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"This is
a timely opportunity to strengthen partnerships and engagement for
implementation of regional and global priorities on gender, climate change and
sustainable development, with the aim of demonstrating concrete policy results,
and also increasing support for women-led civil society groups and national
women's machineries in the Pacific region."
Pacific
Partnerships to Strengthen Gender, Climate Change Response and Sustainable
Development
PACIFIC
- INNOVATIVE PACIFIC REGIONAL MEETING FOR GENDER INCLUSION IN REGIONAL &
GLOBAL PRIORITIES - FOR STRATEGIC NETWORKS & CONCRETE POLICY IMPACTS
- The meeting will bring
together representatives of national, regional and global women-led civil
society organisations (CSOs) and networks, national women's machineries (NWMs)
and high-level state representatives from New York missions and capitals to
discuss, strategise and agree on priorities and political partnerships to
advance gender, climate change and disaster risk reduction positions in the
global sustainable development, post-2015 development and UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change multilateral agendas. The high-level meeting on 13
June will be chaired by the Honourable Enele Sopoaga, Prime Minister of Tuvalu,
This initiative is co-convened by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community
(SPC) and Diverse Voices and Action for Equality and the Pacific Youth Council.
Other partners include Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
(DAWN), UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office, the Fiji Women's Rights Movement,
The Women's Major Group on Sustainable Development, the Dag Hammarskjold
Foundation, the Global Fund for Women, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Women in
Europe for a Common Future (WECF) and the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA),
with many others providing expertise, and financial and other resources.
With the Pacific Plan review underway as well as global processes such as
preparation for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing
States, Beijing+20 (the upcoming review of progress made in the implementation
of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action), UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations High-level Political Forum on
Sustainable Development, and discussions on the post-2015 development agenda,
this is a timely opportunity to strengthen partnerships and engagement for
implementation of regional and global priorities on gender, climate change and
sustainable development, with the aim of demonstrating concrete policy results,
and also increasing support for women-led civil society groups and national
women's machineries in the Pacific region.
The process adopted in the meeting aims to accomplish the following objectives.
Firstly, to strategise and agree on urgent and long-term Pacific priorities and
state and civil society partnerships to advance transformative gender, climate
change and DRR positions into the global sustainable development agenda.
Secondly, participants will also identify how CSOs and NWMs can support negotiators
from Pacific missions and capital as they position Pacific priorities in global
advocacy tracks. Thirdly, participants will discuss how to strengthen
mechanisms to monitor implementation of policies, promote transparency,
accountability and dialogue throughout the global gender, sustainable
development and climate change agendas.