Joanna Kerr ~ "Effects of Climate Change on Women"
Joanna Kerr is the Director of Policy and Outreach for Oxfam Canada. She is the former Executive Director of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), an entity she transformed into a leading multi-generational global feminist membership organization. She has been an advisor to numerous organizations including Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, Mama Cash, the UN Trust Fund on Violence Against Women and The Stephen Lewis Foundation. In the nineties she was a Senior Researcher at The North-South Institute in Ottawa where she managed the gender program.
Joanna Kerr holds an MA in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. She is on the board of the Nobel Women's Initiative, the Gender at Work Collaborative, and an advisor to JASS. Some of her publications include Financial Sustainability for Women's Movements Worldwide (AWID 2007) and The Future of Women's
Rights: Global Visions and Strategies (2004, ZED press) edited with Ellen Sprenger and Alison Symington, Demanding Dignity: Women Confronting Economic Reforms in Africa (2001) edited with Dzodzi Tsikata, The Gender Dimensions of Economic Reforms in Africa, editor with Lynn Brown (1997), Gender and Jobs in China's New Economy, co-authored with Julie Delahanty (1996) and Ours by Right: Women's Rights as Human Rights (1993), published by ZED press.