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What does gender-responsive social protection have to do with the climate crisis?

(Past event)

Event type: Webinar

Related research: Gender-responsive and age-sensitive social protection

events13 October 2021time16:00 - 17:00 CET

With the increased recognition of the important role social protection plays in securing household and gender-equitable security and response to shocks, the webinar will feature a panel of leading experts on gender, climate change and social protection. These experts will convene to investigate what and how current social protection policies and programmes have addressed climate change impacts, and how gender responsive and age sensitive they are or not. It will discuss:

  • the intersections between gender, social protection and climate change
  • the role social protection can and does play in addressing climate change impacts on women, children and vulnerable communities, and
  • the agenda ahead for building on opportunities to address the current and future climate crisis from the perspective of gender-equal and sustainable development.

    This event is jointly hosted by FCDO and UNICEF-Innocenti. It has been generously funded by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) as part of the Gender-Responsive Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP) research programme.

       

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      Speakers include:

        • Alicia Herbert OBE, Director of Education, Gender and Equality and Special Envoy for Gender Equality, FCDO
        • Jyotsna Puri, Associate Vice-President - Strategy and Knowledge Department (SKD), IFAD
        • Christiana George, Head of Gender Department, African Risk Capacity (ARC)
        • Mattias Lundberg, Partnerships Advisor and Manager of the Rapid Social Response—Adaptive and Dynamic Social Protection Programme, World Bank Group

          Experts

          Alicia Herbert
          Director - Education, Gender and Equality Directorate & Special Envoy for Gender
          Jyotsna Puri
          Associate Vice-President - Strategy and Knowledge Department, IFAD
          Christiana Adokiye George
          Head of Gender Department, African Risk Capacity
          Mattias Lundberg
          Partnerships Advisor and Manager of the Rapid Social Response, World Bank
          Dominic Richardson
          Chief, Social and Economic Policy
          Sarah Crowe
          Moderator

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