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By Annonciata Byukusenge
This is the one of many issues raised by the participants attend Women Deliver Conference in Kigali, that the governments and states have to take care about the women facing with the impacts of climate change around the world.
Faith Bacon, population environment development advisor path foundation philippinos is one of speaker highlighted this issue.
“The governments and states need to collaborate with civil society in order to empowering vulnerable people facing the impacts of climate change especially women.”
She added that those people need to know how they can adapt, mitigate and resilient to the climate change.
Cilve Mutunga, Director of BUILD Project, said that is possible to use different resource funding the women in order to resolve that issues.
Women Deliver is under the theme: Spaces, Solidarity, and Solutions, the multi-sectoral conference will see feminists and other rights activists, together with different stakeholders in the quest for gender equality convene to find solutions to different challenges.
Women Deliver was founded in 2007 when it also held its ground-breaking meeting with almost 2,000 stakeholders in reproductive health.
The 2023 conference will be the sixth, and the first to be held in an African country.
Largest meeting on gender equality
The 2023 conference has an expected turn-up of 6,000 people in-person, and more than 200,000 online. This makes Women Deliver Conference the largest meeting on gender equality in the world.
Sixth meeting in Rwanda, first in Africa
For the past six years, similar conferences have happened in London, Washington DC, Kuala Lumpur, Denmark, and Vancouver.
The sixth meeting happening in Kigali, Rwanda, will be the first in Africa.
Aims to empower feminist movement
Among Women Deliver’s goals is to empower the feminist movement, catalyse collective action to advance gender equality, hold leaders accountable, and create space, among others.
