Agenda Day 4

Pathways to Achieving Employment and Sustainable Economies

Women & Climate Action

Gender Equity and Inclusion Practices to Achieving Employment & Sustainable Livelihoods

Caribbean Tree Planting international and regional partners are implementing innovative initiatives to support women who depend heavily on the natural environment for water, fuel, and food production to support their livelihoods, including those women who are directly affected by natural disasters, environmental degradation and deforestation.

CTTP recognizes the urgent need to mainstream women into entrepreneurial, and climate action initiatives, understanding the existing barriers faced by rural women, and in particular women farmers in the areas of access to land, agricultural inputs, financing, water, energy, infrastructure, technologies. This segment will feature holistic approaches being implemented by CTPP regional partners. They will share their approach, community involvement arrangements, and active university partnerships for monitoring and evaluation. CTPP partners will also share innovative learn- to- earn strategies that move women from dependency to independence through growing breadfruit, processing breadfruit into flour and selling breadfruit products to sustain their livelihoods.

Features Trees That Feed Foundation, Haiti Project and inspiring women representing international multi-sector & multi-country partnerships to achieve its vision of empowering women and feeding communities through tree planting and entrepreneurship.

Special presentations will be made by international partners from Haiti, US, Tanzania, Nigeria and Dominican Republic with a focus on replicable strategies to improve socio-economic conditions of girls and women through:

• agroforestry

• climate adaptation and mitigation strategies

• women entrepreneurship; and

• empowerment Innovations

MODERATORS

• Dr. Michele Singh - Environmental Consultant & Researcher, Bahamas & Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.

• Ms. Anthea McLaughlin - Managing Director, Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Mary McLaughlin, Co-Founder, Trees That Feed Foundation

• Renate Schneider, President & Founder, Haitian Connection, Haiti

• Senska M. Jean, Co- Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Womenful Voice Organization, Colorado

• Gemela Mary, Founder, Women Against Poverty, Tanzania

• Omobola Eko, Founder, Urban Tree Revival Initiative, Nigeria

• Tacarra Birmingham, Women Leader & Trees That Feed Foundation Partner

• Dr. Ajani Alice Olapade, Food Scientist and Chief Research (CRO), Nigerian Stored Research Institute, Nigeria