60 % of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people are women who are dependent on their natural environment to earn a living and feed their families.
These women and girls also shoulder the burden of tilling land, grinding grain, carrying water and cooking over smoky stone fires. Women thus have important knowledge and experience of their environments that should be harnessed as a vital source of information to shape inclusive national environmental policies.
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Within Environment and Sustainable Development, UNDP works to:
Support governments in defining environment and energy policies, plans and budgets that address the needs of both women and men
Enhance governments' capacity to deliver modern energy and environment services equitably to poor women and men.
Help women's networks to participate effectively in national, regional and global decision making on the environment and climate change
Improve access to environmental finance for women entrepreneurs and community-based women's organizations.
Draw upon women's local knowledge to protect, sustain and manage biodiversity and natural resources.
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