Africa’s Commemoration of International Women’s month- Egumeni Session

AUC-WGYD in collaboration with Crtve Development, UNICEF, and UN Women will host a virtual Egumeni session to close the month-long commemoration of 2022’s International women’s month.

Although climate change affects everyone, women are disproportionately impacted since they represent the majority of the world’s poor and are more dependent on natural resources. This disparity is called Climate Justice. Climate injustice is one of the least understood and socialized policy themes in contemporary African development. The root cause of this issue is the strained relationship between policy formation and contextualization, and the actual realities of local communities, most vulnerable and impacted by climate change. Top-down climate action campaigns and advocacy efforts fail to communicate how climate change links to and amplifies other social injustices such as gender inequality in a way that is understandable, accessible, and palatable to vulnerable groups, particularly young people and women.

It is against this backdrop that the partners coordinated a series of continental celebrations of International Women’s Day. This campaign runs throughout the month of March 2022, including a podcast series covering an array of relevant topics, under the theme “Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow” which will culminate with a virtual policy dialogue on March 31, 2022, at 3:00 PM EAT.

The event will be attended by the AUC departments, UN agencies, gender and youth activists, and CSOs from across the continent.

The podcast series is available on the links below

The event concept note is available here 

Event agenda is available here

Register here for the event