SEI INITIATIVE

The SEI Gender and Social Equity Programme seeks to address knowledge and policy gaps by mainstreaming gender and social equity into the institute's research and technical tools. The programme is structured around three main tasks: developing new research projects with a gender and social equity lens, adapting modelling tools like WEAP and LEAP for social inclusion, and aligning these perspectives across all SEI research and operations. Current initiatives include studying the gender pay gap in Estonia's bioeconomy, analyzing social factors in SMEs' sustainability agendas, and using agent-based modelling to simulate inclusive sustainability pathways for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• The Programme's core objective is to fill knowledge and policy gaps regarding gender and social equity to advance sustainable development policy through three integrated functions: mainstreaming these issues within SEI's internal operations and model-based policy analysis, launching new research projects with a gender and social equity lens, and communicating findings to stakeholders to enable transformative governance.
• SEI is implementing three specific scoping studies to explore drivers of disadvantage and pathways for empowerment: one examining how SMEs integrate gender and social equity into green business models via the GreenEcoNet platform; one investigating the 30% gender pay gap in Estonia's agriculture and forestry sectors; and one using agent-based modelling to simulate sustainability pathways to ensure the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are inclusive.
• The programme is adapting SEI's technical modelling tools, specifically the Water Evaluation and Planning system (WEAP) and the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system (LEAP), to better incorporate gender and social equity issues and produce insights on power transformation.
• SEI is working to institutionalize gender and social equity by conducting a comprehensive assessment of its research results and personnel expertise to develop a formal strategy, while integrating gender variables into the entire project cycle from budgeting to evaluation.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2016). SEI INITIATIVE. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/SEI-FS-2016-Gender-Social-Equity-Programme.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. SEI INITIATIVE. 2016. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/SEI-FS-2016-Gender-Social-Equity-Programme.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2016sei, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{SEI INITIATIVE}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2016}, url = {https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/SEI-FS-2016-Gender-Social-Equity-Programme.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }