriculture, ASEAN Secretariat– Remarks by Ms Seema Naidu, Gender issue Officer, PIFSLaunch of ADB & FAO Publication — Gender Equality and Food Security — Women’s Empowerment as a Tool against Hunger & Media briefing
Resource Persons
– Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapportuer– Hiroyuki Konuma, FAO
– Launch, Lourdes Adriano, ADB
Session 3: Break-out group session on good practices and lessons learned from country experiences
– Break-out Group 1: Rural poverty and linkages to social and gender-based disparities(Facilitator: Ms Karin Schelzig, Senior Social Sector Specialist, ADB/ Rapporteur:TBC)
– Break-out Group 2 : Gender and nutrition linkages for food security, economic and social wellbeing (Facilitator: Ms Nomindelger Bayaslaganbat, Nutrition officer, FAO/ Rapporteur:TBC)
– Break-out Group 3: Gaps and needs for gender-specific evidence and data on food and nutrition security (Facilitator: Mr Seevalingum Ramasawmy, FAO/ Rapporteur:TBC)
Plenary discussion on lesson learned from past and on-going experiences – Break-out presentations and discussion(Chair: WOCAN Rapporteur:TBC)

Learning Workshop
2012-01-25 08:00 - 2012-01-27 17:00 UTC | Meeting Hall, Bangkok, Thailand, Nepal
