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Capacity-building Hub: Co-Creating Gender-Responsive Climate Solutions Across the Rio Conventions
20 Nov. 2025
12:15h - 13:15h
BRT/UTC-3
Belém, Brazil
Brazil
Special event room - Tapajos, Area C
Area C
English
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Capacity-building Hub: Co-Creating Gender-Responsive Climate Solutions Across the Rio Conventions
20 Nov. 2025
12:15h - 13:15h
BRT/UTC-3
Belém, Brazil
Brazil
Special event room - Tapajos, Area C
Area C
English

Organizers 

WECF

CTCN 

GFC

 

Background

Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) is a non-profit network that encourages feminist action that transforms systems of power, advances climate justice, and promotes gender equality. Our work centers on three pillars: Capacity building and strengthening, policy influencing, and campaigns and awareness-raising. 

Climate and environmental governance under the Rio Conventions often lacks integration and gender responsiveness. This session addresses these gaps by promoting holistic, inclusive solutions that leverage local knowledge and feminist action.

This session will explore how gender-responsive and community-based approaches can strengthen the implementation of the Rio Conventions. It aims to foster collaboration among policymakers, grassroots organizations, and researchers, showcasing feminist climate solutions from the Global South.

Objectives

  • Enhance understanding of linkages between gender justice and the Rio Conventions.

  • Build capacity for designing gender-responsive and inclusive climate and environmental policies.

  • Promote cross-sectoral collaboration and knowledge exchange.

  • Showcase gender-responsive practical climate solutions and lived experiences from the Global South

 

Agenda 

 

  • Structure 

    Time

    Segment 

    Speaker & Affiliation

    12:15 - 12:18 

    Welcome and opening remarks

    Rebecca Heulvemans, WECF

    12:18 - 12:20 

     

    Video: 'Women's Wisdom: Real Solutions for our Earth'

    GFC

    12:20 - 12:30 

     

    Storytelling: Case studies from the Global South (One for each Rio Convention)

    Isabel Prestes da Fonseca, Zag Institute

    Ayesha Amin, Baithak Foundation

    12:30 - 13:00

     

    Role-play simulation: Participants co-design gender-responsive policy frameworks

    Valentina Figuera, GFC

    Valeria Peláez, WECF

    CTCN

    13:00 - 13:10

    Group discussion: Share insights and recommendations

    One representative per group

    13:10 - 13:15 

    Closing: Key takeaways and next steps.

    Elisa Morena, Special Rapporteur for Human Rights