Background:
In September 2023, the 5th International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) in Bonn, Germany, adopted the new Global Framework for Chemicals (GFC, formerly SAICM), which includes gender equality as a principle of the new framework. In addition, a resolution entitled “Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective and Promoting Gender Equality and Empowerment of All Women and Girls in Chemicals and Waste Management” was adopted which requests the Secretariat, with the participation of interested stakeholders, to develop a gender action plan for consideration by the Conference at its next session to advance towards full, equal and meaningful participation by all women in decision-making, and to promote gender-responsive policies and mainstreaming a gender perspective in the implementation of the framework.
Objectives:
In this webinar, speakers presented SAICM’s gender activities to date, provided examples of Gender Action Plans in other international environmental policy processes, and discussed with participants first ideas for the structure and activities of a future Gender Action plan for the Global Framework on Chemicals.
The webinar was hosted by Mexico and the MSP Institute on 23 November 2023. More information on gender and chemicals is available at: http://gender-chemicals.org/
Um hello and a very warm welcome to our webinar agenda action plan for the new Global framework on chemicals my name is mmati and I’m happy to be moderating this webinar today for you I’m a co-founder and Associate of the MSP Institute multi-stakeholder processes for sustainable development the MSP
Institute is a small charitable Association based in Berlin Germany and we’re dedicated to supporting high quality dialogue and collaboration among stat stakeholders stakeholder participation and good governance and for us this has a lot to do with gender as well we’ve been working on gender and chemical since 2017 with support from
The German Federal environment Ministry uh and we’ve been active in the syum process now the new Global framework on chemicals um since 2017 we’re very happy to be uh organizing and co-hosting this webinar together with Maria oena Gonzalez an annaya from Mexico who will also be speaking today so as a co-hosted event
In September the fifth International Conference on chemicals management iccm 5 convened in Born Germany and adopted the new Global framework on chemicals GFC formerly Saum which now includes gender equality as a principle of the new framework in addition a genda resolution was adopted which requests the secretary with the participation of interested
Stakeholders to develop a gender action plan for consideration by the conference as it at its next session the sixth session in 2026 to advance towards full equal and meaningful participation by all women in decisionmaking and to promote gender responsive policies and mainstreaming a gender perspective in the implementation
Of the framework we are very happy about these historic steps to towards gender responsive chemicals management and want to use the momentum of such significant support for gender issues to discuss the next steps and the implementation of these decisions in this webinar today speakers will present the iccm 5 decisions on
Gender and Sim’s previous uh Frameworks gender activities to date provide examples of gender action plans in other International Environmental Policy processes and discuss with you uh with you all the first ideas for the structure and activities elements of a future agender action plan for the global framework on chemicals you’ve noticed probably that
This webinar is being recorded and it will be posted online uh on our web page and our YouTube channel if you don’t want to be seen in the video please make sure you turn off your camera otherwise we appreciate it if you have your camera
On and we have a bit of a feel of being together in this virtual room we will send you the link to the recording uh in the coming days and this is the agenda uh of our webinar we do have a broad and mixed audience today as I said thanks to all
Our friends and partners who have forwarded the invitation to their various networks um and we have including col colleagues who may not be familiar with gender and chemicals issues uh or the UN processes on chemic calls and that’s why we’re going to start with a very brief introduction on
The context of this webinar by my colleague Anna H house in a minute then we welcome a first presentation by Pier Kier from the GFC Secretariat on the outcomes of the recent 5ifth International Conference on chemical management and on the gender activities under the previous cycle we will then he
Sasha gabiso from women engaged for a common future who will introduce gender action plans in other Environmental Policy processes for us to learn from and the third presentation will be held uh by our co-host uh Maria Aria Gonzalez Anaya from Mexico she will talk about the iccm 5 resolution on gender and what
It is saying in detail on a future genda action plan for the new framework we’ll hear these three presentations and then have some time for Q&A with you all uh and before we close today we want to brainstorm with you all a little bit about this future
Gender action plan and what it could look like and we’ll use a virtual your board for that purpose for you to leave your notes and questions and comments that will be enriching the discussion so with that let’s get started over to my colleague Anna for a very over brief
Overview of the context of this webinar over to you Anna thank you very much moo um yes to set the context of this webinar I will very briefly introduce you to the linkages of gender and chemicals and the current uh chemicals policy processes at the international level so we at the MSP
Institute distinguish between three M main Dimensions why gender and chemicals matters first biological impacts because women’s and men’s bodies are affected differently by certain chemicals and so exposure risk and impacts can be different between the Sexes secondly chemical exposure is also influenced by various social gender aspects and women
And men are affected differently um because of their gender roles in society especially due to the division of labor and so men are for example more likely to work in construction and thus come into contact with chemicals from building materials while on the other hand women are more likely to work in
The care sector um and in contact with cleaning or care products and in addition due to gender roles women and men tend to use different chemical products and third um is the potential of the gender analysis the gender perspective allows us to understand the causes of unsustainable behavior in dealing with chemicals and
Helps us to find new solutions for more effective and sustainable chemic management for example personal protective equipment is often designed for the Western Main body and simply doesn’t fit women well and properly and gender roles of masculinity on the other hand hinders women to take um protective measures and taking these
Gender aspects into account can increase safety when handling with chemicals and these interlinkages of G and chemicals also get increasingly more attention at the international chemicals policy level here you can see an overview slide of the current relevant policy processes and our Focus today is on the new Global framework on chemicals
Which has just been adopted at the iccm 5 conference as the previous framework cycle which was adopted in 2006 expired in 2020 and this new framework is a voluntary platform with a broad scope um yeah especially life cycle of almost all chemicals including products and waste in addition the GFC also deals with
Capacity building financing and issues of concern and we will hear more about that from Pierre later and the secm 5 conference also adopted a resolution on gender we will hear more about it from Maria which includes the development of a genda action plan to be ad at the next
Conference the iccm 6 then there are several legally binding conventions dealing with yeah specific chemicals or specific um issues of chemicals management the basa Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions and the minamata convention specialized on Mercury and the B conventions have a gender action plan since 2013 and it was
Updated this year and we will hear more about that from Sasha and the manamata convention has a brand new uh gender action plan adopted this year at the beginning of November in addition two new political institutions for international chemicals policy are currently being negotiated one is the plastic treaty a legally binding
Agreement planned for 2024 which is intended to deal with the entire life cycle of plastics and the second is the new science policy panel an advisory body similar to the ipcc on climate change or EPB on biodiversity and it is planned for the end of 2024 and aims to provide
Scientific expertise and advice to political decision makers on chemicals uh waste and pollution and in both processes the women’s major group is actively involved and UC advocating for the integration of gender equality yeah I hope this gives a very brief overview and with that I hand over to
