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WOCAN, established in 2004, is a women-led international membership network of women and men professionals and women’s associations.

WOCAN is a pioneer in gender equality and climate change discourse and interventions, an innovative thought leader, and has provided technical guidance to hundreds of organizations globally.

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Revealing women’s potential with the W+ Standard

The W+ StandardTM, created by WOCAN, is the first women-specific standard that measures women’s empowerment in a transparent and quantifiable manner, gives a monetary value to results and creates a new channel to direct financial resources to women.

The W+ Standard is not subject to any exclusive arrangements with any project developer, funder, broker or financial intermediary.

W+ Measurement in Cambodia - Chea Sophon interviewing farmer Khem Peach in Chrey Cheung village.

Time Savings

Time is a key factor for women’s empowerment. Many organizations support women’s entrepreneurship, education, maternal health, and food security in the developing world. But until women are freed from the necessary chores that consume so much time, they will make little progress in other areas.

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Income & Assets

In many regions of the world, women have very limited access to financial or technical assets. Owning property (tools, livestock, land, jewelry), controlling money (having a personal bank account), and making independent decisions about resource use are important leverage points for empowerment.

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Education & Knowledge

The benefits of female education for women’s empowerment and gender equality are broadly recognized:

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Health

According to the UNICEF, 66% of the world’s work is done by women. This includes work inside the home as care-givers for children and seniors, paid and un-paid labor, food production (cultivating crops, collecting and storing harvests) and resource management (water and fuel).

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Food Security

Improvements in Food Security are critical for women’s attainment of economic, social and health improvements. Women are often responsible for ensuring that their families are fed, yet they themselves may go without adequate nutrition.

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Leadership

Within developing economies, women are still widely under-represented in decision-making at all levels, in the household, in businesses, and in the public sphere. Addressing these inequities through laws and public policy is a way of formalizing the goal of gender equality.

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Courses & Trainings

Gender Integrated Planning (5 days)

Gender-integrated planning requires conducting a gender analysis at each stage of the project cycle: situation analysis, setting objectives, developing activities and inputs, and establishing a monitoring and evaluation mechanism. This course provides participants with knowledge to not only use gender analysis tools to gather gender-sensitive data, but also use that data to plan in a systematic way.

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Authored by Jeannette Gurung, commissioned by the IFAD and published by PROGREEN, for the World Bank, this summary presents ideas and opportunities for funding mechanisms to scale investment toward climate results and gender equality.

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