The Women's Major Group calls for deep structural transformations to international sustainable development and small island developing states to ensure gender equality and human rights are central to development frameworks. They propose amendments to strengthen language on gender equality, civil society participation, human rights, and aligning economic policies with human rights in the outcome document of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States. Specific proposals include strengthening language on women's empowerment, democracy, good governance, regulating foreign investment and financial markets, and ensuring financing for development supports gender equality and human rights.

1. Women’s Major Group Response:
Zero Draft of the Outcome of the
Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States
Introduction
For brevity and upon request, this paper concentrates on Women’s Major Group (WMG) text
proposals in response to the Zero Draft of the Outcome of the Third International Conference on
Small Island Developing States (SIDS), framed within the context of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and post-2015 development agenda. For broader key concerns and analysis beyond
the summary below, we direct you to the WMG website.1
Summary
The Women’s Major Group calls for deep structural transformation to international sustainable
development, including in small island developing states (SIDS). We reaffirm hard-won gains
related to gender equality, human rights and sustainable development as far back as the Earth
Summit in 1992 and through to the Rio+20 Summit in all areas of women’s and girl’s human
rights, including the right to life and development.
The Third Global Conference on SIDS in Samoa is indeed an opportunity for all States to make
good on commitments made to SIDS over the years, embodied in the Barbados Programme of
Action, the Mauritius Strategy for further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the
Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, and in Rio+20 Outcome statement,
‘The Future We Want’. It is similarly time to ensure that gender equality and women’s human
rights are at the core of the SIDS development agenda.
Our concern is that this is not yet articulated throughout the zero draft of the Outcome document.
The SIDS Third Global Conference must build on long-agreed human rights and development
frameworks and integrate gender equality and a human rights architecture into the SIDS
development agenda. States must protect and fulfil universal human rights, and the principles of
non-regression, progressive realisation, equity, equality, non-discrimination, accountability and
participation and guarantee the full implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all
Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its optional protocol, as well as other
human rights’ instruments.
The SIDs outcome document must also be aspirational, and strive for deep structural and
transformational changes firmly rooted in human rights obligations and Agenda 21 principles of
sustainable development. Social, economic and ecological justice, including gender equality and
women’s and girls human rights, must be firmly embedded throughout.
1 The Women’s Major Group was created as a result of the United Nations 1992 Rio Earth Summit, that recognized
women as one of the nine major groups of civil society whose participation in decision-making is essential for achieving
sustainable development. The Women’s Major Group (WMG) is organized globally with over 500 representatives of
NGOs and social movements and contributes to the SIDs PostRio+20 process through national engagements; 2013
SIDS Regional and Interregional meetings; OWGs and Third Global Conference preparations, among others. Prior
papers can be downloaded from the WMG website: http://womenrio20.org/policy_statements.php

2. Specifically, WMG text amendments for your consideration, as follows:
On the Preamble:
• Affirming mention of civil society in the first paragraph, and calling for extended language
to include ‘civil society and Major groups, social movements and indigenous groups’ as more
fully representative of constituent groups;
• Proposing new additional stand-alone preambular paragraph as new Pp5 or Pp11 on
gender and sustainable development, as follows, “We reaffirm the outcome document of the
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The Future We Want”, which
recognised, inter alia, the vital role of women in achieving sustainable development and resolved
to unlock the potential of women of all ages as drivers, agents and equal beneficiaries of
sustainable development.”2
• Proposing to strengthen Pp 10 with right-based frame as follows, “We commit ourselves to act
together so that the peoples of SIDS realise their human right to development”
• Proposing new Pp11 to acknowledge the need for enabling conditions for sustainable
development in SIDS “We acknowledge that democracy, good governance and the rule of law, at
the national and international levels, as well as an enabling environment, are essential for
sustainable, equitable and inclusive social and economic development, gender equality,
environmental protection and the eradication of poverty and hunger. We reaffirm that to achieve
our sustainable development goals we need institutions at all levels that are effective,
transparent, accountable and democratic.”3
On ‘Progress, Challenges and Opportunities, and Pragmatic Actions to Address Them’
• Pp12. Agreeing and proposing extension as follows “...action to address climate change [insert:
and ocean acidification, on disaster risk and response,] in protecting biodiversity, and in
adopting strategies for promoting renewable energy.”
