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Measuring and Certifying Women’s Empowerment through the W+ Standard
Measuring and Certifying Women’s Empowerment through the W+ Standard
By Jeannette Gurung
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Vote for our SOCAP Session by June 29 on Measuring and Monetizing Women's Empowerment
Vote for our SOCAP Session by June 29 on Measuring and Monetizing Women's Empowerment
By Jeannette Gurung
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Invitation: Women's Empowerment Co-Benefits with Carbon Standards, 20 Sept in NY
Invitation: Women's Empowerment Co-Benefits with Carbon Standards, 20 Sept in NY
By Jeannette Gurung
Contributions
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Your stakeholders are questioning your social impact outcomes. How can you convince them of your credibility?
Consider using a certification mechanism, that measures outcomes based on evidence, not box checking and self-reporting, that uses 3rd party independent verification . This is really necessary in the case of gender outcomes, which are currently often not measured with any rigor. This 'pink washing' could have negative repercussions for funders that take the easy route to claiming results that don't actually exist. Check out the W+ Standard to see the 10 year old certification system created by WOCAN - a global body focused on women's empowerment.
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Excited to attend and speak at the UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance Forum on gender and climate finance in Arusha, Tanzania , Session…
Excited to attend and speak at the UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance Forum on gender and climate finance in Arusha, Tanzania , Session…
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Watching the Gen-Z Revolution in Bangladesh has been nothing short of epic—PM Hasina’s resignation, followed by the Chief Justice and Central Bank…
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Six years ago today this was my view. I was ready for a change after being at CGAP for nearly 10 years. It's hard to have perspective when you are…
Six years ago today this was my view. I was ready for a change after being at CGAP for nearly 10 years. It's hard to have perspective when you are…
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Experience
Education
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University of East Anglia
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Activities and Societies: PhD DThesis: “A Narrative of Resistance: Enacting Gender in an International Development Organization”
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Publications
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Changing business as usual in global climate and development action: Making space for social justice in carbon markets
World Development Perspectives
Carbon markets are being promoted both by business and governments as a predominant way to address climate change. Critical scholarship has brought attention to their disappointing climate performance, for the social inequalities they engender and for distracting from the imperative of changing extractivist modes of capitalist production and consumption. Given that private interests are central in climate action and that carbon markets are dominant, we argue that it is important to engage with…
Carbon markets are being promoted both by business and governments as a predominant way to address climate change. Critical scholarship has brought attention to their disappointing climate performance, for the social inequalities they engender and for distracting from the imperative of changing extractivist modes of capitalist production and consumption. Given that private interests are central in climate action and that carbon markets are dominant, we argue that it is important to engage with them, while maintaining our own critical position. The central aim in this article is to grapple with global environmental governance, to explore practical ways in which we may go about ensuring justice and sustainability in development and climate action, beyond theoretical denunciations of the system and structures. Drawing on scholarship that questions the hegemonic power of capitalism, we adopt a practical stance to reflect on how a gendered methodology, the W+ standard, modelled on methods used to measure carbon emissions reductions, may be used in development and in combination with carbon standards in a way that emissions-reducing projects also lead to gender and social justice. The W+ Standard is a methodology that ensures that gendered inequalities, including women’s often invisible care work, are accounted for, by quantifying and certifying benefits for women involved in community development and climate projects. Based on an activist academic and practitioner conversation, we explore if engaging in the politics of the present (with private interests and carbon markets) may make space for the political agency of women and men and diverse economic and social contexts in such projects and enable a shift in business in usual. We argue that there is a need to engage in new experimental economic relations in local contexts that have the potential to change unequal development and environmental relationships, in encounters between global development and local lives.
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Gender Mainstreaming in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction
UNWOMEN
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Accelerating Investments in Women through Certification
Cornerstone Journal of Sustainable Finance & Banking
The article explains what is W+, discusses the importance of investing in women’s organizations and groups and why putting money in the hands of women is critical for development. The article also explains how the W+ works and emphasizes that Contributors can benefit from the W+ through three primary ways:
Purchasing W+ units provides corporations, individuals and investors with quantified results of women benefitted that can count towards internal targets for women’s…The article explains what is W+, discusses the importance of investing in women’s organizations and groups and why putting money in the hands of women is critical for development. The article also explains how the W+ works and emphasizes that Contributors can benefit from the W+ through three primary ways:
Purchasing W+ units provides corporations, individuals and investors with quantified results of women benefitted that can count towards internal targets for women’s empowerment.
Corporations and investors can seek higher profits from W+ labeled products and services
Financial institutions can provide loans to organizations producing W+ units for the market.
