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WOMEN
Women's Healthy Planet Report Cards
From: World Women's Congress for a Healthy Palnet, Miami, 1991
HOW TO USE THESE CARDS:
(1) YOU AND YOUR GROUP DECIDE what areas of concern you will look at in your community, e.g.:
#1 - Natural Environment Card:
storage of nuclear and/or toxic chemical waste;
use of hazardous agricultural pesticides;
air quality; conservation of natural resources.
#2 - Political Systems Card:
percent of public offices held by women, ethnic
minorities, etc.;
multiparty system; freedom of speech, press and assembly;
degree to which community life is free of sexism and racism.
#3 - Social Priorities Card:
percent of the community living at or near the poverty level;
percent of population without adequate housing;
access to equal opportunity employment, job-training and child- care services;
access to full range of education and support services.
#4 - Human Development Card:
percent of children that are malnourished;
percent of children that have not been adequately
immunized;
adequacy of reproductive health services;
access to comprehensive health care.
(2) YOU AND YOUR GROUP JUDGE how your community is doing with regard to looking after the area of concern, and you decide on a score, using the grading scale given, where:
A = System is healthy, efforts being made to maintain it.
B = System in good condition, however unrecognized threats.
C = System has serious problems, but efforts being made to improve it.
D = System is deteriorating, but plans being made for
improvement.
F = System not working, no efforts being made to improve it.
(3) When you have graded each area of concern, please send copies of your final report cards to the Women's Environment and Development Organization, to use in our global women's campaign to restore Mother Earth to health.
Contact:
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
845 Third Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10022, USA
Tel: +1-212-759-7982 Fax: +1-212-759-8647
WOMEN'S HEALTHY PLANET REPORT CARDS
"If women comprised half our leaders, human centered, sustainable development and an improved global quality of life with an underpinning of ethical considerations would be realistic goal. "
Rosina Whilshire
Cite as: Youth Sourcebook on Sustainable Development. Winnipeg: IISD, 1995. Online. Internet. http://iisd.ca/youth/ysbk064.htm.