This training manual has been produced in December 2019 by the Rwanda Environment and Management Authority through the Poverty-Environment Action in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
This manual builds on several existing policies, reports and manuals on gender equality and gender mainstreaming in environment and climate change. A selective consolidation was adjusted to the needs of the Rwanda Environment and Management Authority. It has been particularly inspired by the following organizations and their tools for gender equality or for environment mainstreaming guidelines:
Rwanda Environment and Management Authority, Rwanda Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), UNEP Global Gender and Environment Outlook (2016), ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNDP, UNEP, and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) as part of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA).
About the Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals
Poverty Environment Action for the Sustainable Development Goals is a joint global project which provides an avenue for the poverty environment mainstreaming process. It emanates from the sustained partnership between UNDP and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as strategic actors within the UN system to advance the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. It was a four-year project (2018-2022) jointly implemented by UNDP and UNEP with Global Policy Centre on Resilient Ecosystems and Desertification (GC-RED) as the Managing Agent with a US $20 million budget through a pooled fund, financed by the European Union (EU), Austrian Development Agency (ADA), Norway and Sweden through UNEP, as well as core resources from the UN agencies.
Poverty-Environment Action aims at mainstreaming environmental sustainability and climate objectives for poverty eradication into development planning, budgeting and monitoring systems into public and private finance and investment.
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