Theme 7: Adding Value by Exploiting Cross Cutting and Spill-over Benefits of Gendered Innovations
This session will focus on improving the quality of impact of SDG interventions to achieve equal change benefiting in the circumstances women and men through multi-stakeholder actions involving researchers, policy makers and gender experts.
Moderator: Introducing Theme 7: 7-0 Oakla Cho, Emeritus Professor, Sogang University
- 7-1 Dominique Charron, Vice-President, Programs and Partnerships, International Development Research Centre, Canada
Promoting Gender Transformative Approaches to Research and Capacity Building for the SDGs - 7-2 Muneeza Mehmood Alam, World Bank, USA
Sustainable Mobility for All from a gender perspective - 7-3 Jürg Luterbacher, Director Science and Innovation at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Switzerland.
Gender dimensions of weather and climate services - 7-4 Rabia Ferroukhi, Director Knowledge, Policy, Finance, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), UAE, and Christine Lins, Executive Director, Global Women’s Network for Energy Transition (GWNET), Austria
Women in and for sustainable energy - 7-5 Marco Lambertini, Director General, WWF International, Switzerland, and Alice Ruhweza, Regional Director for Africa, WWF International, Switzerland
Nature Conservation through the Gender Lens - 7-6 Nayoung Kim, professor, School of Medicine, Seoul National University, Rep. of Korea
Developing gender-sensitive alcohol policy: Harmonizing scientific evidences and societal perception of alcohol in Korea
What you will learn
Modules in Theme 7: Adding Value by Exploiting Cross Cutting and Spill-over Benefits of Gendered Innovations
Nature Conservation through the Gender Lens
Marco Lambertini and Alice Ruhweza explain how WWF perceives and address gender issues in their mission and work.
Developing gender-sensitive alcohol policy: Harmonizing scientific evidences and societal perception of alcohol in Korea
Prof Kim explains results from research on the effects of alcohol on women and what this means for them, policy and society. In general the alcoholism problem is more sever for women, e.g.
Women in and for sustainable energy
Rabia Ferroukhi and Christine Lins, whose organisations are working closely together to advance women into energy sector, report on the key gender issues in increasing employment of women in energy
Gender dimensions of weather and climate services
Prof Luterbacher explains the efforts of the WMO to advance understanding of gender dimensions in weather and climate services.
Sustainable Mobility for All from a gender perspective
Muneeza Mehmood Alam explains the work of the World Bank to advance Sustainable Mobility for All and specifically the gender aspects of transportation.