[Gender] 29 Nov. "UNEP's Efforts for Promoting Gender Equity: Gender Plan of Action" by Lorena Aguilar of IUCN

[Paula Zuñiga]

Please join Lorena Aguilar Revelo, 
Senior Gender Advisor for IUCN-The World Conservation Union, 
for a brown bag talk on: 

UNEP’s Efforts for Promoting Gender Equity: Gender Plan of Action

Date: 
 29 November 2006, Wednesday 

Time: 
12:30 – 1:30pm 

Location
Conservation International
1919 M Street, NW (at the corner of 20th and M streets) 
Conference room 6011
Washington, DC 20036
phone: 202-912-1000

Lorena Aguilar Revelo will be presenting the major challenges and actions
that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has in relation to the
promotion of gender in the environmental sector.  With the new Executive
Director, UNEP has made an analysis of its role in the promotion of a more
equitable world.  Based on this analysis, for the first time UNEP has
elaborated a very innovative and challenging Gender Plan of Action for the
next five years.

Lorena Aguilar Revelo is the Senior Gender Advisor for IUCN-The World
Conservation Union.  Born in San José, Costa Rica, Lorena has a degree in
Anthropology with a major in Cultural Ecology. Her efforts towards a
sustainable and equitable human development include more than a decade of
practical experience in projects involving public policy development and
design and numerous years in the incorporation of social and gender issues
into the use and conservation of natural resources. 

Thanks to Lorena's tenacious work, women in different parts of the world
have achieved yet another goal in connection with gender equity. She has
provided technical assistance to international organizations, governments
and universities in areas such as water, environmental health, gender and
community participation.  Among her attributes stands out her unmatched
leadership capacity in the field of promoting equity in the environmental
sector. Through her projects and initiatives it has been possible to conform
a wide network of specialists that provide technical assistance to more than
150 projects.  Lorena has written 20 books and other publications on gender
and environment, environmental health and public policies involving equity.
She is the mother of three with two daughters and one son.

 

Please share this announcement with other colleagues interested in
attending.

 

Talk organized by the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG).

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