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Sandy Lyen is a 20-something artisan woodworker and entrepreneur from Beirut, Lebanon. Like many young, educated Lebanese women today, Sandy is creating new and innovative opportunities for self-employment by tapping into Lebanon's growing market for locally-made artisanal goods. As a member and partial owner of a Beirut-based artisan cooperative, Sandy has access to a shared studio space and collectively-owned equipment. Through specialized relationships with urban retail outlets, Sandy and the other cooperative members can take their products directly to consumers and expand their professional networks by hosting public events and open-house exhibitions in one of Lebanon's most up-and-coming neighbourhoods.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
In the Katfoura village on the Tristao Islands in Guinea, the civil society organization Partenariat Recherches Environnement Medias (PREM) is providing rural women with new opportunities to generate income and improve community life.
Through a grant from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, PREM has helped rural women form several cooperatives and taught its members how to plant a vitamin-rich tree called Moringa and how to clean, dry and sell its leaves. Used as medicine or a dietary supplement by societies around the world, Moringa also supports biodiversity and prevents soil erosion.
The cooperatives are made up of local women who come together to share ideas, and they give women an opportunity to build leadership skills, strengthen community bonds, and participate in economic decisions that affect the community.
PREM is one of over 120 civil society organizations that has been awarded a grant by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality since 2009. In the last six years, the Fund for Gender Equality has successfully awarded USD $64 million to grantee programmes in 80 countries. To date, such programmes have reached over 10 million women, girls and boys as direct beneficiaries.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Read more about the Fund for Gender Equality: www.unwomen.org/en/trust-funds/fund-for-gender-equality
MENNA – meaning ‘from us’, or ‘made by our hands’ in Arabic – is a nation-wide network of over 650 rural and refugee women producers and cooperatives in Lebanon. In 2015, Amel Association International – a grantee of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality – launched its first permanent MENNA shop in Beirut, giving network members a year-round space to sell their handmade goods to the public.
Pictured above, cooperative members in southern Lebanon make a rare, traditional bread called Mallet El Smid to be sold at the MENNA shop in Beirut.
The Mawasem El Dayaa Women’s Cooperative is among the last producers of this signature bread and one of 14 rural women’s cooperatives to benefit from the vocational trainings and market opportunities offered by Amel Association’s MENNA project.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
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In 1959, unlike its competitors like Jaguar or Triumph, equipped with very powerful engines, this berlinette of French manufacture had only a flat cylinder of 750 CC.
It aimed not the first place, inaccessible at overall standings, but the so-called 'performance index', which it achieved with flying colors.
As its name suggests, it was a performance ratio between the chassis and the engine that made the most of the fuel consumed. A first towards a "sustainable development" ...
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Contrairement à ses concurrents comme Jaguar ou Triumph, équipés de moteurs très puissants, cette berlinette de fabrication française ne disposait que d'un bicylindres à plat de 750 CC.
Elle visait, non pas une inaccessible première place au classement général mais celle dite de 'l'indice de performance". CE qu'elle obtint avec brio.
Comme son nom l'indique, il s'agissait de distinguer un ensemble chassis-moteur qui tirait le meilleur parti du carburant consommé. Un premier vers un "développement durable" …
Hima is an ancient practice used by rural communities in Lebanon to ensure economic cooperation, sustainability and equitable resource management.
Rural women have traditionally played key leadership and decision-making roles in the Hima community model.
Today, one conservation-minded organisation – the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) – is reviving the ancient Hima approach to help rural women reassert their traditional leadership roles in community life.
With support from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, SPNL is supporting rural Lebanese women and local municipalities to become partners and champions of the environment by promoting local ownership of sustainable resource management.
Pictured: Habiba, a shepherd in rural Lebanon and member of a Hima community, tends to her flock.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
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Lebanon, 2015.
Portrait of domestic worker Hellina Desta.
Seven years ago, Hellina migrated from Ethiopia to work in Beirut, Lebanon. She has been working for her current employer for five years and plans to keep living and working in Lebanon.
Lebanon emerged from a 15-year civil war in 1990, beginning its slow but steady recovery. Today it is considered an upper-middle-income country, but economic gains are inequitably distributed among social groups and skewed towards urban areas.
Photo: UN Women/ Joe Saade
Read More about the Fund for Gender Equality's work to support women’s empowerment and gender equality in fragile states: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2016/3/su...
