International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

When official statistics are complemented with community-driven data, we get fairer, more effective solutions! 📊 Significant progress has been made in closing the data gap at the gender-environment-climate nexus, but power imbalances still remain. #GenderData generated by non-state actors, like #IndigenousPeoples and local communities, must be recognised and integrated into decision-making at all levels 👏 We need a shift that upholds the right of local communities and traditionally marginalised groups to collect, own and control data that is created with or about themselves. Our upcoming online event at #CSW69 will bring together state and non-state actors to showcase best practices for addressing the data gap. Join us to hear from: ➡️ Sadia Satti from Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) ➡️ Tahnee Prior, Ph.D. from Women of the Arctic ➡️ Amelia Arreguín Prado from CBD Women's Caucus ➡️ Khiddir Iddris from Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) ➡️ Ketty Marcelo from Organización Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas Andinas y Amazónicas del Perú #ONAMIAP ➡️ Karen Wong-Perez from International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) & more! Register now! ⏰ 11 March, 12.30 (GMT), Zoom 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dwJDHJdE UN Climate Change UN Women UN Women UK Women's Environment & Development Organization International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) Katie Tobin Rosalind Helfand, MPhil Claudia Rubio Giraldo Gabriela Balvedi Pimentel Joanne Crawford AM Natalie Cleveland Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell Amanda Austin Alison Holder Aarushi Khanna

Global development assistance is facing significant constraints. It is more critical than ever to ensure #aid reaches those who need it most. Targeted and efficient investments in locally driven solutions address urgent needs and build long-term resilience and economic stability. 🌆 Prioritising #housing within development assistance is a practical and effective step toward sustainable development. Safe and adequate homes are foundational to improving health, education and livelihoods. Join us as part of the Habitat for Humanity International Home Equals campaign to ask world leaders to take bold action to improve the lives of the more than 1 billion people living in informal settlements without safe and stable homes. Sign the petition. ➡ https://lnkd.in/d4ZP2E9D #urban #InformalSettlements #G7

Out of sight, out of mind? Addressing the invisibility of aquatic foods in food systems debates 🎣 IIED researcher Giulia Nicolini, author of the 2024 paper ‘What about seafood?’, was invited to write an essay on aquatic foods for TABLE. In the essay she argues that the exclusion of #seafood and aquatic ecosystems is nothing new, and follows a long history of under-appreciation and alienation. Jack Thompson, editor of TABLE's FODDER newsletter commented, "it's time to address the blue whale in the room... ignoring food from the #ocean not only ignores the opportunities for win-wins, but also leads to unintended consequences." 🐋 Read the essay now at https://lnkd.in/eagbsJBv, and subscribe to FODDER in comments. ⬇ #FoodSystems #SDG2 #SDG14

Right now in NYC, #CSW69 representatives are gathering to discuss advancing the fight for #GenderJustice. What about including gender in climate and environmental policies? Despite crises disproportionately affecting women, girls and gender-diverse people, gender remains overlooked in policy making ⚖️ 📢 New resource now live! The Gender Environment Hub brings together different strands of work from IIED and partners in advocating for the use of accessible, intersectional #GenderData in decision-making spaces. This refers to data that captures information on the different lived experiences of women, men and gender-diverse people. It can be both quantitative and qualitative; and collection methods account for stereotypes, social norms and other factors that may introduce gender biases. Effective action at local and national levels is often limited by fragmented data and the exclusion of #IndigenousPeoples, women’s organisations and grassroots social movements ❌ IIED is working to bridge data gaps, elevate the contributions of non-state actors, and advocate for data-driven gender-climate-environment policy and action! Read more 👉 link in comments Karen Wong-Perez Cinzia Cimmino Marion Pobo Matt Wright JAMES PERSAD Marcelle Mardon Roxana Vaduva Rosalind Helfand, MPhil Joanna Lindner-Pradela Bobina Zulfa Bernadette Muyomi CBD Women's Caucus UN Women Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) Women's Environment & Development Organization

