National level workshop on Gender and Environment Statistics
Date: 2018-04-23 - 2018-04-24
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Indicators: 1.4.2, 5.a.1, 5.a.2, 11.2.1
Partners: IUCN
Topic: Gender and Environment
Overview
UN Environment and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) are implementing a project on gender and environment statistics.
Picking up on a key finding of UN Environment’s 2016 Global Gender and Environment Outlook (GGEO), this project examines data and information gaps at the gender-environment nexus and aims to propose next steps to enhance countries and other stakeholders ability to measure critical areas, including toward fulfilment of the interlinked Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Three workshops were held in in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Kenya and Mexico, across four priority areas (priority 1: Right to land, natural resources and biodiversity; priority 2: Access to food, energy, water and sanitation; priority 3: Climate change, Sustainable Consumption and Production, and health and well-being; and priority 4: Women’s participation in environmental decision making).
The Country mission to Mexico consisted of a two-day knowledge sharing workshop with key stakeholders from ministries, statistical offices, international organizations, civil society organizations and academia and in-depth interviews with national key informants.
The objectives of the two-day workshop were to foster the discussion on gender and environment statistics at national level in Mexico and share knowledge among participants on cross-sectoral issues.
This workshop focused on building an understanding of participants on the gender-environment data linkages, identify enabling conditions and opportunities for enhanced data collection and application, and consider recommendations for capacity building or other necessary next steps.
Additionally, participants were invited to discuss and identify priorities in the initial list of indicators proposed as part of the project.
The Mexico case study to be included in the full project research report is expected to draw on lessons learned from background research and key informant.