Moo thank you thank you very much Anna for this brief overview and uh by the way we will make sure that we share uh the presentation uh and including this table which might be of interest for some when we send along the link to the recording of this uh webinar as well now
I’m wondering if we have Pier here if not um I know that deina will step in to give his presentation um deina what do you what do you think yes of course can you see me yes we can see you now deina um you will talk about uh the the iccm 5 uh
Results and the gender aspects and also what this the previously pchum Secretariat called pchum Secretariat did on gender already what I don’t have is a proper picture of you and a good introduction about you I just know that you’re a lovely colleague uh at the psych or GFC Secretariat and I know that
You were uh um that you were a very successful Sports person too but if I may ask you to maybe in in a sentence or to introduce yourself before you take over uh Pierre’s presentation that would be very kind over to you deina great thank you minu okay so yes I’ll do a
Brief introduction of myself and then I’ll I’ll deliver the presentation and can glad ly answer any questions once we’re done with the the initial part of the agenda my name is Delina Klan I work for the I’ve worked for the syum Secretariat since 2019 in many different roles I’m
Currently working with the GFC and its transition H my main role in the Secretariat was the project management of the pchum just project on emerging policy issues where many of these gender activities have been taking place H and at the same time I’m also the gender focal point for the branch the
Chemicals and health branch in unip um so yeah that’s kind of a little bit of my background I also do many other things but I believe those are the main relevant for the webinar today and so with that in mind I will quickly deliver the the presentation and Anna if it’s
Okay I’ll tell you when to pass the slide because I don’t have control I hope that’s okay with you and okay so as Anna mentioned the global framer on chemicals appended free of harm from chemicals and waste was adopted in September during iccm 5 can you please put the next slide thank
You ER this is just a snapshot of some of the media Outlets that came out communicating the news of the new framework next slide please and okay there we go and then okay so very briefly on the on the framework an already explained but the framework has three parts of it it’s a
Global framework on chemicals ER and then the bond declaration with that EO the collective commitment and the share goal of a planet ER devoided of the adverse impacts of chemicals and waste and then the global framework on chemicals fund and a set of resolutions dedicated to implementing the trans the the transform
The transformative framework so we can divide the framework into three sections or the outcomes of the of iccm 5 next slide please um the framework covers the life cycle of chemicals including in in products and waste and it promotes initiatives to enhance the sound management of chemicals and waste and takes also due
Account of the of other chemicals and waste inrs and meas that have been developed to date H and it is flexible enough to take into account that other new instruments that might come in play coming the the coming years next slide please the instrument the framework is divided into five strategic objectives
The first objective speaks about legal Frameworks institutional mechanisms and capacities H that should be taking place the second objective speaks about comprehensive and sufficient knowledge and that and information that are generated and most importantly available and accessible the third um objective speaks about issues of concern um that and
Those should be identified PR prioritized and um addressed the fourth objective speaks about safe alternative and Innovative and Sustainable Solutions specifically um dedicated to products in value chains and the last objective ER talks about enhancing of implementation ER and effective resource mobilization including through partnership cooperation as well as capacity
Building um next slide please so within the framework and under each of the Strategic objectives we have 28 agreed targets ER that need to be achieved between some of them in 2030 and some of them by 2035 ER these targets shape wave from shaping legal Frameworks and enhancing institutional mechanisms to Foster Savor
And alter Alternatives and innovative Solutions Within products value chains here are a few examples of the targets that are relevant um in general I think those are the the ones that I could say are the most Innovative and the most interesting in relation to the work the
New work that will be H will be happening within the Secretariat um but I wanted to next slide please also speak about the gender replic implications and gender mentions in the GFC so GFC recognizes the risk that chemicals and waste POs to vulnerable groups such as children women and Indigenous
Communities and it emphasizes the protective measures tailored to these populations in its core framework text in its principles and approaches the framework underlines gender equality uh as a critical aspect for its implementation and advocates for women’s full and equal participation and leadership in the in all related decision making processes which is um
Great news to have it there in the principles and approaches ER we also have a Target Target B5 which focuses on developing educational programs that are sensitive to gender specific needs and roles in chemical safety additionally there is an activity in the program of work for the
Secretariat that goes from 2024 to 2026 that H calls for the development of a gender action plan in line with resolution 54 and 104 sorry and 54 yeah and report to the next conference which is still TBC but it it probably would happen in 2025 or 2026 and then in
Pursuant of this decision the secretaria will develop and coordinate a participatory process to develop a gender action plan to be submitted for consideration on the next conference so there’s um some actionable actionable items within our program of work that will be directly devoted to um the the development of this gender action plan
The details will be sorted out in as time passes but that is within our program of work and that’s um yeah that’s a great way forward in terms of of of moving in in in this um in this direction and then finally there’s also a resolution ER talking about Main
Streaming a gender perspectives on promoting gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in chemicals and waste management which intends to support the Secretariat in its efforts to mainstream gender in all activities to be undertaken by the SEC by us Secretariat and by importantly all of the GFC
Stakeholders um this will be further spoken by um marioa so I’ll leave it at that and but yeah the G there’s four main parts of the GFC outcomes that H GFC outcomes that will that are directly speaking about gender or speaking to gender H so next slide please so
Recalling the second previous work on gender ER well initially it’s important to state that the incorporation of gender considerations into meas and environmental agreements including Basel rdam Stockholm in namata have also always been uh increasingly priority for unep so that has been something that we have been rolling out for many years
Within the Secretariat and and working internally within unip to incorporate all of this gender considerations ER within the sykim Secretariat and its activities ER we also came we did a partnership between unip and the international pollutant elimination Network or also known as ipen to work on gender and chemicals in
Particular on raising awareness promoting women’s engagement and leadership in decision-making processes and as well as continuing to activities related specifically to the psych emerging policy issues and the sdgs H with this in mind we we did two main Publications also in partnership with ipen and as part of the syy and
Jeff project on global best practices on emerging policy issues the first publication was in 2020 and it was a gender review across the current epis and other issues of concern and the second public publication was also by published by ipen in 2022 and showcase women leader stories working at
Different levels to strengthen Pro protections against harmful chemicals and the publications of these two reports were followed by the organization of webinars to discuss further uh on follow and followup actions so those ones were Al were also um were also organized and we actually had a quite nice um turnout which means
That the Publications were very welcomed and and found useful um and additionally the project also established four communities of practice and one of them being on chemicals and sdgs Within These H discussions in the communities of practice multiple sessions since 2020 discussed issues related to gender and the self management of chemicals and
Waste as well as gender specific considerations related to H to epis so we did some work uh in within second regarding gender but next slide please ER if I could mainly ER go into a little bit of uh lessons learned that that we came up after doing all of
