A presentation by Christopher John Wardle to the joint PDI/Oxfam workshop on
Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management in Balochistan.
Serena Hotel, Quetta, Pakistan
09 October 2008
69. Environmental Management and the Mitigation of Natural Disasters: a Gender Perspective http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/env_manage/documents/EGM-Turkey-final-report.pdf
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71. Climate change and human rights http://www.ichrp.org/files/reports/36/136_report.pdf
Aim to learn from you. Will try to make it a little interactive, so expect to be up and down in your seats. Hope to offer some resources that may be of use and will try to stimulate your thinking and hope to discover some heroes here this morning!
Show of hands
All stand up – sit down those of you who think global warming is a too big a problem for us to tackle individually.
Stand up all people - sit down those who have more than five brothers + sisters. Sit down 4, 3, 2 – clap for their parents. Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim country.
Who likes going to Landa Bazaar? Stand up whoever uses a pre-loved phone? Give them a clap.
Stand up anyone here who has a home vegetable patch? Give them a clap. Stand up all NGO members with health, nutrition or livelihood programmes – sit down if they don’t feature kitchen gardens? Give the remainder a clap.
Stand up all – sit those who haven’t watched ‘ An Inconvenient Truth ’. Clap those who have.
Stand up if you area member of the Wake-up! Campaign to end so-called honour killing – give them a clap.
How do you know you’re making a difference in your work? What tools do you use to assess impact in your organisation? What workplace policies make your organisation environmentally-friendly?