[Regional Workshop] Gender, Environment and Climate Change Statistics

Women and men interact with the environment in a variety of ways. Understanding these connections is important to enhance social, economic, and environmental outcomes. In particular, exploring the gender and climate change nexus is key to reducing the differentiated impacts of disasters and climate change on women and men, promoting the empowerment and opportunities of women and men in all their diversities, enhancing their access to environmental decision-making, and ensuring a just transition. 

To support countries looking to measure the gender-climate-change nexus, ESCAP and UN Women have partnered and supported various countries with prioritizing gender-climate-change indicators at the national level, and explore available data sources that can be leveraged in each country to generate data for such indicators. In line with this effort, this regional workshop will bring together data producers and data users from across the region, to share experiences on the measurement of the nexus, and learn from others about potential solutions to fill related data gaps, enhance reporting towards global environmental commitments, and promote the use of these data for gender analysis, national policy design and monitoring of implementation.

The workshop is expected to enhance countries’ awareness of gender-environment-climate change issues and provide a space for knowledge exchange and the sharing of good practices. It will also promote user-producer dialogue and relationship-building, enabling future collaboration and providing participants with tools to better align data production with data use. Through interactive and hands-on sessions, participants will have the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of statistical methods and best practices on producing and using gender-environment-climate change data, share their country experiences, and find opportunities and solutions to advance this work in their countries.

Program Agenda

5 May 2025, Monday

08:30-09:30     Opening Session: Registration, Remarks, and Workshop Overview

09:30-10:40     Part I: Introduction to gender-environment-climate-change global commitments, frameworks and measurements

10:40-13:50     Part II: National Experiences in Identifying Gender-Climate-Change priority indicators

13:50-16:30     Part III: Leveraging regional frameworks to inform national gender-environment-climate change prioritization

6 May 2025, Tuesday

08:30-09:10     Opening Session: Registration and Recap of Day 1

09:10-13:00     Part IV: Filling gender-environment-climate change data gaps: tools and solutions

13:00-16:45     Part V: Using gender, environment and climate change data for global reporting

7 May 2025, Wednesday

08:30-09:15     Opening Session: Registration and Recap of Days 1 & 2

09:15-16:30     Part VI: Using gender, environment and climate-change data to inform national policy development and monitoring

16:30-17:00     Closing Remarks