The CBD Women's Caucus is the constituency for women to participate in the UN Biodiversity
it is a self-organised platform of individuals, community-based organisations, and civil society organisations advocating for and contributing to the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in a gender-responsive manner.
Our mission is to enable women and girls to secure their rights in biodiversity policy and action.
We deliver through:
Community
building
Capacity
development
Awareness
& outreach
Knowledge
production
Policy &
advocacy
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Becoming a member of the CBD WC is your gateway to shaping the future of gender justice in biodiversity.
The latest
Making Women Visible in Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture Reporting
The CBD Women's Caucus participated in the Second Session of the Ad Hoc Expert Team on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture (Rome, July 2026), calling for gender-responsive reporting and sex-disaggregated data to make women's contributions to biodiversity visible.
Rooted in Armenia, Rising Toward Yerevan: How 60+ Women Prepared to Shape COP17
Rooted in Armenia, Rising Toward Yerevan: How 60+ Women Prepared to Shape COP17
Over two months, the CBD Women's Caucus, the COP17 Armenian Presidency, the CBD Secretariat, and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute delivered a four-part training series preparing 60+ Armenian women and gender justice advocates for CBD COP17. With 15+ expert speakers and four partner organisations, the series built lasting knowledge, connections, and momentum ahead of Yerevan.
Peer Review of the Draft Global Report on Collective Progress in the Implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
The CBD Women's Caucus submits 48 peer review comments calling for a substantive gender lens, sex-disaggregated data, and traceable finance in the Global Report on the KM-GBF.