These um activities is that the inclusive of gender consideration in project development is of extreme importance and the importance to collect and develop gender disaggregated data for policymaking is also something that needs to keep going and moving and the importance also of continuous monitoring and evaluation to be able to adapt and
Refine the gender mainstreaming strategies so those I could say are the main points that that were learned from our our previous previous work with gender and then with this in mind uh there are future opportunities for gender mainstreaming within the GFC we have the opportunity to develop a gender action
Plan that aligns with the with the resolution and also integrates measur and and also integrates me measurable goals for gender equality and chemical management ER also the GFC opens a possibility for capacity building that brings opportunities to develop and Implement gender responsive educational training and public awaring programs by
2030 which is speaking directly to Target B5 and um also allows for the possibility to enhance woman’s knowledge and leadership in chemical safety and sustainability and finally there is an opportunity to further enhance collaboration with meas Secretariat and un entities like un woman ER unhcr to Foster gender equality within the framework’s implementation
And to also impulse stakeholders to detail gender their mainstreaming efforts in their reporting to promote transparency and accountability so with this in mind um I would like to conclude my presentation now ER I think that the snapshat of what the information I’ve given provides an
Overview of what is to come but I also think there’s a lot of work that needs to start happening ER we need to get in the ground and enrolling in order to be able to H Advance with these activities and yeah and and really start working on on
What was said in GFC and not lose the momentum so thank you very much for the Pres for the time to present thank you thank you very much deina for this overview of what’s come out of the iccm 5 uh what’s been done before and also the lessons learned and
Then in the in the end the future uh work which is quite a bit but it’s also opportunities of course for everybody to engage this is the multi-stakeholder multi sectoral process thanks very much for spontaneously stepping in to do the presentation that’s a very cool feat uh
Thanks very much and I see Pier that you’ve been able to join welcome to Pierre as well and we’ll have a Q&A um later on after the presentations and P if you can stay then maybe defina and you we you can both answer questions so thanks again deina for stepping in cool
Team in Geneva um I’d like to uh go to the next speaker um our next speaker is Sasha gabizo and you’re sharing your screen in a second yourself Sasha Sasha is the international director of women engaged for common future and ecofeminist network working in 50 countries on gender just sustainable development for
Wef Sasha Co organized the women’s major group at the UN for many years and helped the creation of the women and gender constit constituencies in other un conventions such as the CH on chemicals and waste the BRS conventions and on climate change in the UN fccc process currently Sasha is focusing on
Wcf’s programs on strengthening ecofeminist movements gender transformative climate Finance feminist foreign policy and gender dimensions of chemicals and waste and plastic waste welcome Sasha you’ve been working for decades in international Environmental Policy processes where gender action plans are used as Central instruments for gender mainstreaming we’re happy to
Have you here and learn more from your experiences with gender action plans Sasha over to you thank you very much minu I hope you can all hear hear me well thank you also Maru and Anna and um before I start I just want to honor the fact that we have
A lot of fantastic experts on gender and chemicals and environmental issues on our call uh yeah I see Ava Helen Janet um many many many of you who are here tripy of course Nita so really looking forward also to the discussion with you because I think all of you have a lot of
Experience but um I have been specifically asked to uh share some lessons learned and um yeah some Reflections on what we know and have learned from other processes multilateral processes multilateral environmental processes specifically on gender action policies and plans so I’ll do that in the coming 10 minutes and if
I go over time um please let me know Anna great so I wanted to share with you some lessons from the global environment fund I don’t know if we have anyone on the call here with us from the global environment fund um if yes then please let us know the
Climate conventions the Paris agreement the convention on biodiversity the green climate fund which goes with the climate convention the adaptation fund which goes with the climate convention and last but not least the basa and rdam and Stockholm conventions um let me start with the global environment fund because um we
Had a really interesting presentation at the last BRS cops um by Verona Coles who leads the gender work there now um and she explains why is is so important to of course have first of all an overall gender policy uh which sets the stage yeah so if you look at their policy it
Really um aims at um yeah having gender responsive approaches for all the projects they fund where they see women and feminist organizations not only as beneficiaries but also also as partners as possible implementing Partners um and also that the the policy wants to address barriers underly barriers and
That they set binding minimum criteria for gender equality in Project design and that all projects 100% need to have a gender analysis or assessment if not they cannot be funded um but also that internally in their own organization they are doing a lot of work on strengthening leadership um on gender equality
Um have gender Specialists have specific experts and also that they want to be able to support um implementing agencies member states um but also engage with experts from Civil Society um on the gender equality dimensions of the projects which different and I’ll just give one example which I do like this yes which
Was mentioned by Verona which is their Islands program uh which has a specific own gender equality action plan it has um uh capacity building and training so education so also similar to what we would like to do with the global framework on chemicals um and it has created community of practitioners where
Implementing gender equality in their program on sustainable low and non-chemical development in small island States so these are really interesting examples I think we can already look at when we think about developing a gender action plan for the global framework on chemicals now on the unfccc we have been working the last
Three years already on the implementation of the second gender action plan so we have already quite some experience with the gender action plan of the unfccc uh this one has um the following five key areas priority areas on capacity building on gender balance in the negotiations in the delegations uh
But also on for example bodies and Boards um on coherence between um the different parts of the the convention on gender equality um and very much also on how then to implement gender responsively at the the the convention at National level and how to find the funding to do that
Which is meant with means of implementation which includes the funding um and then of of course also how do you report back yeah what are your key indicators and how do member states report on this uh and one interesting thing in the reporting the Secretariat also reports every year on
The on how many women and men are in the delegations and not only how many in are in the delegations but also how much speaking time they take and that is really interesting because it’s a qualitative indicator and it shows that even though we have increased the number
Of uh we have increased the gender balance in the in the delegations there’s still much more time being taken to speak by the male colleagues and by the female colleagues so very interesting lessons we can come back to that in the discussion I also wanted to mention the
Convention on biological diversity uh we have a had a lot of focus on their gender uh work uh the last two years and they have just adopted um as one of the key targets for this legally binding convention under the global biodiversity framework the target 23 which is specifically a standalone Target on
Gender equality which is really really really amazing that we got that um and that um yeah as you can see from the screen looks at the gender responsive approach where all women and girls have equal opportunities and capacities to contribute to the objectives of the convention including recognizing their
Equal rights on access to land and natural resources and their full Equitable meaningful and informed participation and Leadership at all levels of action engagement policy and decision- making related to biodiversity so it’s a wonderful Target and has been a lot of negotiations on that um and
There’s also the target 22 has a very strong gender dimensions and the aim is now to make sure that all the targets from 1 to 23 U have a gender Dimension and an indicator key indicators to measure them and it also agreed to a gender action plan and I wanted to highlight a
