Teresita O. Vistro

Co-Focal Person, Climate Change and Gender Justice Program, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), Philippines

 

Education

BS Food and Community Nutrition ‘79 

University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City

 

Masters in Women in Development ‘90

Completed course requirements but without thesis

University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City

 

Organizational Affiliation

2012 - present

Research Coordinator, Philippine Development Initiatives and Assistance for the Rural Sectors (PDIARS),Inc.

 

2009 – present

Co-Focal person, Climate and Gender Justice Program, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)

 

International Policy Engagement Experience

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), COP 15 (Copenhagen), COP 19 (Warsaw), COP 20 (Lima) – as representative of APWLD; participated in Women and Gender Constituency events and activities

• Social-Ministerial PreCOP on Climate Change, Margarita, Venezuela, November 4-7, 2014

• Attended the first ADP session in Geneva as part of the Women and Gender Constituency,February, 2015

• Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, New York, , January 2014, spoke  on the thematic issue of climate change and disaster risk reduction -  

• United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) as part of the Women Major Group, 2012

• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW55-59), New York, Feb. 2012 , participated in parallel events sponsored by United Methodist Women

• United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, Rio De Jainero, Brazil Jun. 2012 , as representative of APWLD, and participation in the Women Major Group

 

Regional Policy Engagements Experience

• ASEAN Peoples Forum 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 2015

  • Speaker on Forum on Alternative Regionalism Alternative Regionalism and ASEAN   Women's Blueprint: Environment and Climate Change

  • Speaker on Interface with ASEAN InterParliamentary Assembly (AIPA) on Strengthening Accountability to Women: Climate Change

  • Speaker, workshop on Climate Actions with a SOGI Lens

•  Regional Consultation Local Women’s Perspectives on Conflicts and Peace Building in Asia and the Pacific for Advocacy and Knowledge Building,  22 – 23 September 2014: Bangkok – Thailand

• Regional Consultation of Asia Pacific Civil Society Organizations on Beijing +20,  November, 2014, Bangkok, Thailand

• ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children(ACWC) Expert Meeting to Develop a Study Framework on Women's Economic Rights to Land and Property in ASEAN Countries:  Identifying Specific and Emerging Issues on Women’s Land Rights in the Context of Agrarian Reform Laws, 10-11 June, 2013, Indonesia

 

Trainings/Professional Development

• Trainer,  Climate Justice Feminist Participatory Action Research Trainings, 2013- 2014, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development(APWLD)

• Trainee, Effective Advocacy to Transform Climate Policy: Training and Strategy Workshop for Women’s Rights Advocates, COP 20, November 29-30, 2014.

 

National

• Co-Coordinator, International Peasant Women Fact Finding Mission on land Rights, October 2014

• Co-Coordinator, National Conference on Women and Land Reform, June, 2014

• Lead Researcher, Documentation of Climate Change impacts of Rice producing Communities in Anda, Pangasinan, PAN AP

• Lead Researcher,  Climate Change and Gender Justice: A participatory Research Study on the impact of climate change on women in three selected rural communities in the Philippines, 2013

• Mentor to a young woman research for a feminist participatory action research on gender differentiated impacts of loss and damage as a result of typhoon Haiyan, in Central Philippines. 2014-2015

 

Books, Materials Written

• Editor: Climate Change and Gender Justice: A Participatory Research Study on the Impact of Climate Change on Women in Three Selected Rural Communities in the Philippines; published by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), AMIHAN, National Federation of Peasant Women – Philippines, and Pesticide Action Network – Asia Pacific (PAN-AP), 2013

• Editor: Impact of Climate Change on Rice Production in Rice Producing Communities in the Province of Pangasinan, Philippines, 2012

 

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