Sandy Lyen is a 20-something artisan woodworker and entrepreneur from Beirut, Lebanon. Like many young, educated Lebanese women today, Sandy is creating new and innovative opportunities for self-employment by tapping into Lebanon's growing market for locally-made artisanal goods. As a member and partial owner of a Beirut-based artisan cooperative, Sandy has access to a shared studio space and collectively-owned equipment. Through specialized relationships with urban retail outlets, Sandy and the other cooperative members can take their products directly to consumers and expand their professional networks by hosting public events and open-house exhibitions in one of Lebanon's most up-and-coming neighbourhoods.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Najwa Krishk Mortada co-owns a wheat processing shop with her husband. The machines are dangerous and this means they don’t want to employ anybody else. They work alone and trust each other. The work is seasonal - just three months of the year during the harvest. She is happy to have her work close to her house and to work alongside her husband.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
In the Katfoura village on the Tristao Islands in Guinea, the civil society organization Partenariat Recherches Environnement Medias (PREM) is providing rural women with new opportunities to generate income and improve community life.
Through a grant from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, PREM has helped rural women form several cooperatives and taught its members how to plant a vitamin-rich tree called Moringa and how to clean, dry and sell its leaves. Used as medicine or a dietary supplement by societies around the world, Moringa also supports biodiversity and prevents soil erosion.
The cooperatives are made up of local women who come together to share ideas, and they give women an opportunity to build leadership skills, strengthen community bonds, and participate in economic decisions that affect the community.
PREM is one of over 120 civil society organizations that has been awarded a grant by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality since 2009. In the last six years, the Fund for Gender Equality has successfully awarded USD $64 million to grantee programmes in 80 countries. To date, such programmes have reached over 10 million women, girls and boys as direct beneficiaries.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Read more about the Fund for Gender Equality: www.unwomen.org/en/trust-funds/fund-for-gender-equality
Lebanon, 2015.
Portrait of clothing designer Lara Khoury in her studio in Beirut. Lebanon emerged from a 15-year civil war in 1990, beginning its slow but steady recovery. Today it is considered an upper-middle-income country, but economic gains are inequitably distributed among social groups and skewed towards urban areas.
Photo: UN Women/ Joe Saade
Read More about Supporting Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Fragile States: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2016/3/su...
Detail of the High-level event on “Pathways to Zero Hunger” co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), in collaboration with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG), the United Nations Global Compact and the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth.
UN Photo/JC McIlwaine
United Nations, New York
ID: 695063
Martha Alicia Benavente, from Tucurú, a small municipality in Guatemala trained for six months to become a solar engineer, and she is bursting with energy. She can’t wait to start building solar lamps so that her community can have sustainable energy at last. One solar lamp could sell for up to 200 Quetzals, a lucrative business opportunity for a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field.
In her words:
"There are more than 90 families in this community, none of the homes have access to energy.
Seven months ago, the Mayor of Tucurú selected me to go to the Barefoot College in India to learn solar engineering. I said, give me thirty minutes to think about it, the Mayor said, you have fifteen.
When I got on the airplane and it took off, I screamed! It was my first time, flying over the Pacific Ocean.
I used to be a domestic worker at a professor’s house in Tucurú before joining this programme. My day started at four in the morning. I would wake up early to go to the mill to get the corn for the tortillas for my children. Then I ran to work by 6:30 am. At my employer’s house, I cooked, swept the house, did dishes, showered the children and took them to school… and then ran to pick them up from school in the afternoon. For all this work, I got 500 Quetzals every month. It wasn’t enough to meet all our needs.
The six months I spent in India at the Barefoot College were also not easy. I got sick, and sometimes wondered if it was better to remain a domestic worker. But little by little, I learned everything. I learned how to make solar lamps.
Look at this solar lamp that I made at Barefoot College. Before I had the lamp, I used to spend 5 – 10 Quetzals every day to light candles. Or we would stay in the dark sometimes, because the store wouldn’t give us credit to buy more candles. I had to finish all my chores at home by 7 p.m.
Now, if I have all the materials, I can build a solar lamp in 20 minutes!
Right now, the biggest challenge is how to put into practice what I learned in India and to train more women. There are many mothers here who want to learn and who can benefit…I just need the materials to build lamps.
My dream is that my community benefits from solar energy. I made a very big effort to go to India, not only for me, but for the whole community. People come up to me and say, we are so happy that you’re back. Now we will have light!”
