Sue Phillips, Chairperson of WOCAN’s Board of Directors and the Director of Gender Tech, and Gender Adviser to the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Markets, led a two-day information session, organized by the Department of Gender Women and Civil Society of the African Development Bank.
The objective of the session were
- To introduce participants to carbon markets as an instrument of climate finance, their use and relevance in the African context;
- To introduce participants to the relevance of gender equality and women’s empowerment to carbon markets in the African context.
- To explore the opportunities offered by rapidly growing carbon markets in Africa for delivery of the Bank’s gender equality, climate change and green growth policies.
- To familiarise participants with resources available to support integration of gender equality into African carbon markets
- To demonstrate, through case study examples, the opportunities for integrating the Bank’s gender equality objectives into carbon credit-eligible mitigation and adaptation investments and programmes
- To introduce participants to leading gender methodologies and tools used in carbon markets
- To familiarise participants with the strengths and weaknesses of leading carbon crediting programmes from a gender equality perspective
Jeannette presented the W+ Standard during the Tools and Best Practices session of this webinar. She highlighted how the application of the W+ Standard:
- Incentivizes actions for women’s empowerment projects and supply chains
- Measures, quantifies and monetizes women’s empowerment
- Channels funds directly to women’s groups