Finland Increases Support for Gender in Rio Conventions

Finland has announced that it will contribute EUR250,000 to the Special Voluntary Trust Fund of CBD to support implementation of the Gender Plan of Action and activities to mainstream gender in the three Rio Conventions and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This will enable the Joint Coordination Group on Gender, established by the Secretariats of the three Rio Conventions to work towards the goal to lift, by 2020, gender as a cross-cutting priority and to ensure that it is integrated into thematic issues across the Rio Conventions and the GEF,

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