• Pp13. Propose major reformulation of this critical paragraph for greater recognition of CBDR and
historical responsibility and to reflect that no matter how robust and effective SIDS national
efforts (as important as they are), the current global multiple and interlinked crises require not
just “strong partnership with the international community and on enhanced international
cooperation and action to address global sustainable development challenges” but rather
explicitly aligning both microeconomic and macroeconomic policies with human rights. Potential
points to include are inter alia:
• Review and end some international trade and investment agreements proven to weaken
SIDs capacity to allow space for national monetary, fiscal and wage counter-cyclical
policies to absorb external shocks, and implement effective rights-based policies;
• Regulate Foreign Direct Investment, with performance requirements on decent work,
capacity and technology transfer, environmental repair, restoration and care;
• Reorient national development strategies to prioritize domestic productive capacity
driven largely by domestic and regional demand, based on waged/remunerated
employment creation and diverse economic sectors;
• Regulate commodity markets and limit fluctuations in food prices, including through a
ban on food speculation;
• Regulate financial markets in order to put them at the service of the real economy;
2 CSW58 Agreed Outcomes, pp7. Addition, ‘women of all ages’.
3 Rio+20, ‘The Future We Want’, Based on Pp10.

3. • Transform the International financial architecture, making it more democratic,
accountable and transparent, to allow monitoring of capital outflows and controlling illicit
and volatile financial flows;
• Implement a global financial transaction tax to mobilize resources for sustainable
development and genuine gender driven national and regional programs;
• Reform tax systems to improve government revenue and eliminate regressive impacts;
• Implement Gender Responsive Budgets, to ensure domestic resource mobilization to
comply with women´s human rights;
• Eliminate tax evasion and close tax havens;
• Fully implement the Special and Differential Treatment principle for developing countries
including SIDS and LDCs, remove subsidies in developed countries, especially in
agriculture and review the Intellectual Property Rights rules in order to protect public
health and equitably share the benefits of natural resources;
• Review and cancel external debts on a case by case basis, ensuring that external debt
payments from Southern countries to the North do not impact a country’s ability to
guarantee human rights to its citizens;
• Apply the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in application of trade and investment agreements;
• Make loan standards favourable to the public over the private sector, improve efficiency,
reduce corruption, and increase availability and flexibility of public investment;
• Create new mechanism for financing for development that replace or go beyond Official
Development Assistance (ODA). These new mechanisms should be based on respect,
solidarity, equity, inclusion , non-subordination and justice for all;
• Ensure that donors in financing for development establish clear, measurable, and time-bound
gender equality and human rights objectives, and put in place accountability
mechanisms for resources allocated, disbursed and implemented;
• Develop funding strategies that take into account women’s organisations’ creative
strategies and close connections with indigenous, ethnic minority and other grassroots
women’s concerns.
On ‘Sustainable Economic Development’, as follows:
• Pp15. Propose strengthening, ie: “SIDS have not sustained high levels of economic growth and
continue to be negatively impacted by, inter alia, [insert: climate change, ocean acidification
and extreme weather events], food insecurity, lack of adequate transport networks and other
infrastructure, degradation of their coastal and marine environments, water insecurity,
inadequate waste management systems, heavy debt burdens and the adverse impacts of the
global economic and financial crisis.”
• pp16. “In the face of these challenges, it is vitally important to build the resilience of SIDS
societies and economies and to recognize that people are the greatest natural resource of SIDS.
To reach their full potential, SIDS with international support will need to invest even more in the
education and training of their people. They will need to achieve higher [insert: and sustainable]
rates of economic growth and job creation, to address high rates of unemployment (particularly
of women and youth) as well as to slow migration of labour and brain drain. [Insert:
Redistributive production and reproduction], macro-economic policies, effective and
sustainable economic management, fiscal predictability, investment and regulatory certainty,
and sustainable debt are also critical [insert: to achieve universal social protection floors,
living wages and decent work for all.]
