November 2019 – May 2020. Consultant to assist in facilitating consultations in Kiribati, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands for the Women’s Resilience to Disasters Programme. Client: UN Women
gender equality and women's economic empowerment
Measures that address the impacts of climate change, disasters and environmental degradation would be ineffective if they do not recognise the agency of people at risk and support them to acknowledge and apply their own knowledge and context specific solutions. The inclusion and empowerment women, youth, people with disabilities in development processes is vital to ensuring local solutions that address the needs of all.
We have undertaken the following projects in this area:
Gender and Agricultural Value Chains
In progress Review of existing literature on entry points for strengthening gender and social inclusion within agricultural value chains in the Pacific Client: SPC, Suva
Human mobility in the context of climate change
August- September, 2019 Review and finalisation of gender and human mobility research, and development of a toolkit module Client: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Women’s Resilience to Disaster and Climate Change
In progress Leading the consultations and programme design for a UN Women programme on Women’s Resilience to Disasters and Climate Change Client: UN Women, Suva
Project management training delivery
March 1, 2019 Period: March 2019 - June 2019 Capacity building training in project management and resource mobilisation for grantees of the Fiji Women’s Fund. Client: Fiji Women’s Fund, Suva