Oxfam Office, 355 William Street, West Melbourne, VIC, 3003
In-person event
Women in Aid & Development invites you to join a timely conversation on women and climate justice, following global discussions at Women Deliver.
Across the Asia-Pacific region, communities are experiencing the increasing impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels, food insecurity, displacement, and economic instability. These impacts are not gender-neutral. Women and girls are disproportionately affected, while also playing a critical role in leading community-based responses and climate solutions.
This event will bring together women leaders and individuals with lived experience to elevate frontline perspectives at the intersection of climate change, gender equality, and sustainable development. The discussion will explore how women’s leadership and community resilience are shaping more equitable and sustainable responses to the climate crisis.
The event recognises that climate justice and gender justice are interconnected, and that effective and inclusive solutions must be grounded in community leadership and lived experience.
Join us to hear Climate leaders share how they are leading community responses and advocating for climate solutions.
Speakers
Anila Aftab Schroers
Strategic Lead Gender Justice at Oxfam Australia
Anila is a senior development practitioner with experience across diverse settings of conflict/disaster humanitarian programs as well as long-term development initiatives in Asia and Pacific regions. Over the last two decades, Anila has focused on developing and supporting integrated programs for women that look beyond one aspect of their lives, seeking to bring about a holistic, systematic change. She is currently leading strategic guidance, coordination and institutional development of Oxfam Australia's Gender Justice and Disability Equity and Rights portfolios.
Being a woman from a developing country herself, she is aware of the complexities of engaging communities in conversations around gender, intersectional identities and inclusion. Therefore, her focus is to always design a process of co-creating solutions to gender and inclusion alongside partners and communities that are locally determined and culturally acceptable. She is also a trained psychologist, having practiced overseas in a crisis centre of an NGO, providing case management and counselling. She remains committed to empowering marginalized communities, transforming systems of oppression, and fostering social change through her various roles and initiatives.