GEF Gender Partnership Meeting: Washington DC

Name: GEF Gender Partnership Meeting: Washington DC
Start: 2024-06-21T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-21T15:30:00-04:00

June 21 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm EDT

GEF Gender Partnership at the sidelines of the June 2024 GEF Council and Agencies’ Retreat June 21 (Friday), 09:00 – 15:30 (EST, DC time)

Gustavo Fonseca Room, GEFSEC Office, 1899 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington DC

Objectives

To discuss emerging issues and priority themes, including: i) broader social inclusion policies and practices: non-binary gender considerations; disability inclusion; gender-based violence; ii) going beyond the “beneficiary” concept to a more robust and substantive indicators for measuring advances on gender equality and better reflect the impact of the efforts on gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming.
To exchange views on strengthening the monitoring, reporting, and communication capacities of the members of the GGP.
To explore the establishment of a GGP Community of Practice in which Integrated Program teams and other members of the GGP can exchange knowledge, good practices and lessons learned on mainstreaming gender into environmental programming.

GEF Gender Partnership Meeting: Washington DC

Program Time	Session	Details	Panelist
09:00-09:30	Introductions and welcome
09:30-10:30	Session 1: Gender data, indicators, measuring impacts	Learning and exchange on gender data, indicators, and measuring impacts of gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming in environmental projects and program	Jamie Wen – IUCN Sara Duarte – UN Women Ciara Daniels – UNDP Jeannette Gurung, WOCAN/W+Standard.
10:30-11:30	Session 1.1: Discussion session	How to develop and use portfolio level indicators that go beyond measuring the number of beneficiaries.	Co-facilitated between CI and IUCN
11:30-12:00	Session 2: Communicating our impacts	Storytelling of successful case studies of gender mainstreaming in environmental programming	Jamie Wen and Jackie Siles– IUCN Other GGP members´experiences
12:00-13:00	Luncheon Session: Exchange on the proposal to have a GGP Community of Practice	Sharing lessons learned and best practices from IP’s gender leads.	IP Leaders
13:00-14:00	Session 3: Emerging issues and priority themes:	Share strategies, policies and experiences on how to better	Youth Disabilities