Few points which I really like from the biodiversity gender action plan is that for example they want to ensure meaningful and effective engagement and empowerment of women and girls from indigenous peoples and local communities that’s very strongly um in that gender action plan but also what I really like
Is that they say that they recognize the structural barrier barers and power imbalances that hamper inclusiveness and that hamper therefore also the implementation of the gender action plan itself and that we need to address these power imbalances uh and that therefore we need to take an intersectional approach where
We prioritize prioritize the needs and interests of all women and girls uh in particular those who are already facing multiple forms of discrimination so I think we should learn from that for our plans for the global framework on chemicals we need to have an intersectional approach we need to
Understand that we are um that we are working with um women and girls and non-binary persons who are facing multiple forms of discrimination because of class race sexuality ability age gender ethnicity education and culture so that approach I think and to highlight that in our gender action plan is very
Important um also what is interesting on the uh convention for biodiversity they like the one on uh climate it has this Annex with sets very clearly objectives actions deliverables timelines but also who should do that um and for the convention on biodiversity they have three main outcome areas uh for example
The first one is on having all women and girls having opportunities and capacity to contribute and then within that objective they have indicative actions like for example supporting women’s organizations and networks to have equal opportunities to lead and participate in decision making around the convention um related to land and water land tenure
Property reforms uh amongst others of consultations and in accordance with national law that’s always added by some of the member states we don’t like that very much but what we do like like and the provision of financial support because that’s often where we have the problems is that we have a great gender
Action plan but then we don’t have the access to funding to implement the planned actions of that gender action plan um now some of the conventions have their own financing mechanisms like the climate convention has its has the green climate fund the GCF that sounds very
Similar to the GFC but it’s not the same it’s the GCF so the green climate fund um and here it is mandatory that all accredited entities who are going to implement the climate projects which are funded by the green climate fund all accredited entities must undertake mandatory gender assessments and develop
A gender level gender action plan for their projects including a gender budget so the gender budgeting aspect is really important and Manana I see your hand up and we are going to have a discussion so we’ll get back to you very soon and great to see
You by the way um but so I think that’s really good there’s this you know mandatory aspect on the on the gender assessment there’s a mandatory aspect to have a budget for the implementation on the gender activities and there is also responsibility for gender audits of the
Project now despite that um we still know that we are really not doing well enough even for the GCF we see that the design of the project is gender responsive but often the implementation really is not gender responsive enough so we have lessons to learn there as
Well now the adaptation fund um also has mandatory gender um demands and it has developed some really interesting tools like gender scorecards guide gender guidance sheets and a genda Advisory Group so again we can learn from that now I’m almost over my 10 minutes I am
Over my 10 minutes but I’ve have only two slides left the BRS conventions we have um there also a genda action plan which needs to be renewed uh but there has been a lot of really interesting work because there was a lot of lack of understanding what the gender dimensions
Are of chemicals and waste because it’s often such a technical topic so one of the things which has been done um with support from the Secretariat and from Sweden is to do scoping studies case studies understand in specific situations what are um the gender dimensions for example we have been
Working on several of them including the last ones done in Kenya and Tunisia and they also include documentary uh films to really show what does this mean for example for women and men and children who are waste Pickers informal waste Pickers um how are they being affected
By um pollution from chemicals and from waste and what type of policies do you need to address these specific um vulnerabilities and challenges we see so these are um some of the really as I say excellent examples which many of you have been working on for already decades to get
These mechanisms to get these policies to get these gender action plans to get these case studies to propose better policies but still we are not where we want to be we have many challenges and I two I want to mention one is inde the finance aspect for
Example for the climate ones we have created for each National delegation specific focal points the gender and climate focal points but they are not funded it’s almost impossible for them to get funding some are paying from their own Pockets their participations in the negotiation ations on climate
That of course does not work so that’s one that’s the funding and I think the other one is the indicators so for example for the convention on biodiversity there’s a ongoing negotiation how to formulate the indicators and currently there is a proposed to have simplified indicators
Where you only have to take yes or no as a government reporting have you involved women in your project design yes or no and of course that’s not enough we need much more Quantified gender disaggregated data so I’ll stop here and I look forward to the discussion thank you thank you very much
Sasha for this overview and sharing a load of knowledge in very brief time thank you very much Sasha um one thing that that struck me for sure we are building on the S shoulders of giants as we go into developing a genda action plan for the for the new Global
Framework uh on chemicals and there’s so much that that can be built on including the lessons learned that you mentioned and the challenges that are surely going to be similar uh in this in this new framework thanks very much Sasha our next speaker is Maria Oria Gonzalez Anaya welcome Maria she’s the first
Secretary for environment at the permanent mission of Mexico to the UN office in Geneva with over 17 years of professional experience in various sectors including government non-government organizations and Consulting Maria or Maru for her friends was instrumental in initiating the gender resolution for iccm 5 and introduced and
Negotiated it at iccm 5 so she’s probably the person who knows the gender resolution best in all its details and will now introduce it to us thanks very much for co-organizing and co-hosting this event today uh with us Marvel um and thanks for all your hard and
Successful work on this topic you have the floor thank you thank you so much minu and uh for this presentation and of course uh thanking MSP uh Institute uh minu and Anna for inviting Mexico to co-host this conversation uh for me also it’s an honor to to share this space with my
Fellow panelists Sasha and and um sorry um Mar I’m sorry that iina Delina sorry Delina to share this experience related to all the resolution on gender and chemicals which was discussed uh during the fifth H International Conference on chemicals management uh one month ago a few months
Ago uh next slide please um well before I start sharing all the results uh of the negotiation during I CCM 5 uh I I want to to express our sincere appreciation to MSP Institute and all Civil Society organizations H intergovernmental organizations unions Academia as well as representative of of
Of their member states that were part of uh a small but collaborative group uh that decided to scale up efforts and draft uh such uh resol ution so this was the first step on constructing this this resolution this was a very small group that start uh talking about it and we
Had several meetings uh few months uh before the the ICM 5 uh meeting and then we decided to to to to start the presentation h of this this resolution among other Regional groups this was a a an approach that we start doing with the grak region as well as the African group
Uh and the EU uh so uh we have uh a very broad uh acceptance of of the Contex of the resolution and so we we we got uh two regions as co-sponsors of the of the resolution and um then uh we we were able to to present the the the the
Resolution during the the first day of the conference in bone um well additional additionally this group uh put all their efforts to integrate the gender perspective not only on the negotiations per se of the resolution but also on the negotiations during during other ER contact groups h on for the ministerial declaration the
