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Strategic Ecofeminism Plan

Spanish Gender Project

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“Safe Space” 22nd October 2020

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A quick ecofeminist trip:

Gender mainstreaming in Greenpeace Spain

• It is a globally accepted strategy for promoting gender equality.

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• A strategy, an approach, a means to achieve the goal of gender equality.
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• Mainstreaming involves ensuring that gender perspectives and attention to the goal of gender equality are central to ALL activities.

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INSIDE AND OUTSIDE GREENPEACE SPAIN

1. 2014 Initiative was born in a skillshare of Leadership. Project “Other way to see” First steps towards Gender mainstreaming

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• SMT Commitment.
1. Creation of the Gender team.
2. Budget

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• Diagnosis: good practises and improvement lines.

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Despite Greenpeace's values, the organization is in an unequal society and that patriarchy permeates even the noblest causes.

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Only by establishing orderly measures and concrete plans of action will it be possible to make a difference, achieve internal coherence and be an example for society.

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From Spanish office is a political issue and Ecofeminism is a Principle of our Framework (in Spanish, 2020-2023) with a Gender Policy (English version)

Gender Policy: 10 PRINCIPLES

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1. Consistency with our values
2. Awareness and change in mentality to break power dynamics
3. No equity, no peace
4. Equal treatment for women and men
5. Women as agents of change
6. Being part of the feminist movement
7. Ecofeminism, the answer to a model in critical situation
8. Embrace people diversity
9. Gender variable as analysis parameter
10. Men, allies to advance the feminist agenda

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P1. Consistency with our values

Ecofeminism Principle in Spanish Framework

Equality Plan

• a) Selection and hiring process.
• b) Professional classification, training and professional promotion.
• e) Working conditions, including salary audit between women and men.
• f) Co-responsible exercise of the rights of personal, family and work life.
• g) Female underrepresentation.
• h) Remuneration.

P2. Change in mentality to break power dynamics (internal and external)

• Training processes.
• Trainings with gender perspective in volunteering.
• Ecofeminism Activism: Escuela de Activismo 2020.

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P3. No equity no peace. Connect gender violence with environmental problems.

• 25 N
• UICN Gender-based Violence and Environment Linkages

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P4. Equal treatment for women and men.

• Equality in representation in images
• Sexual objectification prevention.
• For the first time, in the Council of GPSpain there will be a balanced representation of women-men
• Women photographers

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P5. Women as agents of change

• Expertise women
• Rural women. Electric woman
• Activists

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P6. Being part of the feminist movement: Working together with feminist organizations is essential for Greenpeace to echo the demands and incorporate them. On the other hand, bringing environmental demands to the feminist movement is crucial in order to incorporate fundamental demands for women.

• Contribute to Feminist Movement Agenda.

P7. Ecofeminism, the answer to a model in critical situation

• Articles of ecofeminism.
• Feminist proposals for recovery from Covid19 crisis
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P8. Embrace people diversity

• intersectionality
• LGTBQi+

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P9 Gender variable as analysis parameter

• Guide, tools to incorporate gender mainstreaming
• Rural women
• specific objectives:
• The differentiated situation of rural women
• Parity in the testimonies of women and men
• The contribution of women experts has been included
• Specific demands on rural women have been included.
• Rural women's organizations (feminists) have been contacted.
• Gender-based violence in rural areas has been included in the report.
• It has been included in CP, post and all SoME materials.

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P10 Men, allies to advance the feminist agenda

• “Desayunos de hombres”: workshop for men mates: awareness, reflection, etc�Being careful in “heroes” roles and being conscious of our privileges (inequality vs privileges).

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• “No mixed” workshops for men and

women in the volunteers meetings.

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Violet Group (VG): Gender group in volunteer network

Objective of the VG:

Participate actively, together with the gender team, contributing to the design and implementation of measures to incorporate the gender approach in the Volunteer Network, including the training processes.

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Violet Group (VG)

Functions:

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• Contribute their point of view as volunteers co-creating in the design and implementation of the measures, and designing initiatives.
• Identify situations to improve or resistances to address within the Volunteer Network.
• The violet group also generates its vision on the ground, collects information and guidelines that we do not know, how gender work is seen or received...

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Tools to incorporate Gender Mainstreaming

• Guide to incorporate gender mainstreaming in campaigns
• Checking lists.
• Ecofeminist argument
• Instructions for training with a gender perspective
• Representation protocol in external events.
• Terms of Reference with a gender perspective
• Sensitization through gender bulletins

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Final objectives

• Ensure that there is no discrimination
• Ensure that there is no violence in the Greenpeace community.
• Ensure that we do not reverse stereotypes with our work
• Ensure a real impact on our research.
• Ensure that more people join Greenpeace
• Ensure we´re consistent with our values of peace and justice

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Integrate feminism and environmentalism, "ecofeminism" as the key to finding a proposal that will solve the current economic, social, environmental, energy and care crisis.

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More information in Greenwire (under construction)