• pp17. Strengthen as follows: “We recognise that the private sector plays [delete: an increasingly
important] [insert: a role] in achieving sustainable development [Insert: and SIDS governments
with the international community must therefore take immediate measures to ensure that
the private sector is fully accountable and transparent, at the very least respecting human
rights and the environment, including by mandating independent, rigorous and periodic
human rights and environmental impact assessments of medium and large businesses,

4. and with particular attention to transnational corporations, including trans-boundary
activities.]”4
• pp 18. “We agree to take the following actions:
a) Support investments in formal and non-formal education, including entrepreneurial
skills development, and in building and strengthening education infrastructure.
b) Build capacity and increase the competitiveness of micro, small and medium enterprises
and new social actors of SIDS economies.
New c) [Insert: Support programmes that advance gender equality and women's rights
in all areas of economic activities including agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture,
including recognition and support of women’s contributions to small scale and
artisan fisheries and aquaculture, commercial fisheries, oceans and seas use and
care;]5
c) Support national and regional initiatives that help to increase the capacity and
developmental impact of the financial services industry in SIDS.
d) Create local jobs through public projects in the area of climate change resilience and
adaptation and encourage entrepreneurs start up environment friendly enterprises,
through adequate incentives.
e) Foster private sector investment and job creation, particularly the creation of decent
[insert: work] and green jobs.
f) Develop innovative programs to address youth unemployment.
g) Establish an inter- and intra-regional trade information and facilitation platform to
facilitate information sharing.”
• Pp19 Strengthen f) “Encourage establishment and maintenance of [insert: clear and
transparent, government led] governance and management structures for tourism, which bring
together tourism, [insert: human rights, gender,] environment, health, [insert: education,
climate change and ocean acidification,] disaster management, culture, transport, security and
immigration, planning and development responsibilities and expertise, and enable a meaningful
partnership approach between the public and private sector and local community.”
• Pp 20. Strengthen, as follows: “High levels of debt threaten the sustainable development of many
SIDS and, as such, [insert: with the international community] we will explore a number of
innovative [insert: and coordinated] means of addressing this problem [insert: through policies
aimed at debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate], including,
New a) [Insert: Creation of a multilaterally led and transparent international debt
resolution mechanism]6
a) Adding a criterion of vulnerability to eligibility criteria to access concessional finance of
international finance institutions.
b) Offering counter-cyclical lending contracts that substantially diminish debt servicing in
periods of external shocks.
c) Exploring debt-for-climate change adaptation and mitigation schemes.
d) Enhancing [Insert: and where needed, extending] the “smooth transition” period for
SIDS that have recently graduated from Least Developed Country (LDC) status.”
4 Statement by Righting Finance Initiative on “Co-Creating New Partnerships for Financing Sustainable Development”
April 3-4, 2014, Helsinki, Finland.
5 CSW58 Agreed Outcomes, Merge of bb) and cc)
6 Women’s Major Group Contribution for the Fifth Session of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development
Goals Analysis and key recommendations on Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth and Macroeconomic policy.
(Nov 2013). The total external debts of developing countries reached $4.5 trillion between 2010-2011. Particularly in
developing countries that have lesser degrees of access to private capital markets and monetary policy tools, there are
dire consequences of debt burdens on fiscal space. Foreign exchange earnings are funneled into external debt servicing
obligations rather than for key imports payments necessary to sustain and build the domestic economy or to public
investments vital to national development needs and fulfillment of people’s human rights. A reduction of the external debt
stock is indispensable to national economic recovery, as it has the potential (if political will is exercised) to re-direct
national earnings from debt repayments to public expenditure and to policies that privilege the transformation of national
and regional economies to meet local needs in consumption and production.

5. • Change to section heading: ‘Climate Change [Insert: and Ocean Acidification]
• Pp 24. Strengthen as follows, “c) Address the [insert: immediate, medium-term and slow-onset
human rights and] security implications of climate change [insert: and ocean
acidification], including violation of territorial integrity [Insert: ,right to life and right to
development], more frequent and severe climate-related disasters, [insert: existing loss and
damage,] threats to water and food security, [insert: breakdown of ecosystems and] increased
natural resource scarcity, and forced displacement and the [insert: gendered] human [insert:
rights] dimensions of climate change, including where necessary, initiatives for preparing
communities for relocation.
