On 21 June 2023 (13:00-14:30 CEST), the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) hosted a webinar to provide participants with an overall understanding of gender in chemicals management, and the importance of strategies for incorporating the gender dimension into National Implementation Plans (NIPs) under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
By focusing on gender mainstreaming in NIPs, it aimed to share information on more inclusive and effective actions to address the disproportionate social, economic, health, and environmental burdens faced by vulnerable social groups in the process of POPs management. The webinar offered insights, recommended actions, and tools for policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders involved in NIP development, update, and implementation.
Objectives
- To increase participants’ overall understanding of gender mainstream in chemical management
- To increase participants’ understanding of the importance of effective strategies to incorporate gender dimension in National Implementation Plans
- Share examples of more inclusive and effective actions and policies to address the disproportionate burdens faced by vulnerable groups
- Provide assessment insights, and tools and introduce the guidance to incorporate gender dimension in National Implementation Plans
Target audience
- Stockholm Convention Official Contact Points and National Focal Points, particularly from project countries
- National officials and experts involved in the process of reviewing and updating the NIPs
- Practitioners working on gender issues
- Members of NIP National Coordinating Mechanism/Committees and Project Coordination Units/Thematic Task Groups
- Representatives of regional centers and relevant stakeholders
Agenda (CEST)
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13:00 |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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Moderator: Ms. Anastasiya Buchok - Senior Project Assistant, Component 4, Global NIP Update, GGKP |
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13:05 |
1. Overview of Gender in Chemicals Management Speaker Ms. Melanie Ashton – Project Coordinator of Component 4, Global NIP Update, GGKP |
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13:20 |
2. Gender Mainstreaming Strategies and Approaches for NIPs
Speaker Mr. Fouad Bergigui – Gender Expert, International Consultant |
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13:35 |
3. Gender Dimension through the Lens of the Stockholm Convention
Speaker Ms. Susan Wingfield – Program Management Officer, UN Environmental Program |
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13:55 |
Q&A |
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14:00 |
4. Gender sensitive POPs inventories Speaker Ms. Anastasiya Buchok – Senior Project Assistant, Component 4, Global NIP Update, GGKP |
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14:15 |
5. Implementing projects with a gender focus Speaker Ms. Natalia Maciel – Technical project assistant, Component 3, Global NIP Update, BCCC – SCRC Uruguay |
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14:35 |
6. Gender in chemicals. Ethiopian context Speaker Mr. Girma Gemechu – Director General, Director General, Environmental Compliance Monitoring and Control Directorate, Environment Protection Agency, Ethiopia |
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14:45 |
Closing Remarks |
Please feel free to watch the record of the webinar:
in French: https://youtu.be/RXx5PvCVs1Q
in Spanish: https://youtu.be/taAQySFvguk
in Russian: https://youtu.be/B3W2BANw2TQ
This event was organized within the framework of Component 4 of GEF-funded and UNEP-led project (ID 10785) "Global Development, Review and Update of National Implementation Plans (NIPs) under the Stockholm Convention (SC) on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)"