Policy paper

Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme: building women’s economic empowerment into climate transitions

This paper provides pre-reading for an FCDO conference: 'Building women's economic empowerment into climate transitions' at Wilton Park on 18 to 20 March 2024.

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
27 March 2024
This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

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Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW): building women’s economic empowerment into climate transitions, March 2024

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The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) organised a conference at Wilton Park on 18 to 20 March 2024 on the theme of building women’s economic empowerment into climate transitions.

The Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk was commissioned to develop pre-reading for each session to help participants prepare for the conference.

The conference aimed to:

  • inform a common understanding of gender inclusive climate transitions and share best practice
  • discuss the enabling environment for a green economy
  • identify the steps needed to build a community of actors
  • identify the roadblocks to achieving a gender inclusive green economy and the role of different stakeholders and sectors in addressing these

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Published 27 March 2024

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