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IANS | 12 Dec, 2018
India's Gujarat on Tuesday got a United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) award for women's leadership with low cost and
sustainable technology to tackle storms.
The Gender Just Climate
Solutions Award of the Women and Gender Constituency, one of the nine
stakeholder groups of the UNFCCC, was given to Gujarat at a side event
of the ongoing 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) in this Polish
city in the technical category.
The award mentions that Gujarat,
prone to short periods of heavy rains and flooding, followed by long
droughts, has combined women's leadership with low cost and sustainable
technology to tackle the severe impacts of excessive rainwater from
storms.
This technology protects groundwater via a filtration system and increases soil fertility by reducing salinity.
The
units conserve one to four million litres of runoff water and can
irrigate 22 acres during the dry season. While women still do not own
the land, by owning the technology they help their community double
their harvest which in turns has a tremendous impact on their role in
the community as decision-makers.
Since 2011, more than 3,500 units have been installed in India and also increasingly abroad, in Ghana, Vietnam and Bangladesh.
Each
installed "Bhungroo" provides food security for 30 to 100 people,
generating an additional income of about $5700 per year, a statement by
the UNFCCC said.
Established in 2009, the Women and Gender
Constituency now consists of 28 women's and environmental civil society
organisations, who are working to ensure that women's voices and their
rights are embedded in all processes of the UNFCCC framework.
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other winners are Dorothee Lisenga of CFLEDD, Clive Chibule of the
Green living Movement and Trupti Jain of Naireeta Services.
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