Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP) and the United
Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN/ISDR)
are pleased to invite you to the Third Global Congress of Women in
Politics and Governance which will be held on October 19-22, 2008 at
the Dusit Hotel, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The theme of
the congress is “Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction.”
Women and environment experts have raised concern over the absence of
women in the discourse and debate on climate change and disaster risk
reduction, both of which are global mainstream issues that are
currently impacting the entire world. The involvement of women in
areas of environmental management and governance should not be
perceived as an afterthought. Women's roles are of considerable
importance in the promotion of environmental ethics.
The current imperative is for women to understand the phenomenon of
climate change and disaster risk reduction and their impacts and
implications at the individual, household, community and national
levels. Studies show that women have a definite information deficit on
climate politics, climate protection, and preparedness through
disaster risk reduction. Only with this information can women take
their proper, significant and strategic role in the issues of climate
change and disaster risk reduction.
Invited to this congress are parliamentarians, decision - makers in
national governments, environment organizations, youth leaders and
media practitioners, funding/ donor agencies/ organizations (Female
and male participants are welcome.)
The Congress will have the following objectives:
Overall Purpose: To provide a forum for legislators and decision-
makers in national governments and leaders at all levels in
formulating gender-responsive legislation and programs related to
gender in climate change and disaster risk reduction.
Specific Objectives:
a) to understand the phenomenon of climate change, its impacts, and
its implications and study the appropriate risk reduction strategy;
b) to review and examine the gender aspects in climate change and
disaster risk reduction and formulate appropriate actions to address
these;
c) to define the roles women can play in addressing the impacts of
climate change and disaster risk reduction programs and policies at
the global, national and sub-national levels; and
d) to identify and define the action agenda for parliamentarians,
policy advocates, and women leaders to support global and national
actions to adapt gender responsive legislation and programs related to
gender in climate change and disaster risk reduction.
Congress Proceedings:
The discussion on gender in climate and disaster risk reduction change
will be organized around identifying the challenges to action as well
as defining the appropriate responses to effectively address the
impacts of climate change and disaster risk reduction. Inputs to the
discussion will be collected and organized around: 1) geographic
location and 2) types of actions: i.e. preparedness, risk reduction:
building community resilience; adaptation; and mitigation. Cross
cutting these discussions will be the identification of technologies
in aid of responding to climate change and preparedness thru disaster
risk reduction.
The focus of the discussions will revolve around defining and
elaborating actions (i.e. preparedness, disaster risk reduction,
adaptation, and mitigation) to cope with climate change and its
impacts and preparedness and disaster risk reduction.
Preparedness and disaster risk reduction is about building individual
and community capacities to position themselves and their communities
so that the likelihood of climate change-induced disasters is reduced;
the intensity or adverse impacts of disasters are cushioned and that
inhabitants are able to respond promptly, expeditiously and
effectively. Adaptation entails actions that moderate harm, or exploit
benefits, of climate change. Mitigation entails actions that
minimizes or cushions the adverse impacts of climate change.
In all of these actions, special attention will be given to defining
how women and gender could be mainstreamed. In other words, the
Congress should define how women can be given the social space to
participate, influence, and benefit from global and local responses to
climate change.
The registration fee for the four day congress is One thousand five
hundred fifty US Dollars (US$ 1,550.) per person for twin room sharing
accommodations (two persons in one room) and one thousand nine hundred
fifty US Dollars (US$ 1,950.) per person for single room
accommodations (one person in one room).
The training will be held on Oct 19-22, 2008. However, the
participants will be requested to be in Manila the day before, October
18, 2008 and leave Manila only on October 23, 2008. The overnight
hotel accommodation on October 18, 2008 is already included in the
fee. Participants will be billeted in the Dusit Hotel, the venue of
the congress and hotels near the Dusit Hotel, accessible within
walking distance. Room accommodations in the Dusit Hotel, the venue of
the Congress will be on a first come - first served basis.
Importance of the Congress
Today, on the average, one person out of nineteen in a developing
country will be hit by a climate disaster, compared to 1 out of 1,500
in an OECD country. Climate change creates life time traps: in Niger,
a child born during a drought is 72 percent more likely to be stunted
than a child born during a normal season.
We hope that your organization can send participants to the Third
Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance. The Theme of
“Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction” is the first
time this will be discussed in a forum whose objective is to formulate
gender responsive legislation and policies for national governments
and parliaments.
We truly hope that the environment organizations will find this forum
a good opportunity to advocate gender and climate change policies and
programs through gender responsive legislation to the women
parliamentarians, decision makers, the youth leaders, media and the
funding agencies/organizations. Let us join hands in promoting gender
responsive governance through transformative leadership and
citizenship. We are looking forward to your participation.
Please download the full information sheet and registration form for
this Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance from
our website, http://www.capwip.org/3rdglobalcongress.htm
Very truly yours,
(signed)
Jung-sook KIM (Ed.D.)
President
Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP)
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