Global framework of chemicals so H this negotiation was part of um er the contact group on resolutions the group of friends of the chair and also the the the cow and informal groups as results H we we can say that uh we close uh the loop during the
Negotiations in uh order to have a gender perspective in all documents submitted for discussion during ICM F uh next slide please Delina already uh explained a little bit what were the results of all these documents that we presented during ICM 5 but I I I I would like to to
Arrive or to some of ones because I I’m telling you that I we close the loop because it’s very important that from the ministerial declaration to the resolution H we have the gender perspective uh cover for the next steps that are very important to start working on so H the ministerial declaration
Recognizes the impact of of chemicals uh on on different groups and chemicals of often have impacts on human health particularly on women and children and this is very important gender equality can support the sound management of chemicals and waste this is a very important part of the ministerial
Declaration and uh we were able to to negotiate uh it was a very difficult negotiation in in the friends of the chair Group H but we we were uh able to introduce this text on the Declaration then uh we also have uh good results on the global framework on
Chemicals we can say that the the gender perspective was introduced h on principles and also we were able to have a few targets and also mentions of the perspective on the annex B of the global framework on chemicals so on principles um we we were able to
Introduce text so wom are agent agents of change and are essential to addressing the issue of chemicals and waste the framework advances gender equality through their full and equal participation and gender inclusive approaches in all aspects of the implementation of the framework including in decision making this is
Very important so this principle H has to apply for all the implementation of the framework so the gender H inclusive approach has to be taken into account on all the implementation of the new Global framework of chemicals then we have a specific targets as uh you mentioned before the target B5 uh so
Is related to education training and public awareness uh programs which so er must H take in consideration a gender perspective approach and also Target B7 H which relates to to to ER have a monitoring and survive data and information H disaggregated by sex uh so this was a very important introduce uh
Int element to have uh disaggregated data in the global framework on chemicals and finally the anex B contains H all the Declaration resolution instruments guidelines and multilateral agreements the related to the gender perspective so among the the instruments that are mentioned in this Annex we can find the Beijing
Declaration and platform for Action the United Nations Declaration on on the rights of a of indigenous peoples and also the general assembly resolution on the human right to a clean healthy and sustainable environment and then finally uh ER some points uh very important on the
Resolution uh I I have to say that after uh the first lecture h of the resolution in the in the contact group of of the resolution this was a contact group that had uh to review 20 resolutions and I’m very very proud to to tell you that the gender resolution
Was the first resolution that was approved in the contact group uh in the second lecture um while this this was um a very productive um a conversation ER with with some delegations we heard some of their views their concerns so we were able to to to accommodate their concerns and their
Views we presented a new a new uh second review of the resolution and I think uh that the the the results and the the the content of of the objectives of the resolution are pretty much H what we were looking for H first of all H to
Request the Secretariat to to with the participation of of interested stakeholders to develop a gender action plan uh so this gender action plan uh has to be put into in consideration by the conference in the next session uh this is this ER this was the most important uh part of the
Resolution uh the second one is that H the resolution encourages all the stakeholders to support interim actions towards the goals mentioned in in in the in the in the in in mainstreaming gender perspective uh so um this could include uh the development of national gender action plans and other actions to
Promote gender equality and to create H conditions for all women and girls to empower the SS in chemicals and waste management and here this is also very important because these interim actions also include uh the creation of multi-stakeholder Partnerships like the the partnership of gender and chemicals that was just uh
Launched in during the iccm 5 and also the promotion of of uh and the incorporation of gender specific tools gender disaggregated data collection methods and research to better understand the links between gender chemicals and waste uh and also the resolution contemplates that the Secretariat has to to Foster collaboration H with other multilateral
Environmental agreements and relevant United Nation agencies and programs including including un wom and the office of the High Commissioner for human rights and all uh other relevant Partners in the field of gend their quality ER in relation to the implementation of the global framework on chemicals and finally H the the last
Objective ER of the resolution is that invites all stakeholders to include information on the progress made in mainstreaming a gender perspective in their reports to the conference that means that H meanwhile the H gender action plan is approved in the next conference the all the stakeholders are
Able to to to make some progress in even uh mainstreaming gender or doing their their National national action plans h among other activities so the the Secretariat can can H take all the information from from from them um the next slide I think this is the last one
But well I I think just as reflection I would I would like to to say that this is um this H early exercise of discussions deliberations around the the CRP the resolution that we as a group presented to to the to the ICM 5 is a great example and a lesson learned that
We should replicate in future negotiations not only ER the the ones that are related to to the the chemicals uh that cluster that we we are most familiar with uh but also with the with the implementation and the the elaboration of the of the gender action
Plans that we have ahead and uh it’s a good way to collaborate also with the Secretariat and uh with all other uh multi-stakeholders so with this I I close my speech and remain open to to any questions you you may have to related to these negotiations thank you
Min thank you thank you very much Mar for this presentation I’m giving that overview and as you said you know to to just explain how this sits together and how a loop was was closed uh and I also must say that uh the exercise of preparing this together and then um
Having it uh the first one to be past was was exhilarating I might also say that when Maro introduced the the resolution on the first day uh in plenary it was the only introduction of a CRP that received Applause uh which was very uplifting uh to hear and and
See so it’s it it seemed to me that there was a lot of a lot of positive and collaborative energy lot of these issues if may I jump in uh this something that is very uh president was that this resolution ER obtained the co-sponsoring of two Regional groups and this uh
Something that any any H project or any CRP and other multilateral negotiations uh has been possible to to obtain so H this is a very a good good um predent and I’m very glad that that all this group was able to to to get that that uh
Achievement thank you yes indeed uh and I think it was primarily your Outreach that delivered that so thank you very much um i’ would like to open uh for questions and and comments and we could take maybe 10 minutes or maybe a little more uh to answer questions that
Colleagues might have and comments that you would like to make um if you do have a question for a particular panelist let us know um you can use the chat to uh pose questions or make comments but you can also raise your hand and we have a colleague Manana you’ve been raising
Your hand for a while thank you very much and I certainly take you first uh if you want to introduce yourself and uh go ahead please Manana not great come a little closer and try again I’m sorry I can’t uh I can’t hear you could you kindly type in the chat what
You would like to say or ask that would be great because it’s a little garbled thank you Manana okay um I would uh look at the chat for questions and comments and if you want to raise your hands uh please go ahead and and do so there’s a thank you from
Sherica uh thank you for this um then if I was asking could you tell are are there some leading countries or giving good examples are there countries that are moving ahead uh or maybe regions or sub regions where you would say um they are leading in terms of developing and
Implementing gender action plans or any components of them and uh I do look to Delina to Sasha to Maru also to Pierre if you want to come in at this point a question from Eva from Germany anybody would like to take that one and uh Anna if you could uh stop
