Rethinking Technology from a Gender
Perspective
Financing for Development and the
post-2015 development agenda
• Two distinct processes with different histories and
objectives
• That should lead to coherent and complementary
outcomes
• Key principles: Non-regression and common but
differentiated responsibilities
• FfD should address the systemic issues in international
financial governance that could undermine
implementation of the SDGs
• The post-2015 development agenda should include
both financial and non-financial Means of
Implementation
Non-financial Means of
Implementation
• A strong human rights-based regulatory and
institutional framework
• Capacity-building
• Technology and innovation, including new and
traditional technologies, innovations and
knowledge held by Indigenous peoples, women
and local communities
• Collective actions, including ICCAs and other
community initiatives for sustainable livelihoods
Not just any technology
• MOI on technology should facilitate the deployment of
locally-appropriate, environmentally sound and proven
technology, innovation, knowledge and practices that
contribute to all SDGs. Coherence with broader agenda
is key. Environmentally sound is a criteria, not the sole
objective. But they should also be socially and
economically sound.
• Technology needs to be monitored and profoundly
assessed prior to any transfer or divulgation.
• The main task of facilitation mechanism would be to
ensure monitoring and multi-stakeholder assessment
of impacts of potential technologies for sustainable
development, based on robust criteria and indicators.
Foster the sustainable technologies
and knowledge we have
• Give equal recognition to the contributions of formal
innovations and traditional knowledge systems.
• Science and technology education must be gendersensitive, hurdle gender stereotypes and recognize the
contribution of traditional knowledge systems.
• The role of women, especially the youth, as technology
producers, innovators, entrepreneurs and knowledge
holders must be mainstreamed and supported.
• Local innovations, indigenous knowledge and endogenous
technologies that are mostly held by women must be
scaled out, taking into account the recognition and
protection of community rights over traditional knowledge
systems as embodied in international instruments.
Indigenous peoples and local community
conserved territories and areas (ICCAs)
An indigenous people or local
community takes, de jure or de facto,
the main management decisions
regarding its territory, area and natural
resources resulting in conservation and
restoration
• ICCA coverage is estimated
to be larger than
governments’ protected
areas (12 – 22 % of terrestrial
surface)
• Increasing evidence ICCAs
are more effective than
protected areas
• ICCAs are the basis of
livelihoods for millions of
people, securing resources
(energy, food, water, fodder)
and income
Promoting Community Conservation Resilience: a
“psychology of solutions” (e.g. MoI 15.c.2)
Shimshal Community
Conserved Area,
Pakistan
Gunba sacred hill,
Nagela(China)
Setulang
river,
Indonesia
Walalkara Indigenous PA, Australia
Community forest, Costa Rica
.
Sacred crocodile pond, Mali
Prey Thom in Phnom
Kulen National Park,
Cambodia
Forole sacred
mountain
Borana/ Gabbra
Ethiopia/ Kenya
Sacred lake, Indian Himalaya
MOIs should recognize, respect, foster, and provide appropriate
support, including legal, economic, social, cultural and moral
incentives, to all environmentally and socially sound
technologies, innovations, knowledge and practices that could
contribute to sustainable development, including through
“revolutionary ideas”