GenderCC - Women for Climate Justice: Having co-founded an organisation that serves to facilitate and coordinate an international network of women and gender experts working on climate change. Mostly working to develop, and help implement a multi-pronged strategy aiming to increase gender responsiveness of international climate change policies under the UNFCCC process. Coordinated a number of activities at UNFCCC conferences since 2005. Having achieved the official "observer constituency" status for women and gender experts in the UNFCCC process, GenderCC became the focal point for the constituency, facilitating the connections between women worldwide and the political process.
Having "survived" the Copenhagen climate conference (Dec 2009), we are looking ahead to continuing to raise women's voices, but also focus on developing the regional focal points for the network and pilot projects around the world.
Chair of the Board of Directors of Ecoagriculture Partners. "Ecoagriculture" refers to sustainable agriculture and associated natural resource management systems that embrace and simultaneously enhance productivity, rural livelihoods, ecosystem services and biodiversity. Ecoagriculture includes a wide range of systems and practices that integrate productivity goals (for crops, livestock, fish, trees and forests) with provision of ecosystem services including biodiversity and watershed services at a landscape scale. Ecoagriculture Partners is an independent non-government organisation, a node in a network of farmers and farmer organizations, non-government organizations, public agencies, scientific organizations, agribusiness and environmental conservation.
Supporting the Stakeholder Dialogue process that the Kuoni Group, a globally active tour operator headquatered in Switzerland, is starting in 2010. I work on process design and facilitation, as a consultant to Adelphi Consult. The Corporate Responsibility team at Kuoni is preparing a stakeholder dialogue on freshwater issues, starting in Egypt. Tourism developments and operations are water-intense, and competition for the scarce resource is wide-spread, particular in semi-arid and arid countries like Egypt. Dialogue, joint learning, and the balancing of interests between very different groups will be facilitated internally and with external stakeholders.
Co-coordinating
the Generative Change
Community (GCC),
focusing on action learning projects with change initiatives of various
kinds. GCC is working to help initiatives optimize the quality of
thinking and the quality of interaction in their design, planning,
implementation, evaluation and efforts to scale up. This
includes multi-stakeholder dialogues for policy and institutional
development; organizational development processes; monitoring and
evaluation processes; and other initiatives and projects that aim to
effectively create sustained change.
Helped facilitate the dialogue process Towards a Low Carbon Economy, initiated by the Government of Germany and implemented by InWent - Capacity Building International and Adelphi Research. A number of key emerging countries have been participating: Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa. A preparatory workshop held in December 2008 was followed by a first Dialogue Forum in April 2009. Subsequent dialogues are being held in participating countries, focusing on sustainable energy supply, energy consumption in cities, and land use & forest protection.
Prepared a report on Participatory Dialogue and Social Integration for the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Social Policy and Development, published in February 2007.
Previously member
of the UN DESA Expert Group "Dialogue in the Social Integration
Process: Building peacueful social relations - by, for and with
people", convened in November 2005, and a subsequent Expert Group Meeting convened by UNDESA, UN Habitat and UNESCO, in September 2007 in Paris.
Supporting the development and implementation of the Leadership for Conservation in Africa initiative (LCA) since its inaugural meeting in August 2006. The LCA is a partnership between the conservation agencies of (so far) 13 African countries and African and international businesses. Initiated by South African National Parks, Gold Fields, and IUCN Southern Africa, the LCA aims to further conservation-led development across Africa through creating enabling environments, building capacities, and brokering strategic exchange and investment.
A partner of SD2 Partners - Stakeholder Dynamics for Sustainable Development: SD2 Partners Ltd is a ‘young consultancy’ made up of ‘old hands’ in their respective fields of international business, environmental management systems, socially responsible investment, and stakeholder dialogue and partnership brokering. SD2 Partners helps companies to understand, adapt to, and use their dynamic stakeholder environment, enabling clients to act rather than re-act, using a targeted approach that focuses on identifying economic consequences in relation to stakeholder engagement, leading to improved corporate strategy and risk/opportunity management.
Participation in the work of the UN ECE / Arhus Convention Expert Group / Task Force on Public Participation in International Forums, developing the Almaty Guidelines for the Parties of the Convention (UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, Arhus Convention), and reviewing participation practice in other forums.
Member of the Jury for Swiss Re's International ReSource Award for Sustainable Watershed Management; since 2003. Swiss Re's Resource Award is designed to recognise projects that preserve the ecological, social and economic value of water resources. The global reinsurer supports water projects across the world and is committed to creating feasible and binding conditions to protect this vital resource. For more information, including about the 2004 ReSource Award, criteria and application deadlines, please visit the website.
Member of the Independent Advisory Panel for the One World Trust's Global Accountability Project (GAP). Initiated in 2000, GAP compares the accountability of intergovernmental organisations (IGOs), transnational corporations (TNCs) and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs). At the heart of the project is a unique framework which identifies core organisational dimensions crucial to fostering greater accountability.