Sharing then we can I can easily see everybody thank you thanks so if we have a good example Sasha would you like to share yeah so on on gender and chemicals of course we have the national implementation plans of some of the conventions like Stockholm convention
And we have had already quite a number of countries which have tried to um integrate the gender Dimensions into the national implementation plans um and we have seen some good examples or interesting examples there um also in the case studies we helped do um and of course it helps when countries have
Already a strong gender equality policy like in Kenya for example it’s gender equality is in the Constitution and all Ministries in the implementation of their National plans need to bring in gender dimensions and they also need to make sure they have uh equal numbers or balanced numbers of different genders
Taking decisions so that type of situation also helps already um when you are looking at implementation of and chemical and and waste policies but of course much more needs to be done because I think there is still a lack of data in many cases how um how women and men are differently
Impacted but also how the solutions to to try and you know reduce exposure to harmful chemicals um doesn’t um equally uh benefit women and men uh we see that because a lot of women are often in informal work and therefore are not automatically protected by some of the
Health insurance for example um and also not visible in the in the National statistical data uh that’s one area but also often because of a lack of understanding that there might be biologically different impacts from harmful chemicals um and therefore what is interesting for example is that the
Stockholm convention uh does promote um for example biom monitoring uh in breast milk for example of hasard some of them the pops the persistent organic pollutants so that you can create a data basis which then helps you to understand where do you have specific clusters of high pollution or certain groups of for
Example waste workers which have much higher exposure to harmful chemicals and that you need to take specific policy measures to protect them um so I think there’s still a l a long way to go but we have seen some very interesting examples thanks thank you thank you very
Much Sasha for several uh making several points that are very very important to build on uh because I I I would agree that this examples of how this might work and and where countries have made breakthroughs uh to look at how they achieved that is is extremely important
So that we don’t also uh have to learn the same lessons in in various parts of the world over again I see Maru that you have raised your hand and I’m also looking at the chat uh thank you Manana for the remark sorry that your sound didn’t work but we’ll get you the
Materials um also there’s a question from Tiffany from Nike and uh I don’t want to put you on the spot uh marel but if you’re still there you might actually want to respond because Tiffany is saying from a high level when you look at the manufacturing space where
Chemicals are used to make consumer products how can Brands and the chemical industry support this work so that we can gather or share meaningful data on impact uh chemical exposure has on to human health and the environment uh maybe Mariela you would want to pick that one up but it’s also something I
Think interesting for the Secretariat here is a stakeholder who uh probably has quite a few data uh and access to and uh so the question is how do we how can how can such a stakeholder bring bring that in Tiffany is nodding thank you very much so um if if Mariela has
Unmuted herself so I give you FL and then I probably go to Maru because you had raised your hand Mariela yeah and and thank you Tiffany for for highlighting that um uh we actually had a conversation earlier this week as well around this topic that um zdhc is an
Industry organization so we we do have a lot of stakeholders that are working on the ground actively with their supply chain um and also always gathering information within their supply chain um of uh of how chemicals are used which chemicals are used um uh what the impact
Is of the chemicals how um how the workers are dealing with those chemicals on the ground um and we do think that in uh in line with the research and the data Gathering that we might need to do Under The partnership the fact that there are industry organizations that are already Gathering certain
Information can definitely help um uh uh yeah the implementation of of the work that we want to do so um within uh uh zdhc we are going to invite the brands that are interested to uh not only the brands but also the suppliers um and potential other stakeholders that are
Interested to look at how they can gather data um and Expo and and impact of chemical exposure to human health uh not only um uh in their own Supply chains but potentially thinking along of how in general it could be an example for other Industries as well on how to
GA data um and how our own tools could be uh part of that or not um so to really set up a a plan together to see how we could explore that but I do think indeed that it’s also important to to work with the secretari see what and
That’s one of the things that we discussed as well what meaningful data will be in this case coming out of the industry because we can collect a lot of different data we know that that it’s there and that we’re already doing it um but we might need to look at certain
Additional data as well or uh frame it in a different way so um there will be a followup um and I saw some one or two other brands as well in the call there will definitely be a followup also after talking to uh the Secretariat and to uh
The other partners in the partners ship to see how we could Ben um yeah benefit from the data Gathering um and and the transparency that we have in in part dis fly chain thank you thank you very much Mara also for for sharing that uh perspective
And and what what’s going on in terms of the conversations that you’re having I personally I would say it’s also extremely important to uh to make that part of the process so that as you say you know the data that are needed are actually uh being shared and that
There’s conversation about what is possible and what is necessary and stakeholders engage in that and and and Link that up so that it’s a collaborative effort I do now have on my list uh and then maybe should close it at some point I have Maru then quazi
Then Helen and then Pierre if that’s okay in that order um i’ I’d call on you in that order Maru thank you I just wanted to add uh to Sasha’s intervention uh regarding the the leading countries on on and and examples I I have to say that there are
Countries with a feminist foreign policy and many countries from Latin American region the Caribbean Canada ER EU countries among others that have good samples of of gender responsive policies uh but I want to add that uh we are experiencing also a backlash or from other group of
Countries on this topic and this is very important to mention that we we have to close um groups to to work uh further to to to confir this this these uh interventions uh from this this group of countries and finally also I want to add the importance of Sasha and I think uh
Delina also mention uh the means of implementation the importance of uh of resources to be able to uh to elaborate G gender action plans and to elaborate uh data so this is very important also during the negotiations to to take in into account thank you thank you thank
You very much M for the experience uh also mentioning the backlash that I think we’re all seeing and underlining the the need for the resources it’s all very nice to syn up these things but they need to be it’s an investment uh that is necessary and investment in quality decision making and quality
Implementation um that is that is necessary I see quazi you raised your hand and then I have Helen and Pier quazi yeah uh thank you so much I’m Kazi from Bangladesh actually we are working with the poor people poor women uh and girls but uh it was very interesting
Issue today the the on chemicals uh with gender equality I’m very impressed to hear today’s uh discussion and but my question is do you think that without economic empowerment the gender equality or gender action plan will be possible because uh we are working with the poor people so they need the mean economic
Empowerment otherwise it is difficult to make the gender equality so I just asking my question is is it possible so without economic uh empowerment the gender equality is possible thank you thank you very much Ki I I would um encourage uh subsequent speakers maybe to respond to that question my personal
Uh immediate response would be no and that starts with land rights and education and uh very different conditions that are needed for the informal sector because that’s primarily women um in in order to achieve gender equality but also then to achieve a acceptable situation with regard to chemicals um but I’m
Moderating so I’m calling on Helen um who has the floor thank you very much I’ll blur my background moving house not a good look um thank you all very much for and presentations um I suppose I don’t really engage on the international level Much Anymore due to lack of capacity but
