Securing Gender Rights for Environmental Justice

Project Code: LA-WGO2

Project Title: Securing Gender Rights for Environmental Justice

Overview of Project: Social and environmental factors including climate change are increasing gender inequalities and causing women to lose access to resources; limiting their rights to water, food security or a clean, healthy or safe environment. Women at the grassroots level play very important roles in conservation and environmental sustainability, but often, their work and voice are not recognised and they are still largely absent from the decision making bodies that govern the use and control of natural resources. Enhancing the capacity of women is critical to ensuring economic growth.

This project is basically about lobbying for gender responsive and gender transformative policies and practices related to water, food security and a clean, healthy and safe environment in recognition of the fact that unequal relations of power based on gender are a key cause of the violations of women’s rights to these issues. As part of the objectives, local livelihood options would be strengthened and value chains developed for local crafts.

Volunteer Roles: Come join us let us work to secure gender rights and environmental justice. Come with creativity and innovativeness to support us on this project with the following:

• Undertaking community awareness on sustainable development issues including gender rights, biodiversity conservation, climate change and wise use of resources.
• New ideas to redesign and repackage local crafts such as reed mats and other products for commercial sales
• Helping to source avenues for marketing the produce as well as develop a system to return profits to the groups (developing a value chain). 
• Working with women to plant mangroves along lagoon (restoring degraded lands)
• Write publications or blog posts on project where possible and applicable.

Time Commitment: 2 weeks minimum

Qualification/Relevant Skills and Attitude: Preferred experience in sustainable development, natural resources management, women and gender related course; interest in community development. Lobby and advocacy including communication skills, an open mind and ability to work with adult and youth women groups!

Accommodation: Homestay and Guest House options available on request

Location: Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar site, -Volta Region