Martha Alicia Benavente, 45 years old, is a mother of four children whom she raised alone after her husband passed away. She has recently graduated as a solar engineer from the Barefoot College in India, through the UN Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women implemented by FAO, WFP, IFAD and UN Women in Guatemala, and funded by the Governments of Norway and Sweden. Her story relates to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, on access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; as well as SDG 5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment and SDG 8, which promotes decent work and sustainable economic empowerment for all.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Read more first-person stories of sustainable development challenges and change: www.unwomen.org/en/news/editorial-series/from-where-i-stand
MENNA – meaning ‘from us’, or ‘made by our hands’ in Arabic – is a nation-wide network of over 650 rural and refugee women producers and cooperatives in Lebanon. In 2015, Amel Association International – a grantee of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality – launched its first permanent MENNA shop in Beirut, giving network members a year-round space to sell their handmade goods to the public.
Pictured above, Women’s Cooperative Leader Daed Ismaiel makes a rare, traditional bread called Mallet El Smid to be sold at the MENNA shop in Beirut.
The Mawasem El Dayaa Women’s Cooperative is among the last producers of this signature bread and one of 14 rural women’s cooperatives to benefit from the vocational trainings and market opportunities offered by Amel Association’s MENNA project.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
See More: youtu.be/urs1bepyh1c
Photos from the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) meeting in Barrow, Alaska March 11-12 2016. Read more about SDWG: www.sdwg.org
Photos are available for use according to the creative commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
Photo credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Kseniia Iartceva
Martha Alicia Benavente, from Tucurú, a small municipality in Guatemala trained for six months to become a solar engineer, and she is bursting with energy. She can’t wait to start building solar lamps so that her community can have sustainable energy at last. One solar lamp could sell for up to 200 Quetzals, a lucrative business opportunity for a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field.
In her words:
"There are more than 90 families in this community, none of the homes have access to energy.
Seven months ago, the Mayor of Tucurú selected me to go to the Barefoot College in India to learn solar engineering. I said, give me thirty minutes to think about it, the Mayor said, you have fifteen.
When I got on the airplane and it took off, I screamed! It was my first time, flying over the Pacific Ocean.
I used to be a domestic worker at a professor’s house in Tucurú before joining this programme. My day started at four in the morning. I would wake up early to go to the mill to get the corn for the tortillas for my children. Then I ran to work by 6:30 am. At my employer’s house, I cooked, swept the house, did dishes, showered the children and took them to school… and then ran to pick them up from school in the afternoon. For all this work, I got 500 Quetzals every month. It wasn’t enough to meet all our needs.
The six months I spent in India at the Barefoot College were also not easy. I got sick, and sometimes wondered if it was better to remain a domestic worker. But little by little, I learned everything. I learned how to make solar lamps.
Look at this solar lamp that I made at Barefoot College. Before I had the lamp, I used to spend 5 – 10 Quetzals every day to light candles. Or we would stay in the dark sometimes, because the store wouldn’t give us credit to buy more candles. I had to finish all my chores at home by 7 p.m.
Now, if I have all the materials, I can build a solar lamp in 20 minutes!
Right now, the biggest challenge is how to put into practice what I learned in India and to train more women. There are many mothers here who want to learn and who can benefit…I just need the materials to build lamps.
My dream is that my community benefits from solar energy. I made a very big effort to go to India, not only for me, but for the whole community. People come up to me and say, we are so happy that you’re back. Now we will have light!”
Martha Alicia Benavente, 45 years old, is a mother of four children whom she raised alone after her husband passed away. She has recently graduated as a solar engineer from the Barefoot College in India, through the UN Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women implemented by FAO, WFP, IFAD and UN Women in Guatemala, and funded by the Governments of Norway and Sweden. Her story relates to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, on access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; as well as SDG 5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment and SDG 8, which promotes decent work and sustainable economic empowerment for all.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Read more first-person stories of sustainable development challenges and change: www.unwomen.org/en/news/editorial-series/from-where-i-stand
Martha Alicia Benavente, from Tucurú, a small municipality in Guatemala trained for six months to become a solar engineer, and she is bursting with energy. She can’t wait to start building solar lamps so that her community can have sustainable energy at last. One solar lamp could sell for up to 200 Quetzals, a lucrative business opportunity for a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field.
In her words:
"There are more than 90 families in this community, none of the homes have access to energy.
Seven months ago, the Mayor of Tucurú selected me to go to the Barefoot College in India to learn solar engineering. I said, give me thirty minutes to think about it, the Mayor said, you have fifteen.
When I got on the airplane and it took off, I screamed! It was my first time, flying over the Pacific Ocean.
