Issues in Urban and Rural Environments: GreenCOM Gender Reports

摘要

GreenCOM The Environmental Education and Communication Project of USAID is jointly funded and managed by the Center for Environment; Center for Human Capacity Development and the Office of Women in Development of the Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support and Research. GreenCOM provides field support and conducts extensive operations research related to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of environmental education and communication programs in developing countries worldwide. Gender differences and the role of women play an important part in the impact of EE&C activities and, necessarily, in GreenCOM operations research and information exchange activities. The objective of R&D/WID in funding the services and activities is to integrate Women in Development (WID) issues, analyses, studies and information into GreenCOM activities. Experience has shown that integration of WID issues throughout a sectors activities produces greater impact than add-on WID activities. The same is thought to be true for large, complex projects such as GreenCOM. Although some funding was provided for stand-alone activities, it is integration that is sought by the provision of these funds.