• Pp24. Propose deletion of sub-point e). Rationale: Recent studies have shown major problems
with REDD+ programmes, showing failures to address both direct drivers and underlying causes
of deforestation and forest degradation. The issues are compounded by poor governance,
including corruption, conflicts between national and local authorities, and insufficient resources
and institutional capacity — all of which serve to increase the influence of the private sector on
an ongoing basis (as does REDD+ itself). According to the Global Forest Coalition, there is thus
an inherent problem with the design of REDD+ as a mechanism that financially rewards
countries and private sector projects for performance in reducing emissions from forest loss.7
• Proposed change to section heading, for strength and accuracy: ‘Sustainable, Renewable,
Affordable Energy for All’;
• Pp27. Proposed new e) as follows, “Ensuring a gender equality and human rights approach to
safe, sustainable, renewable and environmentally sound energy programmes in SIDS, such that
women are engaged as full partners in decision-making on sustainable energy and that all
programmes include attention to capacity building and technology transfer according to CBDR,
with attention to women’s specific energy needs.”8
• Pp30. “Strongly support paragraph with minor alterations as follows. Amid strong concerns
about still-largely experimental seabed mining by state and non-state development
stakeholders propose deletion of mention, ie. “Oceans and seas, along with coastal areas, form
an essential component of the Earth’s ecosystem and are intrinsically linked to sustainable
development. Healthy, productive and resilient oceans are critical for poverty eradication, food
security, livelihoods, and carbon sequestration, and represent an important element of identity
and culture for the people of SIDS. Fisheries, coastal tourism [delete:, possible exploitation of
seabed resources] and potential sources of renewable energy are the building blocks of an
ocean-based economy in SIDS. SIDS [insert: peoples] are custodians of vast expanses of oceans
and as such they must have ownership of strategies concerning the sustainable development of
oceans. Already they have shown [insert: global] leadership in, inter alia, advancing marine
protected areas [Insert:, repair and protection of ecosystems and high biodiversity areas,
and on trade-fair and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture].
• Pp31, Proposing for strengthened UNCLOS, as follows: “We note that the UN Convention on the
Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use
of oceans and their resources [Insert:, and call for a multilaterally negotiated legally-binding
regime to update and strengthen UNCLOS and harmonise with SDG goals, targets and
indicators, leading to coordinated monitoring and enforcement for the full range of threats
7 ‘REDD+ and the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation’. Global Forest Coalition
Report. 2013. Multi-year and country project and report to analyse the underlying causes of forest
biodiversity loss in five important forest countries, Brazil, Colombia, Tanzania, Uganda and India. Analysis on
the underlying causes of forest loss and to what extent they are being addressed by REDD+
8 See ‘Fact sheet on energy, gender and sustainable development’. Energia and UNDP: http://
www.energia.org/fileadmin/files/media/factsheets/factsheet_general.pdf

6. to ocean sustainability and for global biosphere protection, including in areas beyond
national jurisdiction.]9
• Pp33. Addition, as follows: “a) Support SIDS’ national and regional efforts to assess, [insert:
repair and restore,] conserve and sustainably manage the oceans, seas and their marine
resources, including through supporting research and implementation of plans and strategies on
[delete: coastal zone management] [insert: ridge to reef] and ecosystem based management, as
well as [insert: strengthening] [delete: enhancing] the legal [insert: regulatory] and institutional
frameworks for [insert: exploration,], licensing and [delete: exploitation] [insert:use] of natural
and mineral resources [delete.] [insert: with production of independent, robust, publicly
available and financed environmental, social and economic analyses and reports, including
on the companies involved in such enterprises.10]
• PP33 d) strengthened as follows: “d) Take urgent action to protect coral reefs, including through
the development and implementation of comprehensive and integrated approaches for their
management and the enhancement of their resilience to withstand pressures, including [insert:
climate change,] ocean acidification, [insert: land and marine pollution, invasive alien
species] and [insert: through] the implementation of area-based management measures
[delete:.] [insert: and strong and transparent global multilateral oceans and seas
governance systems.]”
• P33 g) Strengthened as follows: “g) Call on the UN system and regional fisheries bodies to give
increased attention to the [Insert: importance, sustainability and] value of small-scale [Insert:
and artisanal] fisheries [Insert: and aquaculture to nutrition and food security in SIDS, and
including the currently under-recognised roles of women and girls.]”
