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NATURE FOR GENDER EQUALITY

Level: Introductory | Estimated completion time: 2 hours | Certificate upon completion

Skills: Connecting gender equality and nature, applying gender-responsive conservation approaches, supporting women’s leadership in environmental governance, identifying equity and GBV risks, integrating safeguards into nature-based solutions

Gender equality is essential to effective conservation and sustainable development. This journey shows how empowering women—through rights to land and resources, leadership in governance, safe and inclusive programming, and access to finance—strengthens environmental outcomes and community resilience. Using real-world examples and practical guidance, you’ll learn how to design and deliver gender-responsive nature solutions, including safeguards against GBV, that advance the SDGs.

Task 1: Why does gender equality matter for nature?

Task 2: Nature and gender equality

Task 3: Gender-responsive action on nature benefits for the SDGs

Task 4: Trends in gender and nature

Task 5: Key messages on gender and nature

Stop and check 1

Task 6: Blog: Cultivating resilience: Women’s leadership in biodiversity conservation

Task 7: Blog: In defence of nature, women at the forefront

Task 8: Blog: The sisterhood of the beehive

Stop and check 2

Task 9: Blog: Three things we’ve learned about managing gender-based violence in environment projects

Final test

Certificate of completion

REFERENCES

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Cultivating Resilience: Women’s Leadership in Biodiversity Conservation. Available here.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In Defence of Nature, Women at the forefront. Available here.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Nature for Gender Equality. Nature for Development Action Kits. Available here.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Three Things We’ve Learned about Managing Gender-based Violence in Environment Projects. Available here.

Additional Resources

Toolkit

Nature for Gender Equality Action Kit (UNDP)

A guide showcasing nature–gender links, entry points, case studies, and policy tools

Publication

Human Rights, the Environment, and Gender Equality (UN Women)

This policy paper emphasises interconnections between human rights, the environment, and gender.

Brief

Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (UNEP, WCMC, UN Women)

This brief stresses the integration of gender into biodiversity frameworks.

Publication

Achieving Gender Equality and a Healthy Environment Together (UNEP, WCMC)

This publication discusses women as transformative agents in biodiversity conservation.

Brief

Advancing Gender-responsive Synergies across the Rio Conventions (UN Women)

This brief explores gender equality at the intersection of climate, biodiversity, and land degradation treaties.

Report

Integrated Actions for Accelerated Impact: Putting Gender Equality and Social Inclusion at the Heart of NBSAPs and NDCs (UNDP)

This report offers guidance for embedding gender-responsive social inclusion in national biodiversity and climate plans.

Guide

Best Practices in Gender and Biodiversity (UNEP, CBD)

This guide showcases best practices and multiple benefits in gender equality and biodiversity.

Publication

Gender-based Violence and Environment Linkages (IUCN)

This global review on how gender-based violence and the environment are linked across sectors and regions.

Report

The Status of Women in Agri-food Systems (FAO)

This report uses extensive data and analyses to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s participation, benefits, and challenges they face globally.

Report

Advancing Women's Rights, Gender Equality and the Future of Biodiversity in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (Women4Biodiversity, WWF)

This review explores gender and environment linkages, women’s roles in biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and more in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework-based solutions.

Publication

Gender Equality for Greener and Bluer Futures: Why Women’s Leadership Matters for Realizing Environmental Goals (UNDP)

This guide provides seven entry points for mainstreaming gender into planning, monitoring, and reporting for revised or updated National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs).

Publication

A Manual for Gender-Responsive Land Degradation Neutrality Transformative Projects and Programmes (UN Women)

This report outlines efforts for achieving land degradation neutrality through transformative efforts to avoid, reduce, and reverse land degradation through gender-equitable means.

Publication

Women, Girls and Biodiversity Loss: An Evidence and Policy Review (DEFRA)

This review offers insight into the differential impacts of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation on women and girls around the world.

Research Paper

Towards a Gender Responsive Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (UN Women)

This research summarizes advances in gender-responsive implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Guide

Guidelines for Mainstreaming Gender into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan (CBD)

This guide highlights key steps in integrating gender into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs).

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