🚨 STARTING NOW! Join us for a discussion on #GenderData at this #CSW69 parallel event👇 https://lnkd.in/dwJDHJdE

Global degradation of ecosystems is undermining climate resilience, threatening biodiversity, putting human wellbeing at risk and hindering sustainable development. 🌍 2021-2030 marks the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and worldwide countries have pledged to restore up to 1 billion hectares of land by 2030. Locally led restoration is key to achieving this ambition – driving ecological recovery while also strengthening climate #resilience to ensure both people and #nature can thrive. Reversing Environmental Degradation in Africa and Asia (REDAA) is hosting two regional webinars for South and Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa on 26 March – discussing how power and politics are shaped to support, scale and sustain locally led action for nature restoration. Find out more about both regional webinars and register to attend now. ➡ https://lnkd.in/exsH6K39 #LocallyLed #biodiversity #ClimateChange #GenerationRestoration

In this edition of IIED news find out about our participation at #CSW69, and read insights about #gender equality at climate change negotiations and challenges at the recent #COP16 meetings, a new podcast and lots more. #newsletter #blogs #podcast

Today is International Women's Day and we're reminded that the world is failing women and girls. We need swift action to deliver a future of rights, equality, and empowerment #ForAllWomenAndGirls ✊ #IWD2025 In the mining sector, inequalities and harmful gender practices are increasing the risk of gender-based violence 🚨 Women in communities around mining locations experience greater negative social, environmental and economic impacts from mining, increasing their vulnerability. This then heightens the probability of gender-based violence. Investors and end-users can drive change by making clear the legal, financial, reputational, operational and community risks of gender-based violence. Better data is also vital to incite action 📊 Read more in this new briefing 👇 https://lnkd.in/dRz6_uRy UN Women UN Women UK Abbi Buxton Lorenzo Cotula Zenzi Awases Stacy Hope, Ph.D Khosi Sibisi Grace Akinyi Estelle Levin-Nally Fabiana Di Lorenzo, Ph.D, CDI.D Women In Mining Kenya

Last week, the United Nations biodiversity conference (#COP16) reconvened in Rome to resume global negotiations on filling the biodiversity funding gap and conserving nature worldwide. 🏞 Regrettably, the negotiations continue to reflect the #biodiversity governance at large: a context in which unequal power dynamics exist between global North and global South governments, and where non-state actors – particularly IPs and LCs, #women and youth – are excluded from biodiversity decision-making. With preparations already underway for #COP17 in Armenia late next year, it’s essential that as a global community, we ensure that the GBF – together with its monitoring, evaluation and resulting actions – is inclusive, equitable and participatory. IIED’s Anna Ducros and Karen Wong-Perez were among the delegates at COP16 2.0. In a new insight, they outline key decisions, compromises and challenges that emerged from the talks, and discuss the way forward for biodiversity action. ➡ https://lnkd.in/ek9DmpUp #WomensDay #IWD2025 #ForAllWomenAndGirls

This year the theme for International Women’s Day is “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” And a new briefing discusses some of the challenges to women's equality and rights in the context of the mining sector. With the global boom in critical mineral and metal mining, there is an urgent need to increase investment in tackling the sector’s complex social and human rights impacts — including the risk of gender-based violence (GBV). The briefing shows: ➡ The context and realities of the mining sector can exacerbate inequalities and harmful gender practices that underpin GBV. ➡ GBV poses moral, legal, financial, reputational and operational risks for mining activities and supply chains. ➡ Mining companies need to better understand GBV and the structural inequalities and harmful gender norms that perpetuate it. ➡ Mining companies and governments should collaborate with partners to adopt programmes and policies to tackle and prevent GBV within workplaces and communities, designing these for local contexts. Download the new briefing at the link in comments. #ForAllWomenAndGirls #mining #CriticalMinerals #HumanRights #GBV