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Second NatureIs the Patriarchy Fueling Climate Change?The climate crisis has a way of making hard things even harder — and that includes gender disparities. From their professional lives to their personal lives, climate change has left many women vastly under-resourced and at risk, all while taking on the heavy toll of caring for their families and communities through climate mitigation and resilience. In this episode, we hear how the climate gender gap is affecting our community, talk to WOCAN founder Jeannette Gurung about how women continue to work through vast climate inequities around the world, and we hear from Commons' founder and CEO Sanchali Se...
2025-04-3034 min
GLF LiveHow sustainable finance can work for womenRural women have enormous potential to produce and scale up solutions to the climate crisis, food insecurity and poverty, but they often still lack the resources and recognition they need to succeed.That’s why Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) created the world’s first framework measuring and monetizing women’s empowerment – the W+ standard. Developed with women in rural Kenya and Nepal, the framework provides metrics and procedures to quantify, verify and monetize women’s empowerment across six areas: time, health, education and knowledge, food security, income and assets, and leadership...
2023-03-0828 min
#TheEvaluator'The Evaluator' Episode 12: Addressing gender and climate change togetherThis episode of The Evaluator features Dr. Jeannette Gurung, Founder & Executive Director of Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN).
Listen to her speak about why gender and climate change should be addressed in unison and learn about the methodology WOCAN has proposed for putting a monetary value on the women’s unpaid care for the environment.
This episode was created by the IEU's Iben Holstener Hjorth and Yeonji Kim. You can subscribe to 'The Evaluator' on major podcast platforms including Anchor, Radio Public, Breaker, Spotify, and Google.
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2021-05-1113 min
10 Solutions for a Feminist Climate-Resilient RecoveryCompensation for women's social and environmental contributionsIn this episode, we talk with Dr. Jeannette Gurung about how compensating women’s social and environmental contributions is a solution for a more resilient post COVID-19 recovery. She presents the W+ Standard, the first women-specific standard that quantifies, values and monetizes the results of projects on women’s lives - and brings to light women's contributions to climate related projects. Those results are translated in W+ units available for sale. A share of the value of the W+ units goes to women engaged in the projects. For more information, visit www.wplus.org
2020-06-0322 min