INSTRAW RELEASES MULTI-MEDIA TRAINING PACKAGE ON WOMEN, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

14 January 1997

Press Release
WOM/929

INSTRAW RELEASES MULTI-MEDIA TRAINING PACKAGE ON WOMEN, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

19970114 A multi-media training package on "Women, Environmental Management and Sustainable Development" has been released by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW). The material has been developed to assist policy-makers and development officials in integrating women's needs and participation in all phases of sustainable development and environmental management. The training package consists of a 400-page training manual, over 170 transparencies, a trainer's guide, bibliography, and audio-visual support material. Its five modules cover Agenda 21, the programme of action adopted by the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED); women and environmental health; women as agents of change in the development sector; women as managers of the environment; and women, environmental indicators and capacity-building programmes. The training project was prepared in response and as a follow-up to the Environment and Development Conference, particularly Agenda 21; the Plan of Action of the 1995 World Summit for Social Development; and the Platform for Action of the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women. It has been developed for use by senior government officials, development planners, engineers, university professors, development and environment trainers, and representatives of non-governmental and women's organizations who are involved in environmental management and sustainable development. Produced in collaboration with the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the training package will be introduced to interested delegations, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and United Nations staff at briefings given by the Institute at United Nations Headquarters. The briefings will take place during the forty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women in March, the fifth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development in April, and the special session of the General Assembly in June, which will review implementation of Agenda 21 in the five years since the Rio Earth Summit. The training package will soon be available in the United Nations Bookshop for $315; the training manual alone can be purchased for $25. For further information, contact Borjana Bulajic, at the New York Liaison Office of INSTRAW, tel: (212) 963-0834, fax: (212) 963-2978, or e-mail: bulajic@un.org

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