I used to be a domestic worker at a professor’s house in Tucurú before joining this programme. My day started at four in the morning. I would wake up early to go to the mill to get the corn for the tortillas for my children. Then I ran to work by 6:30 am. At my employer’s house, I cooked, swept the house, did dishes, showered the children and took them to school… and then ran to pick them up from school in the afternoon. For all this work, I got 500 Quetzals every month. It wasn’t enough to meet all our needs.
The six months I spent in India at the Barefoot College were also not easy. I got sick, and sometimes wondered if it was better to remain a domestic worker. But little by little, I learned everything. I learned how to make solar lamps.
Look at this solar lamp that I made at Barefoot College. Before I had the lamp, I used to spend 5 – 10 Quetzals every day to light candles. Or we would stay in the dark sometimes, because the store wouldn’t give us credit to buy more candles. I had to finish all my chores at home by 7 p.m.
Now, if I have all the materials, I can build a solar lamp in 20 minutes!
Right now, the biggest challenge is how to put into practice what I learned in India and to train more women. There are many mothers here who want to learn and who can benefit…I just need the materials to build lamps.
My dream is that my community benefits from solar energy. I made a very big effort to go to India, not only for me, but for the whole community. People come up to me and say, we are so happy that you’re back. Now we will have light!”
Martha Alicia Benavente, 45 years old, is a mother of four children whom she raised alone after her husband passed away. She has recently graduated as a solar engineer from the Barefoot College in India, through the UN Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women implemented by FAO, WFP, IFAD and UN Women in Guatemala, and funded by the Governments of Norway and Sweden. Her story relates to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, on access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; as well as SDG 5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment and SDG 8, which promotes decent work and sustainable economic empowerment for all.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Read more first-person stories of sustainable development challenges and change: www.unwomen.org/en/news/editorial-series/from-where-i-stand
In the Katfoura village on the Tristao Islands in Guinea, the civil society organization Partenariat Recherches Environnement Medias (PREM) is providing rural women with new opportunities to generate income and improve community life.
Through a grant from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, PREM has helped rural women form several cooperatives and taught its members how to plant a vitamin-rich tree called Moringa and how to clean, dry and sell its leaves. Used as medicine or a dietary supplement by societies around the world, Moringa also supports biodiversity and prevents soil erosion.
The cooperatives are made up of local women who come together to share ideas, and they give women an opportunity to build leadership skills, strengthen community bonds, and participate in economic decisions that affect the community.
PREM is one of over 120 civil society organizations that has been awarded a grant by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality since 2009. In the last six years, the Fund for Gender Equality has successfully awarded USD $64 million to grantee programmes in 80 countries. To date, such programmes have reached over 10 million women, girls and boys as direct beneficiaries.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Read more about the Fund for Gender Equality: www.unwomen.org/en/trust-funds/fund-for-gender-equality
Martha Alicia Benavente, from Tucurú, a small municipality in Guatemala trained for six months to become a solar engineer, and she is bursting with energy. She can’t wait to start building solar lamps so that her community can have sustainable energy at last. One solar lamp could sell for up to 200 Quetzals, a lucrative business opportunity for a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field.
In her words:
"There are more than 90 families in this community, none of the homes have access to energy.
Seven months ago, the Mayor of Tucurú selected me to go to the Barefoot College in India to learn solar engineering. I said, give me thirty minutes to think about it, the Mayor said, you have fifteen.
When I got on the airplane and it took off, I screamed! It was my first time, flying over the Pacific Ocean.
I used to be a domestic worker at a professor’s house in Tucurú before joining this programme. My day started at four in the morning. I would wake up early to go to the mill to get the corn for the tortillas for my children. Then I ran to work by 6:30 am. At my employer’s house, I cooked, swept the house, did dishes, showered the children and took them to school… and then ran to pick them up from school in the afternoon. For all this work, I got 500 Quetzals every month. It wasn’t enough to meet all our needs.
The six months I spent in India at the Barefoot College were also not easy. I got sick, and sometimes wondered if it was better to remain a domestic worker. But little by little, I learned everything. I learned how to make solar lamps.
Look at this solar lamp that I made at Barefoot College. Before I had the lamp, I used to spend 5 – 10 Quetzals every day to light candles. Or we would stay in the dark sometimes, because the store wouldn’t give us credit to buy more candles. I had to finish all my chores at home by 7 p.m.
Now, if I have all the materials, I can build a solar lamp in 20 minutes!
Right now, the biggest challenge is how to put into practice what I learned in India and to train more women. There are many mothers here who want to learn and who can benefit…I just need the materials to build lamps.
