also see: MSPs Facilitation Capacity Building Gender
Since 2016, supporting the GIZ Partnerships 2030 Platform to provide analysis, design, facilitation and coaching for preparing and initiating multi-stakeholder partnerships aiming to contribute to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda; developing information materials and tool boxes, e.g. on Human Rights and MSPs and on partnerships for SDG11 / MSPs and and with cities and their networks.
In addition, I have developed a guidance tool on Gender and MSPs for GIZ (together with Anna Holthaus).
Supporting the MSP Institute’s project on Gender and Chemicals: Issues, Stakeholders, Strategies, May 2017 – December 2022. Conducting analyses of gender issues, stakeholders and relevant political processes; developing policy suggestions for SAICM Beyond 2020, supported by the German Environment Ministry.
In 2021, we will also start working on a Gender Road Map for chemicals policy and implementation in Germany, supported by the German Environment Agency.
International Chemicals Management – SAICM Beyond 2020: Since 2015, I have been supporting the German Federal Environment Ministry and the Environment Agency in the UN multi-stakeholder process on international chemicals management towards a new framework beyond 2020 in several projects. I am providing support for the German presidency of the ICCM5 process, process design and facilitation at the UN, national and EU level .
A project led by arepo, in collaboration with Wuppertal Institute and Dr Marcus Andreas, was examining social aspects of climate change related transformation, and building networks with partners and experts around the world for exchange and mutual learning on these issues. The project was contracted by the German Federal Environment Ministry and was implemented February 2021 – December 2022.
KöP: Cooperating with ifeu, Climate Alliance and seecon on “Klimaschutz in öffentlichen Projekten (KöP) – Climate Action in Public Projects”, to develop a toolbox for integrating climate in all municipal projects beyond environment; 2017-2021.
Consultant Celia Schmidt is supporting me in this project, reviewing project management literature and supporting the collaboration with pilot municipalities.
In Zusammenarbeit mit ifeu, Climate Alliance and seecon trage ich zur Entwicklung eines Toolkits zum Klimaschutz in öffentlichen Projekten (KöP) bei, um die Integration von Klima in alle öffentlichen Projekte in Kommunen zu fördern und praktisch zu unterstützen; 2017-2021. Beraterin Celia Schmidt unterstützt mich dabei.
Having co-founded the MSP Institute – Multi-stakeholder Processes for Sustainable Development eV, an international charitable association based in Berlin, Germany, I am also working to develop and implement non-for profit projects as well as publications as an associate of the organization.
I am serving on the Advisory Board of the INTERLACE project, led by Ecologic Institute and supported by the European Commission DG Research & Innovation, 2020-2024. The project brings together a unique consortium of European and Latin American partners to contribute to effectively restoring and rehabilitating urban ecosystems to make cities more livable, resilient and inclusive. It aims to advance knowledge and awareness of restorative nature-based solutions (NBS), and lays the foundation for sustained multi-directional cooperation and exchange between European and Latin American cities.
I have been teaching a 3-4 day course on Stakeholder Engagement at the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center at ETH / Technical University Zurich, Switzerland, every 1-2 years since 2011. This is part of the PhD Program on Science and Policy. In January 2021, it was conducted entirely online for the first time .
EcoAgriculture Partners: I served as a Member of the Board of Directors of this international organisation headquartered in Washington, DC, from 2005 until 2015, and am now a Senior Fellow.
Ecoagriculture Partners is an independent non-government organisation, a node in a network of farmers, non-government organizations, governments and international organisatins, research institutes, agribusiness, and conservationists. After taking shape at the Stakeholder Implementation Conference in 2002, which I co-coordinated, Ecoagriculture Partners held its first international conference in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2004, and the second in Nairobi in March 2012. It is active primarily in East Africa, Meso-America and North America. EcoAgriculture Partners was also serving as the coordinating Secretariat of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative, LPFN. It is now one of the champions of the 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People initiative, which I supported with process design and facilitation services in their co-creation process in 2020.
GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice: Having co-founded an organisation that serves to facilitate and coordinate an international network of women and gender experts working on climate change. I was Chair, then Vice-Chair of the Board (2008-2012), now a member of the Steering Committee. I mostly worked to develop, and help implement a multi-pronged strategy aiming to increase gender responsiveness of international climate change policies under the UNFCCC process. Coordinated a number of activities at UNFCCC conferences since 2005. Having achieved the official “observer constituency” status for women and gender experts in the UNFCCC process, GenderCC became the first focal point for the constituency, facilitating the connections between women worldwide and the political process. We are continuing to raise women’s voices in the process at international and national levels, but we also focus on implementing projects with local women around the world.