• Pp35, b) strengthening as follows, “b) Enhance international cooperation to dampen global food
price volatility [delete:.] [Insert: by regulating commodity markets and limiting fluctuations in
food prices, including through a ban on food speculation.]”
• Pp35, New sub-point f) as follows: “f) Socially just and ecologically responsible land reform,
fiscal reform and programmes that support sustainable small-scale agriculture and livestock
production, fisheries and aquaculture, and agro-ecological production processes, where
smallholder farmers, pastoralists and fisherfolk, including women, are recognized as key
economic actors and their right to use and access land and aquatic resources, forests and other
ecosystems is legally protected.”
• Proposed change to section heading to: ‘Water and sanitation’, to reflect full water cycle and
usages, as per existing text.
• Pp36, strengthened as follows, “Small islands face numerous challenges with respect to
freshwater resources, including pollution, saline intrusion, soil erosion and waste water.
Changes in rainfall patterns due to climate change [Insert:, sea-level rise, king tides and
9 Women’s Major Group (WMG) contribution for the Eighth Session of the Open Working Group on the
Sustainable Development Goals (OWG8), on Oceans and Seas. February, 2014
10 Statement by Righting Finance Initiative on “Co-Creating New Partnerships for Financing Sustainable Development”
April 3-4, 2014, Helsinki, Finland: Some criteria to be answered by private actors engaged in such enterprises include,
(a) whether the private actor has a history or current status of serious allegations of abusing human rights or the
environment, including in their cross-border activities;
(b) whether the private actor has a proven track record (or the potential to) deliver on sustainable development, as
articulated by the UN outcome by 2015;
(c) whether the private actor has previous involvement in acts of corruption with government officials;
(d) whether the private actor is fully transparent in its financial reporting and fully respecting existing tax responsibilities in
all countries it operates, and not undermining sustainable development through tax avoidance;
(e) any conflicts of interest in order to eliminate potential private donors whose activities are antithetical or contradictory
to the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and the SDG framework.

7. extreme weather events] have a huge impact on water availability and quality[delete: .] [Insert:
as well as having wider linked effects on health, food security and other social needs].
• Pp 37, a) Strengthen with gender framework, as follows: “Support the development of
institutional and human capacities involved in water conservation [delete: .] [Insert: including
gender analysis and mainstreaming approach so as to ensure universal, effective and
rights-based response.]
• Pp39, a) Strengthen as follows, “Promote access to environmentally sound, safe and affordable
[Insert: marine and land] transportation [delete: .] [Insert: including specific attention to the
needs of rural and remote SIDS communities]”
• New Pp 41, as follows: “Sustainable consumption and production necessitates elimination of
hazardous substances and technologies from land and marine ecosystems. SIDS with the
international community to make immediate and meaningful reductions in land-based activities
creating 80% of ocean pollution from toxic chemical and heavy metal wastes and nuclear
contaminants.”
• Pp43, e) strengthened, as follows: “e) Establish special protected [insert: nuclear-free] zones
[Delete:, where appropriate,] to [delete: restrict] [insert: ban] the passage of ships carrying
nuclear waste and radioactive materials, through international cooperation.”
• Pp44 strengthened and broadened to include climate change and health related issues: “We
recognise that communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, [Insert: dengue]
and influenza, as well as non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continue to present serious
challenges to the sustainable development efforts of SIDS. Indeed, the burden and threat of
NCDs [Insert: and climate change exacerbated health crises] constitute [Delete: one of] the
major challenges for SIDS in the twenty-first century.”
• Insert new health gender and health sub-points as new e) et al:
• “e) Develop and implement comprehensive strategies to address the social determinants of
health and the links between climate change, environment and health;”
• “f) Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health, including health care services
that are equitable, comprehensive, integrated, respecting human rights, of high quality and
accessible through the primary health care system.”11
• “g) Ensure universal access to comprehensive prevention, affordable treatment, care and
support services for HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections, free of stigma and
discrimination, with a gender perspective, and to provide comprehensive information,
voluntary counseling and testing to young women and adolescent girls living and affected
with HIV and AIDS;"12
• “h) Recognize and protect traditional health practices by Indigenous Peoples and women”
• Amendment to sub-heading for strengthening and accuracy : ‘GENDER EQUALITY, WOMEN’S
HUMAN RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT’
• Pp46, strengthen as follows: “[Insert: SIDs States reaffirm that the promotion and protection
of, and respect for, the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women, including the
right to development, which are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,
should be mainstreamed into all policies and programmes aimed at the eradication of
poverty, and also reaffirms the need to take measures to ensure that every person is
entitled to participate in, contribute to and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political
11 Asian and Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Population and Development. Based on merge of pp76 and 145
12 CSW58 Agreed Outcomes, Pp p)

8. development.]13 Empowerment of women and girls has a transformative and multiplier effect on
development activities and gains. Women [Delete: can be] [Insert:, of all ages are] powerful
agents of change.”