My dream is that my community benefits from solar energy. I made a very big effort to go to India, not only for me, but for the whole community. People come up to me and say, we are so happy that you’re back. Now we will have light!”
Martha Alicia Benavente, 45 years old, is a mother of four children whom she raised alone after her husband passed away. She has recently graduated as a solar engineer from the Barefoot College in India, through the UN Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women implemented by FAO, WFP, IFAD and UN Women in Guatemala, and funded by the Governments of Norway and Sweden. Her story relates to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, on access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; as well as SDG 5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment and SDG 8, which promotes decent work and sustainable economic empowerment for all.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Read more first-person stories of sustainable development challenges and change: www.unwomen.org/en/news/editorial-series/from-where-i-stand
Heads of State and Government join Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet to sign a Call to Action: The Future Women Want on 21 June 2012 during the Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
From left: Dalia Grybauskaité, President of Lithuania; Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia; Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil; H.E. Ms Michelle Bachelet, UN Women Executive Director, Laura Chinchilla Miranda, President of Costa Rica; Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica; Doris Leuthard, former President of the Swiss Federation signing on behalf of President Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf; Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark
Photo Credit: UN Women/Fabricio Barreto
Nahla Sukkari has worked in the making of Fekha carpets for 35 years. “Ever since I started this work, it has provided for my children and me,” she said. “It meant we did not have to rely on anyone. Each piece motivates me to keep improving.”
The wool Nahla uses comes from the Hima community. Hima is an ancient practice used by rural communities in Lebanon to ensure economic cooperation, sustainability and equitable resource management. Rural women have traditionally played key leadership and decision-making roles in the Hima community model.
Today, one conservation-minded organisation – the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) – is reviving the ancient Hima approach to help rural women reassert their traditional leadership roles in community life.
With support from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, SPNL is supporting rural Lebanese women and local municipalities to become partners and champions of the environment by promoting local ownership of sustainable resource management.
See more: youtu.be/vxDWsv6FZks
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
A herder in Tarialan, Uvs Province, Mongolia. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supports community centres for Mongolian herder groups -- many herdsmen now develop their own land-use plans, conservation maps and sustainable practices for water, forest and pasture management.
Photo ID 420728. 28/07/2009. Tarialan. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
Nahla Sukkari has worked in the making of Fekha carpets for 35 years. “Ever since I started this work, it has provided for my children and me,” she said. “It meant we did not have to rely on anyone. Each piece motivates me to keep improving.”
The wool Nahla uses comes from the Hima community. Hima is an ancient practice used by rural communities in Lebanon to ensure economic cooperation, sustainability and equitable resource management. Rural women have traditionally played key leadership and decision-making roles in the Hima community model.
Today, one conservation-minded organisation – the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) – is reviving the ancient Hima approach to help rural women reassert their traditional leadership roles in community life.
With support from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, SPNL is supporting rural Lebanese women and local municipalities to become partners and champions of the environment by promoting local ownership of sustainable resource management.
See more: youtu.be/vxDWsv6FZks
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
This symposium about Sustainable Development has been held ten years ago in a prestigious place of French State.
What have we done since that time ?
Our children are right to kick our ass !
The text says:
"the guys who deforest the Amazon rainforest make a concession for the environment"!
"From now on, they will put unleaded gasoline in their chainsaws!" ...
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Ce colloque sur le développement durable s’est tenu il y a dix ans au Sénat, lieu prestigieux de l’État français.
Qu'avons-nous fait depuis ce temps?
Nos enfants ont raison de nous botter le cul!
Nahla Sukkari has worked in the making of Fekha carpets for 35 years. “Ever since I started this work, it has provided for my children and me,” she said. “It meant we did not have to rely on anyone. Each piece motivates me to keep improving.”
The wool Nahla uses comes from the Hima community. Hima is an ancient practice used by rural communities in Lebanon to ensure economic cooperation, sustainability and equitable resource management. Rural women have traditionally played key leadership and decision-making roles in the Hima community model.
Today, one conservation-minded organisation – the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) – is reviving the ancient Hima approach to help rural women reassert their traditional leadership roles in community life.
With support from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, SPNL is supporting rural Lebanese women and local municipalities to become partners and champions of the environment by promoting local ownership of sustainable resource management.
