TRAINING ON CLIMATE CHANGE FOR MEDIA AND NGOS
On
20 November 2007 UNDP Azerbaijan together with the experts of the Azerbaijan
Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources and the Social - Ecology Centre
"EcoSphere" (the chief of NGO "EcoSphere" is Firusa Sultan-zade)
organized a one day training for journalists and Azeri NGO representatives on
global climate change.
This training as a part of the National
Climate Change Program aimed at informing the representatives of mass media and
NGOs about the currently much discussed topic and to foster the collaboration
between media and science. Experts from "EcoSphere" and scientists held
presentations on the following topics: "Information on the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change and the project on the Second National Report of
Azerbaijan", "Global climate change in a modern, dynamic world", "The Kyoto
Protocol", "Global climate change scenarios", "Climate change: desertification
and agriculture", "Climate change impacts on water resources", "Climate change:
Human health and social impacts" and "How collaboration between professional
scientists and mass media may work effectively".
The
thirty participants showed much interest and took the chance to discuss their
questions on climate change with the experts, scientists and researchers.
The
participants showed interest to the
gender aspects of climate
change. Gender equality is a critical component of responses to climate change
at all levels - rather than isolating gender equality from other core
development issues, it should be integrated in all aspects of climate change
planning and decision-making, national and global politics should incorporate
the gender aspects of climate change, guided by the many global agreements on
gender mainstreaming and human rights treaties such as the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. This will require
improved international environmental governance structures, cohesion between UN
agencies, as well as tools such as gender-specific indicators to guide national
reporting to the UNFCCC.
The presentation and further material on
climate change were given to the participants in a printed version and on
CD-Rom.
Own inform. www gender-az.org
AGIC promotes creating the history of civil society and those initiations by studying womanవblic activity in the end of XIX - the beginning of XX centuries. The collection of the visual evidences and oral reminiscences allows not only to recalled the events, become utterly absorbed in the atmosphere that reigned at that time but also to comprehend, understand how and what efforts were demanded for establishing of Caucasus womenghts. The information collected here will serve also as a supporting material for teachers, historians and researchers working in the sphere of womand gender problems. They will get an opportunity of using these unique documents as historical references, visual and oral evidences.
In Azerbaijan by initiative of the President Ilham Aliev in accordance with Presidential Decree dated by 6 of February 2006 State Committee on Family, Women and Children issues has been established. Chairwoman of the Committee is Mrs. Khidjran Guseynova. She is the professor of the Baku State University and the first woman- the doctor of political sciences in Azerbaijan