Mainstreaming Gender into Ecosystem-based Adaptation

When: Thursday 3 April at 8:00am (EDT) / 1:00pm (GMT) / 8:00pm (GMT+7)
Where: Online. Register here.

Launched in March 2021, the Global EbA Fund is a funding mechanism for catalytic, innovative, and inclusive projects that aim to create an enabling environment for the implementation of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) to enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities and ecosystems to the impacts of climate change.  

As part of that mandate of catalytic action, questions of how to address societal challenges such as climate change adaptation using ecosystems and nature raises further questions about how to effectively engage people as part of this process. Gender norms, roles and relations in particular have a significant impact on access to and agency over resources, information, knowledge and decisions. This results in unequal contributions to addressing the root causes of climate change and exposes people to different degrees of vulnerability and resilience to the exacerbating impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Hence, exploring these gender relations in the context of EbA is critical in order to understand: What is the role of gender and other identities in the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of ecosystems to help people adapt to climate change? How do we address the distribution of the costs and benefits of working with nature to address climate change? How can overlooking gender hinder EbA implementation?  

This webinar aims to achieve the following:   

• Demonstrate how integrating gender can highly benefit EbA work and end results;
• Explore ways and tools for organisations to integrate gender into their EbA implementation
• Strengthen gender integration into EbA at different stages of the project cycle from project conceptualisation to implementation, monitoring and evaluation;   
• Share good practices for working on integrating gender into EbA drawing from EbA Fund projects.

For more information, contact norah.ngeny@un.org