Including environmental, social and gender impact analyses in sustainable development programmes

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends measures to develop and include environmental, social and gender impact analyses as an essential step in the development and monitoring of programmes and policies.

1. Strengthening participation of women in sustainable development programmes
2. Orienting economic policy toward social need
3. Developing integrated environmental frameworks
4. Assessing environmental impacts

1. Assessing impact of environmental degradation on women

1. Reducing sexual discrimination in the workplace
2. Promoting strategic environmental impact assessment
3. Promoting gender-responsive development
4. Ensuring social participation
5. Considering gender issues in biodiversity conservation

1. Exclusion of women in environmental protection

1. Unsustainable
2. Unsociable
3. Undeveloped
4. Underdevelopment
5. Overdevelopment
6. Development