• Pp47 a), as follows: “a) Support SIDS’ efforts to integrate gender perspectives in [Insert: all]
priority areas [delete: for] [Insert: of] sustainable development.”
• Pp47 b) as follows: “b) Support SIDS efforts to strengthen women’s [Insert: social,] economic,
[Insert: cultural, civil and political rights] [Delete: empowerment and employment], end
violence against women [Insert: and girls], increase participation and leadership in national
legislative bodies, and improve access to good quality [Insert: formal, informal and non-formal]
education, and health [Insert: care services that are equitable, comprehensive,
integrated, respecting human rights, of high quality and accessible through the primary
health care system, including comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), and] maternal
health services.”
• Additional sub point, new e) related to section on climate change, as follows: ‘We note that
women and girls in SIDS are disproportionally affected by desertification, deforestation,
natural disasters and climate change due to gender inequalities, and the dependence of
many women on natural resources for their livelihoods. Therefore needing to promote
the integration of a gender perspective in environmental and climate change policies
and support women’s full and equal participation in decision-making at all levels on
environmental issues, in particular on strategies and policies related to the impacts of
climate change, such as extreme weather events and slow onset impacts, including
drought, ocean acidification, sea level rise, and loss of biodiversity on the lives of
women and girls”14
• Additional sub point, new f) on decent work, as follows: “Ensure women’s right to work and
rights at work through gender-responsive policies and programmes that promote women’s
economic empowerment, including decent work for all, and promote women’s full and equal
participation in the formal economy, in particular in economic decision-making, and
empower women in the informal economy, with particular attention to women domestic
workers, who are entitled to the same basic rights as other workers, including protection
from violence and abuse, fair terms of employment, and a safe and healthy working
environment;15
• Additional sub point, new g) on oceans and seas, women’s economic rights and food
security, as follows: “Recognize, resource, and support programmes that advance gender
equality and women's rights in all areas of economic activities including fisheries and
aquaculture to address food security and nutrition, and meaningfully facilitate women’s
contributions to small scale and artisan fisheries and aquaculture, commercial fisheries,
oceans and seas use and care;16
• Additional sub point, new h) on gender and sustainable, renewable and affordable energy,
as follows: “Availability of environmentally sound, renewable and affordable fuel options,
improved stoves, electricity systems including solar designs, and mechanical power to
13 CSW58 Agreed Outcomes, Based on Pp11
14 CSW58 Agreed Outcomes, Based on Pp
15 CSW58 Agreed Outcomes, Based on Pp z)
16 CSW58 Agreed Outcomes, Based on Pp cc)

9. significantly improve quality of life for women and girls and relieve them of much difficult,
unpaid daily energy-related work.”17
• Additional sub point, new i) on gender, disaster risk and response, as follows: “Ensure a
comprehensive approach to address the hardships faced by women and girls in SIDS by
integrating their specific needs into humanitarian response to natural disasters and into the
planning, delivery and monitoring of disaster risk reduction policies to address natural
disasters and climate change, and ensuring sustainable natural resources management;
gendered approaches to early warning systems, pre-disaster risk reduction and post-disaster
recovery, and disaster readiness programs with women and girls in urban and rural
settings, and their wider communities.”
Women’s Major Group thematic analyses and advocacy papers are at the website: http://
www.womenrio20.org
For information on WMG SIDS Cluster activities or above proposals, please contact focal
point:
Noelene Nabulivou,
Diverse Voices and Action for Equality, Fiji
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Associate
noelenen@gmail.com
17 See ‘Fact sheet on energy, gender and sustainable development’. Energia and UNDP: http://www.energia.org/
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