Bien que les changements dans l’environnement touchent tout le monde, ils affectent les hommes et les femmes différemment. Les femmes et les filles sont plus susceptibles d’être touchés par la dégradation de l’environnement en grande partie compte tenu des responsabilités traditionnelles comme…
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While changes in the environment affect everyone, they affect men and women differently. Women and girls are more likely to be affected by environmental degradation largely because of their traditional responsibilities such as food producers, collecting water and firewood. Identify and address…
United Nations officers of Poverty-Environment Initiative joined with UN advocates and members of the research community to strategize on the sustainability of poverty-environment mainstreaming at the Initiative’s 2015 Global Retreat, held from 30 March to 1 April,…
The Mauritanian Ministry of Finance, with support from the Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) Mauritania…
Bringing together country delegations from Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia, UN agencies, partner organizations, bilateral donors and civil society, Poverty-Environment Initiative Asia Pacific hosted a Showcase Event on 6 November 2014 at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Bangkok. The event was…
Twenty members of Malawi’s Parliament attended a training of the Parliamentary Committee on Environment and Climate Change Management, which had been organized by the Leadership for Environment and Development–South Eastern Africa (LEAD-SEA) in Lilongwe on 25-26…
Agriculture continues to be an important engine of growth in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. It employs a substantive proportion of the population, and is a critical source of food security and nutrition. Unfortunately, gender inequalities common to the region significantly dampen the…
An inaugural national symposium on ‘Achieving Inclusive Sustainable Economic Growth: From Rhetoric to Practice’, organized by the Economics Association of Malawi (ECAMA), was held in Lilongwe from 8 to 10 October 2014. Representatives of the Government of Malawi,…
Poverty-Environment Facility staff participated both as trainers and trainees in a course on the Human Rights Based Approach and its practical implementation in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) programming held from 13 to 14 October 2014 at the United…
With an eye to the sustainability of Poverty-Environment mainstreaming and the outcomes of the Poverty-Environment Initiative beyond 2017, the Initiative’s Donor Steering Group debated ways to strengthen Poverty-Environment’s impact globally at its meeting held on 25…