See more: youtu.be/vxDWsv6FZks
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Najwa Krishk Mortada co-owns a wheat processing shop with her husband. The machines are dangerous and this means they don’t want to employ anybody else. They work alone and trust each other. The work is seasonal - just three months of the year during the harvest. She is happy to have her work close to her house and to work alongside her husband.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
In the Katfoura village on the Tristao Islands in Guinea, the civil society organization Partenariat Recherches Environnement Medias (PREM) is providing rural women with new opportunities to generate income and improve community life.
Through a grant from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, PREM has helped rural women form several cooperatives and taught its members how to plant a vitamin-rich tree called Moringa and how to clean, dry and sell its leaves. Used as medicine or a dietary supplement by societies around the world, Moringa also supports biodiversity and prevents soil erosion.
The cooperatives are made up of local women who come together to share ideas, and they give women an opportunity to build leadership skills, strengthen community bonds, and participate in economic decisions that affect the community.
PREM is one of over 120 civil society organizations that has been awarded a grant by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality since 2009. In the last six years, the Fund for Gender Equality has successfully awarded USD $64 million to grantee programmes in 80 countries. To date, such programmes have reached over 10 million women, girls and boys as direct beneficiaries.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Read more about the Fund for Gender Equality: www.unwomen.org/en/trust-funds/fund-for-gender-equality
Photos from the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) meeting in Barrow, Alaska March 11-12 2016. Read more about SDWG: www.sdwg.org
Photos are available for use according to the creative commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
Photo credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Kseniia Iartceva
Photos from the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) meeting in Barrow, Alaska March 11-12 2016. Read more about SDWG: www.sdwg.org
Photos are available for use according to the creative commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
Photo credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Kseniia Iartceva
MENNA – meaning ‘from us’, or ‘made by our hands’ in Arabic – is a nation-wide network of over 650 rural and refugee women producers and cooperatives in Lebanon. In 2015, Amel Association International – a grantee of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality – launched its first permanent MENNA shop in Beirut, giving network members a year-round space to sell their handmade goods to the public.
Pictured above, Women’s Cooperative Leader Daed Ismaiel makes a rare, traditional bread called Mallet El Smid to be sold at the MENNA shop in Beirut.
The Mawasem El Dayaa Women’s Cooperative is among the last producers of this signature bread and one of 14 rural women’s cooperatives to benefit from the vocational trainings and market opportunities offered by Amel Association’s MENNA project.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
See More: youtu.be/urs1bepyh1c
Lebanon, 2015.
Portrait of clothing designer Lara Khoury in her studio in Beirut. Lebanon emerged from a 15-year civil war in 1990, beginning its slow but steady recovery. Today it is considered an upper-middle-income country, but economic gains are inequitably distributed among social groups and skewed towards urban areas.
Photo: UN Women/ Joe Saade
Read More about Supporting Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Fragile States: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2016/3/su...
Photos from the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) meeting in Barrow, Alaska March 11-12 2016. Read more about SDWG: www.sdwg.org
Photos are available for use according to the creative commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
Photo credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Kseniia Iartceva
Photos from the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) meeting in Barrow, Alaska March 11-12 2016. Read more about SDWG: www.sdwg.org
Photos are available for use according to the creative commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
Photo credit: Arctic Council Secretariat / Kseniia Iartceva
Lebanon, 2015.
Portrait of taxi driver Rosy Khalil. After studying hotel management, Rosy had a hard time finding a job. One day her husband, a driver, was sick and asked her to drive a client. She did it, and on her way back got several more clients. She liked the fact that she could earn money this way, so she stuck with it. When some people see her working as a taxi driver they ask her if she is a widow or if her husband has left her. “You meet many people during the day and you never know who can do you harm, like stealing money or hurting you physically,” she says, so she limits her work to daylight hours and has learned to deal with people. Despite these issues, Rosy plans to make a long career out of driving.
Photo: UN Women/ Joe Saade
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Women weather the microburst in Ber'aano Woreda in Somali region of Ethiopia 12 February 2014. The village is the first village declared ODF (Open Defecation Free) and All but one household has a latrine. While flags fly over each latrine. In Somali Region water supply coverage is estimated at 59.7%, lower than the national average of 68.5%. The need for water supply normally increases in the dry season, especially at the time of drought such as in recent years. However, the technical and organizational capacity of the Somali Regional State Water Resources Development Bureau (SRWDB) the government agency responsible for water supply and facilities management in the region to satisfy the water supply need is not adequate to cope with the situation. Donor agencies and NGOs are making efforts to ameliorate the situation by constructing and repairing water supply facilities across the region, supplying water by water trucks during chronic shortages, but the supply is still significantly below the demand.