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Getting REDD Right for Women: An analysis of the barriers and opportunities for women’s participation in the REDD+ sector in Asia
USAID
Findings of this research that pointed out the absence of attention to gender issues by forest and REDD planners across South and South East Asia sparked a wave of interest and support from donors and boosted the efforts of NGOs working in this arena.
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Are Women the Key to Solving Climate Change?
Fast Company
Prepared during the COP21 Climate Change conference in Paris, this article is a result of interviews with Jeannette Gurung and other women leaders in climate change.
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Two Innovations to Raise the Bar for Gender in Climate Financing
Outreach- A multi-stakeholder publication on climate change and sustainable development on Dec 8, Gender Day at COP21
Women's agency and leadership play a critical and often unrecognized role in climate responses. This is reflected in their knowledge and practices in sustainable natural resources management, in responding to climate-related crises, and their actions as entrepreneurs advancing green technologies and businesses. Gender inequalities that limit women's access to financial resources, land, education, health and other opportunities also limit their capacity to mitigate climate change and to adapt to…
Women's agency and leadership play a critical and often unrecognized role in climate responses. This is reflected in their knowledge and practices in sustainable natural resources management, in responding to climate-related crises, and their actions as entrepreneurs advancing green technologies and businesses. Gender inequalities that limit women's access to financial resources, land, education, health and other opportunities also limit their capacity to mitigate climate change and to adapt to its impacts. Women's unequal participation in decision-making processes and labor markets further compound these inequalities and prevent them from fully contributing to climate-related planning, policy making, and implementation.
Projects
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Women's Leadership Circles
WLCAN is a national level platform to develop women’s leadership, promote regular dialogue between women policy makers/professionals and women farmers/leaders/ entrepreneurs, and to create new spaces for women farmer’s voices to be heard at policy levels. There are regular WLCAN meetings organized in Nepal, South Africa and Kenya, and WOCAN members of Maldives are also planning to organize WLCAN meetings. For more information please check the prezi below and/or download the Guidelines of WLCAN.
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W+ Standard and Program
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To accelerate women’s empowerment, WOCAN has created the W+™: the world’s first standard to measure positive impacts to women’s social and economic empowerment from projects such as climate change mitigation and international development programs. When incorporated into project design and execution, the W+™ provides measurable, verifiable benefits to women, resulting in marketable W+ units for sale to corporate, institutional or individual buyers interested in robust measurement of the CSR and…
To accelerate women’s empowerment, WOCAN has created the W+™: the world’s first standard to measure positive impacts to women’s social and economic empowerment from projects such as climate change mitigation and international development programs. When incorporated into project design and execution, the W+™ provides measurable, verifiable benefits to women, resulting in marketable W+ units for sale to corporate, institutional or individual buyers interested in robust measurement of the CSR and development investments. Rigorous methods and processes ensure buyers that W+ certified units will be protected from false or inflated claims, and can confidently measure the beneficial impacts of their investments. When the livelihoods of women improve, broader economic, social, and environmental improvements follow.
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Honors & Awards
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Coalition for Women's Economic Empowerment and Equality member
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
CWEEE primarily engages with the U.S. Government on issues affecting women’s economic empowerment and equality globally, is guided by the insights and counsel of leading experts. CWEEE aims to ensure that our foreign policy goals are in alignment with the principles and priorities of domestic movements for economic justice.
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Momentum for Change Lighthouse Activity, Women for Results 2016
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The ‘W+ Standard’ project of WOCAN was awarded under the Momentum for Change Women for Results focus area for its work to measure women’s empowerment in six domains: time, income/assets, health, leadership, education/knowledge and food security. The measurement of progress results in women-benefit units (W+ units) that buyers can purchase. The sale of units generates revenues that are shared with women beneficiaries and their groups, putting money into the hands of women.
The W+…The ‘W+ Standard’ project of WOCAN was awarded under the Momentum for Change Women for Results focus area for its work to measure women’s empowerment in six domains: time, income/assets, health, leadership, education/knowledge and food security. The measurement of progress results in women-benefit units (W+ units) that buyers can purchase. The sale of units generates revenues that are shared with women beneficiaries and their groups, putting money into the hands of women.
The W+ Standard Pilot Project measured the time saved for 7,200 rural Nepalese women who replaced their wood-generated stoves with biogas stoves, relieving them of the need to collect fuel wood from the forest and saving 2.26 hours per day. By eliminating this time-consuming, labor-intensive task, women gained time for leisure and self-improvement, and to engage in income generation and community activities.
This shift to biogas not only transformed women’s lives but reduced the pressure on forests. To date, the W+ has also been applied to similar biogas projects in Indonesia cook-stove projects in Lao PDR and Honduras, a livelihoods and agroforestry project in Kenya, and a water and sanitation project in Cambodia.
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Nepali
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