CCET’s collaborating institution, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) released new materials based on our 2023 webinar on how to mainstream gender into national waste management policy.

These are:

1. Overall lessons-learned summary:  Released as a new Annex 6 of the 2021 UNEP chemicals guideline, “Incorporating Gender Dimensions into National Strategy Setting in Chemicals Management” (project information of this original guideline by the Chemicals and Health Branch here); and
2. Individual country case studies: Released for Bhutan, Jamaica, Nepal and Uruguay, also linked at the end of the 2023 webinar’s event page here.

IETC’s major activities on gender and social issues in waste management are accessible here:  https://www.unep.org/ietc/what-we-do/gender-and-waste-management