AMMAN — The
Higher Population Council (HPC) has recommended,
in a press statement issued on Monday, the promotion of women's participation
and gender mainstreaming in the design, endorsement, and execution of projects
funded under climate change.
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The statement, issued on the occasion of
International Women’s Day — which is celebrated on March 8 — also recommended promoting the design of
projects of concern to the
Global Environment Facility which benefit women and
are run by women.
The statement called for strategies to increase women’s participation
as decision-makers, planners, managers, scientists, technical advisers, and beneficiaries
in designing, introducing and executing natural resource management and
protection policies.
Secretary-General of HPC
Abla Amawi said that women are more
vulnerable to the impact of climate change than men, as they make up a majority
of the world’s poor, and are more reliant on natural resources that are
particularly threatened by climate change.
“Women in Jordan are more
susceptible to the negative impact of global climate change due to the lack of
gender equity in the use of resources and the exercise of rights, as well as a failure
to make their voices heard due to poor governance,” Amawi said.
This year, the world
celebrates International Women’s Day under the motto "gender-based equality
today for a sustainable tomorrow”, in recognition of the contributions of women
and girls who lead the mission of climate change adaptation and mitigation of
its impact towards a more sustainable future for all. Social media campaigns
for the day will use the hashtag #BreaktheBias.
According to the
Population and Family Health Survey of 2017–2018, the rate of anemia cases
among women aged 15–49 has risen to 43 percent.
Globally, women constitute 70 percent of 1.3 billion
people that live in poverty, women
in urban areas bear the burden of supporting 40 percent of the poorest
households, and women produce 50 percent to 80 percent of the world's food but own
less than 10 percent of the land.
Furthermore, the
statement said that 40 percent of displaced people across the world as a result
of natural disasters and climate change are women and young girls; this
displacement is expected to cause additional gender-based violence, increased
child marriages, and reduced sexual and reproductive health.
Amawi said that women make up 47 percent of the Kingdom’s
total population, and some 392,000 households, or 17.5 percent of all Jordanian households
in 2020, are headed by
women. However,
women's economic participation remains low, with the
economic activity rate of Jordanian women standing at 14.2 percent, compared to
53.6 percent for males, and women’s unemployment rate at 30.7 percent compared
to 21.2 percent for males, according to 2020 figures issued by Jordan’s
Department of Statistics.
Amawi said that HPC
attaches particular importance to this international event, with strategic
objectives linked to its sustainable development goals, in particular goal five,
which calls for “achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls,”
as well as the 10th goal which calls for “reducing inequality within and among
countries”, in addition to giving special attention to the issues of women’s
economic empowerment, increasing their participation in the labor market, and
promoting their reproductive health.
The statement said
women and young girls are effective leaders and makers of change in all aspects
related to climate change and are engaged in various sustainability initiatives
around the world; their participation and leadership has always resulted in
more effective climate action, therefore if we are to achieve sustainable
development, continued examination of both opportunities and obstacles is
necessary to enable women and girls to elevate their voices and participate in
decision-making on various issues related to climate change and sustainability.
Study: More
economically empowered women are less exposed to domestic violence
A study issued by Da’m
Society for Women’s Empowerment, based on a survey conducted in December 2021,
indicated that 78 percent of Jordanians believe that “economically empowered
women are less exposed to domestic violence.”
However 22 percent of
Jordanians do not believe that economically empowered women are less exposed to
domestic violence, as working women are subject to economic domestic violence
“through being deprived of the freedom to choose their work and how to spend
her wages.”
Meanwhile, 88.1
percent of the survey sample said that domestic violence restricts women’s
advancement in the workplace, 79.1 percent believe that women’s work outside
the household limits their susceptibility to domestic violence, and 73.6
percent believe that empowered women in the workplace are less subject to
gender discrimination at work in particular and in society in general.
The study also found
that 94.6 of respondents said that women who embark on income-generating
projects require a safe and domestic environment that is free of violence, and
91.2 percent believe that domestic violence against women jeopardizes their
projects’ revenue.
Around 95.2 percent of
respondents said that a society that accepts and encourages women’s work would
contribute to increasing women’s economic participation, consequently women’s
economic empowerment would mitigate their susceptibility to domestic violence.
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