Also um yeah you know a big shout out for more on online participation um but I’m really concerned about the way we approach different types of exposure so it’s very very segregated into you know workplace exposures environmental exposures and consumer exposures and I wonder how can we ensure that the environmental organizations recognize
The gender impacts from workplace exposure and the occupational campaigners need to recognize the environmental impacts as well because there is kind of a triple jeopardy going on in terms of exposure especially for women and those more female so we have exposures in the home in the workplace in The Wider environment throughout the
Supply chain from production to to disposal and I just wonder if anyone had anything um any suggestions how we could push this forward thank you very much thank you very much Helen for this remark and and the question and not to worry about your background uh I give
The floor on to Pier maybe you also would like to respond to some of the questions that have been raised Pier good to see you yes very good to see you can you hear me well yes I suppose thank you um no very good very good discussion
And and thank you for all the good words the good words that have been expressed with regards to the adoption of the new framework which I think offers a unique opportunity to mainstream and to reflect the importance of gender in the uh adequate management of our chemicals in
The future I think that there are some unique opportunities to be seized here and in particular with regards to the implementation programs that have been highlighted within the framework and particularly the shift that this framework is offering from a chemicals by chemicals type of focus to to a much
More strategic one and to try to address the full life cycle of chemicals from its concept to its disposal this is really the challenge that the uh framework is aiming at overcoming and the focus on the industry uh industry and economic sectors is very important in in in
Mobilizing all the knowledge and all the possible Act actions in order to achieve the targets and the Strategic objective of the framework this is very important and as we are going to design how best to address these industry economic sector Focus within its uh programmatic activity your input the gender input
Will be very important which sector needs to be key sectors needs to be mobilized how it is to be mobilized what is the type of knowledge that we will need to uh to gather in order to mobilize this sector what are the best practices this sector can can offer what
Are the National legislations in order to make sure that all this is used in other words that nobody can give its responsibility to the neighbors but every aspect all responsibilities from all the actors are fully recognized and that joint actions can take place and in this exercise the input of gender the
Specificity uh that needs to be recognized the specific exposure all along in designing the product to disposing of the products through its use through its sales through its expert all this I would say women have something to say all along these route and to make sure that this new Focus
That the new framework will offer will be uh addressed uh adequately properly and in a meaningful manner thank you thank you very much Pier as the uh the current head of the Secretariat I think we’re pleased to hear that passionate commitment to the participation uh and and also to working
With the different sectors to make this concrete and successful we feel invited um to be participating thank you very much P um I said in the chat I’m going to close the speakers list after Olga because we wanted to do some brainstorming so first uh Olga over
To you thank you uh thank you very much uh muu and um good afternoon good evening um everyone and thank you very much for great presentations and I’m a co-director of Health environment Justice support and we also work a lot on gender issues so um I heard very interesting Reflections
Here from many of you and I just I just wanted to add that um women really are exposed to chemicals throughout their life and also from different sources and including at home and this exposure at home should be really well recognized because often it is like diluted or not
Not well recognized but at the same time it’s not only like cleaning products or or um like um medications that they deal with it is Al also Sanitary products and um like um I’m sorry I forgot the name but there was an yeah marel not uh talking about transparency within the
Supply chain and uh we also believe that transparency in products targeting women including Sanitary products should be for the value chain not only for the supply chain at the moment very unfortunately uh women deal um with the Sanitary products like on their own risk with no information whatever what they
Use and um there there has been like multiple research um like um yeah research data from for example India where people use sanatary products a lot and there are stock piles and there is no information about toxic chem in these Sanitary products so while we talk about transparency and traceability
That we work on a lots we should talk about transparency and traceability of chemical information in individual materials and products in the value chain and throughout the the life cycle this is this is the comment that I wanted to add thank you so much thank
You thank you very much Olga uh yes that transparency is extremely important and then also not only listing for example what is contained in a product but also sharing information of the potential risks associated with uh with the substances that are being used so there’s there’s that uh that need for uh
Awareness raising and and information sharing not only the the numbers and the long chemical uh names that are on the product but also to be able to make an informed Choice thank you very much Ora for adding that remark and highlighting this sector um I think we have 10 more minutes left uh
If people want to stay a little longer of course you’re you’re uh invited to do that what we wanted to do though with you now that we have the uh the expertise uh of you all gathered here today is to do a bit of brainstorming on
How a future gender action plan of the new Global framework on chemicals could or should look like and uh uh Anna Tad if you could uh put the link in the chat there it is thank you tardy there’s a link to a mural board that we prepared
It’s a virtual board you don’t need to download anything you don’t need an account to be able uh to use it you can just enter as a visitor either you put in your name or not uh just as you as you wish and a random animal will be
Assigned to you so uh there’s nothing downloading to your computer or anything like that if you click on that and you see uh that we prepared uh a virtual space with basically three questions and the yellow squares are prepared virtual Post-it notes that you can use uh to leave uh thoughts suggestions questions
And the three questions that we felt uh might be important to look at is one on the leftand side what actions and activities should be listed in the future gender action plan and we heard actually quite a few already so what is it from your perspective that’s most
Important in terms of actions and activities that should be part of the gender action plan you might want to think about activities that could be done by your own organization or by your stakeholder group as well or what others should be doing then there is a question
Um on the structure of the gender action plan on the upper right hand side for example which which elements should this gender action plan include should it include a timeline uh by which which action should be taken um should it include who does what like what Sasha
Was showing uh I think about the BRS where it actually in the and the biodiversity convention where it actually says with specific actions and who should be doing what uh and indicators to monitor progress and then the third questions uh question is around your experiences with gender
Action plans maybe adding to what Sasha has already shared what are your experiences with gender actions plans what are good to which ones are good to learn from what maybe was difficult and shouldn’t be repeated in this space because it didn’t quite work so what we
Wanted to do is to invite you to leave your thoughts or to contribute your suggestions uh in in on this board uh if you wish if you can’t access the mural board please be happy to share thoughts in the chat here and we’ll copy it across and because time is so limited
Today Anna and I have been whatsapping and we think that we might just leave this open for a day or two and then summarize and uh and share it with you all uh whatever uh it is that you want to be contributing together with the presentations and the link to the
Recording so we got the the full uh wh me um of everything that has been put together here today so don’t be shy if you have ideas or suggest suggestions or questions with regard to the actions and activities that a agenda action plan should include the structure it should
