Ms Meher Marker NOSHIRWANI

Technical Advisor, Trust for Conservation of Coastal Resources TCCR

Meher Noshirwani is a specialist on conservation and environmental management, with a particular expertise on gender. She serves as Regional Vice Chair for Asia, and Chair of the Specialist Group on Gender, for IUCN's  Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy (CEESP). Meher has a Masters in Sociology from the University of Essex, United Kingdom, and has advanced women’s issues, gender, development, environment, and climate change, in Pakistan, the region and globally through CEESP and IUCN. With over 36 years of experience her work involves empowering women and communities to understand the importance of the sustainable use of natural resources. She has a special interest in wetlands, and mangroves, and has worked with women in fishing communities along the coast of Pakistan, on issues of climate change, the importance of mangroves as a natural resource and their protection to coastal communities, awareness, training, and community mobilization.