10 solutions for a feminist climate-resilient recovery by WOCAN

For this last interview of our podcast series, I am delighted to receive Evelyne Batamuliza to talk about women’s access to climate finance. We discuss the fact that gender equality is now well embedded in international climate frameworks and funds, but there is still very limited funding reaching women and women’s organizations. She calls for deliberate efforts to fill this gap, making sure that women are at the decision-making table when it comes to climate actions and climate finance at global and national level, and translating commitments into concrete mechanisms and actions that put more resources into the hands of women at the local level.

Today we speak with Eve Crowley, FAO Deputy Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean and FAO Representative in Chile, about the role of women in food systems, and how to design sustainable and inclusive food systems. She shares the example of the Food System Council of Lima (Consejo del Sistema Alimentario de Lima, CONSIAL), which takes an innovative holistic and gender responsive approach.

Today we speak with Amanda Ellis about feminist leadership and what it means in the context of COVID-19 and commitments for a sustainable development. She talks about the correlation between gender balance in boards and governance bodies, and sustainability, and shares her insights on how to increase women’s participation in leadership and decision making. 

Today we speak with Lorena Aguilar about nature-based solutions, and the important role that women play in the effective implementation of those solutions. 

In this episode, we speak with Neera Van der Geest, CEO of the FairClimateFund, a social venture that invests and trades in CO2 reduction certificates that benefit people, mostly women and children, that are most vulnerable to climate change to give them a more sustainable livelihood. Neera shares her perspective on the importance of investing for social and environmental impacts and calls for more transparency in the way impact is measured and how benefits are shared with those that enable this impact to happen. 

In this episode, Colletah Chitsike shares her perspective on the capacities than are needed to cope with change and build resilience. She highlights the importance of participatory approaches such as Women Leadership Circles and mentoring and calls for more resources to be allocated for education and capacity development.

Joining us today on this podcast is Dibya Devi Gurung, a Core Associate of WOCAN, to talk about the role of women's organizations in building social and climate resilience of communities. She shares her perspective from Nepal and calls for more recognition of the value and contributions of women to climate resilience and the urgent need to direct more resources to their organizations.

In this episode, we talk with Barun Gurung about the institutional transformation and cultural change that is needed for organizations to be more inclusive, nimble, and better equipped to better adapt and respond to crisis.  

In this episode, we talk with Cathy Lee about the importance of measuring impacts to ensure that funds will indeed support sustainable, climate-smart and inclusive initiatives, and contribute to 'building back better'. She shares her perspective on the need for standards to go beyond 'do no harm' to women and gives the example of the W+ Standard, which supports transparency in evaluating claims of women’s empowerment and ensures that benefits that are claimed to be happening or promised in future, do in fact happen.

In 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