Gender Action

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

May 23, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$197,595

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Linking ifi-watchers and gender justice groups - gender action updated its gender toolkit for international finance watchers in 2011, providing a user friendly toolkit for civil society groups to incorporate gender perspectives into their work on the ifis or any other projects. All sections contain electronic hyperlinks to a vast array of available gender resources. Gender action also constantly responds to a stream of "engendering" requests for help from other ifi watcher groups and will continue to do so. In response to a request from the jamaa resource initiative, gender action held a capacity-building workshop for trainer-participants in kenya in 2011. The workshop was specifically designed for trainer-participants who are responsible for training stakeholders in their communities about using the information and tools, including advocacy strategies, learned at the workshop. During 2011, ga continued to chair the national council of women's organization's global women's issues task force. This chair allows gender action to involve an array of women's groups in global ifi watching.

Activity 3

Gender and climate change - responding to the ifis' simultaneously stepping up investments in environmentally-controversial infrastructure projects, such as fossil-fuel generating extractive industries, and managing climate investment funds (cifs) to help poor countries adapt and mitigate to climate change effects caused by rich countries, gender action monitored ifi climate initiatives throughout 2011. Gender action's 2011 publication, "governing climate funds: what will work for women?", highlights women and girls' disproportionate vulnerability to negative climate change impacts in developing countries, and demonstrates how they have been largely excluded from climate finance policies and programs. We show that women and girls must not only be included in adaptive and mitigative activities, but also recognized as agents of change who are essential to the success of climate change interventions. Another gender action report released in 2011, "broken promises," reveals that the chad-cameroon and west african pipelines, financed by the world bank, increased women's poverty and dependence on men; caused ecological degradation that destroyed women's livelihoods; discriminated against women in employment and compensation; excluded women in consultation processes; and led to increased prostitution.

Filer

EIN

26-0001404