Have and maybe additional experiences that you’ve had with gender action plans um I say again don’t be shy uh just click on a one of the prepared posted notes or you double click anywhere where you want to leave a remark and start typing is very easy to
Do it takes a few seconds to refresh um I hope everybody can access this if you have a problem do let us know and uh if you want to share we’re happy to gather no suggestions and thoughts okay um Manuel you say you have a problem if you I see what you’re typing
In the chat if you want to leave something in the chat and we copy it over uh happy to do that sometimes when there’s quite a few people on a mural board it takes a moment to digest so to say what you’ve been doing um but yeah you can also leave it
In the chat and we copy it across okay there’s quite a few thoughts that people are adding thank you very much okay I’m going to look a little bit at what you’re doing there and just yeah thank you very interesting yeah don’t mind tyst don’t mind uh don’t be worried to mess up
Anything on these boards we can always clean it up and the things that shouldn’t be moved I think have been locked so you can’t destroy much yeah I’ll share the questions uh Janet you’ve asked for the questions I’ll share them here I you have problems with accessing the board just a sec
Or Anna if you have them ready in front of you um so happy if you can share Them just a sec Janet is coming and I’ll add kazia what you said uh to discuss with men and boys I’ll also add that So Anna do you have the questions right there to copy oh yeah there they’re coming thank you I’m typing it in the questions are coming in the chat and so Janet and nicoline you said the mural is not opening for you if you want to you uh leave thoughts here here thank you
Tad also for the question if you want to leave uh your thoughts or suggestions here in the chat you’re very welcome to do it I think we’re going to leave it open a little more um going to close but not really close the meeting so that uh
That you can leave your thoughts even if you can’t access them you all that be okay nice and then there a third question thanks Janet okay all right yeah shall we give ourselves a few more minutes um I do understand if people have to leave of
Course because we said we’re going to go until 5:30 if you can I’ll stay a little longer please do um thanks Johanna for being here and thanks to everybody who has to leave thank you very much for joining and sharing listening and thinking together we’ll make sure
That we’ll summarize what has been put on the board as well as share the presentations and the recording and hope to be in touch with you again to continue working on these issues but maybe also collaborate on developing this gender action plan as the Secretariat pointed
Out this is going to be a consultative process that the Secretariat will convene and maybe our webinar has helped a bit to gather the thoughts that we might want to put in there together so um yeah let’s stay a little longer if you can uh and leave your suggestions and your thoughts
And experiences here and while you do that I would like to thank speakers um who have contributed to today’s webinar Delina and then also Pierre uh from the Secretariat Sasha from wecf thank you for sharing those experiences from elsewhere and marel giving that overview of uh what has come together but also a
Little bit on how it came together uh at the conference in b and what we have now in terms of gender related outcomes and and components of the new Global framework on chemicals and Anna for giving the context uh right in the beginning for organizing and helping to
Set up this webinar as well as Tana both from our team here uh at MSP Institute and one thing that wasn’t on the agenda but I’d like to use the opportunity um to thank thank Anna in particular because she’s going to leave us for a few months uh having better
Things to do uh and we’re very much looking forward to welcoming you back um early next year hopefully thank you very much Anna for all this work uh we’ll miss you thank you thanks Olga sorry sorry I I just wanted to send a heart to Anna but by occasion I just
Raed my Sor sorry about that no no need to be sorry I think we’re all want to send our heart to Anna uh thanks very much and we’ll miss you and we’ll celebrate when you’re back thank you thanks very much so I’m wondering are we are we were not really
Closing but maybe we are closing um as we should uh not go on for too long so I’m just going to look at have a look at the mural board um thank you very much this is very rich and in terms of what it needs to include
You got a lot that it needs to include including a funding mechanism um and capacity building training exposure inventories data data data identification of sources of exposure so there’s a whole there’s a whole our maybe also the work along the life cycle then that’s what the new framework is
Dedicated to and it has to spell out um along the whole life cycle and I’m glad that you mentioned finance and it’s also mentioned in the structure part how should the future Gap be structured you mention the uh Finance issue without that all of it is just
Talk so thank you very much yeah needs timelines it should include tasks for all stakeholder groups which I believe is very important and really requires a broad a participatory process Sasha yeah I put a lot on finance but I want to highlight that we have a problem
With Finance because we know that we are in competition with Finance needed for addressing climate change with Finance needed for addressing um biodiversity loss and um often there is a competition and so I think it’s really important that we’re looking at additional finance and that we’re looking at Innovative mechanisms including polluter Pace
Mechanisms and um that I think is something we might also still need more sharing of practices on um and yeah looking more in detail at how can you get additional funding to do the work the gender mainstreaming in the global framework that is necessary from yeah maybe also you know having
A a a leverage what whatever it’s called a fee on um on certain groups of chemicals being used or so or having um new types of um yeah new types of funding which come in when you know we have already existing polluters um who are maybe not paying their full price I
Think that aspect is really really really important because if not we’re just going to be in competition with the other conventions and that is not where I think we will be able to get all the funding so we need to look at these other sources of funding yeah thanks
Yeah Absol absolutely Sasha personally I would definitely agree and uh and that kind of competition is not healthy quite the contrary so uh two things um come to mind for me one is that it’s it will be very useful to look at uh mechanisms that are being discussed elsewhere um
And how people are advancing the work on extended producer responsibility for example in the Plastics area and others um so that we can learn from that and secondly in the process in the these eight years between iccm 4 and iccm 5 quite a few suggestions were made in
Terms of generating the money that is needed uh not only the funding but also the investment that is needed and uh and I think we shouldn’t forget about those but they’ve been part of the discussion some of them with broad expertise behind it some of them with studies behind them
And we should not put that aside and say now we have the framework no we should we should build on on that and and keep uh considering it and see what we can do about it it’s the the funding question isn’t over by having these beautiful
Target uh and maybe a genda action plan but quite the contrary it’s it’s uh it must be uh at the top because otherwise it is all for not so uh the money is the lifeblood of these actions and uh and it needs to be needs to be there so thank
You very much for uh for focusing on that uh and I think we have quite a few things in our hands actually that we can use to move forward and it’s it’s a little maybe like gender uh we have to keep at it it’s not going to be a fast
Process and it’s not going to be fast and radical agreements maybe but um we need to steadily work at it to change the situation so thank you very much with that maybe we should try and close it for today um I think we have a task here of
A very rich board that we’re going to try and summarize for you uh to share it around so that we can build on what has been pulled together here by everybody uh today together with the presentations and the link to the recording thanks very much for sharing your time and
Contributing and thanks very much to the speakers who prepared very informative Rich presentations and shared their knowledge uh and their questions and challenges so thanks again and let’s close it for today I hope you uh have a good evening a good rest of the day a
Good night and hope to see you again very very soon have a look at gender D chemical.or if you’re interested in what MSP Institute is doing on this and if you’re on that site you can also find some information about the gender and chemicals partnership that was launched
Uh in born and if you’re interested in that one we’re certainly interested talking to you MSP Institute is the Secretariat of that budding multi-stakeholder partnership on these issues so with that thanks again uh and see you soon thanks thanks very