IUCN's Environment and Gender Index (EGI) monitors progress toward gender equality and women's empowerment in the environmental arena, holding governments and policy makers accountable. Existing knowledge can effectively inform national gender and environment policies and their implementation, bridging data gaps and overcoming barriers, to formulate best practices for using sex-disaggregated data and establishing a way forward.

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Authors: Granat, M.; Owren, C.

Subjects: climate change, decision making, environmental policy, forest management, forests, gender relations, politics, women

Publication type: Brief, Publication

Year: 2015