Gender and climate change

Gender and climate change: research gaps, policies and best practices

This paper outlines key linkages between climate change and gender inequality, focusing particularly on adaptation and mitigation policies and practices. The authors note that while there is a wealth of literature on gender-based issues related to environment and disasters, there are few references to gender and climate change.

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Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2012; Tackling the issue of land and resource tenure is one of the prerequisites for mechanisms such as REDD+ to have positive impacts not only on reducing emissions from the forestry sector but also in red...
Is adaptation to climate change gender neutral?: H. Djoudi / Commonwealth Forestry Association, 2011; This article is based on a case study on the Lake Faguibine area in northern Mali. The researchers conducted six single gender participatory workshops in two communities in order to assess the vulnera...
Briefing paper presenting lessons learned from working with women smallholders on food security: R. Tripathi;K. Deering;N. Saracini / 2012; This briefing paper is the result of a collaboration between nine different agencies, sharing lessons learned from working with women smallholders in order to close the gender gap in agriculture. Desp...
Guidebook for designing and implementing gender-sensitive community-based adaptation projects: K. Vincent;L. Wanjiru;A. Aubry / United Nations Development Programme , 2010; This guidebook for designing and implementing gender-sensitive community-based adaptation (CBA) projects has been produced by the UNDP. It draws on the experiences of the UNDP-Global Environment Facil...
Mujeres indígenas y cambio climático. Perspectivas latinoamericanas: A. Ulloa / 2012; The book compiles the topics discussed at the international seminar "Indigenous Women and Climate Change" Bogotá, 2008 organized by the group "Culture and Environment." It is a wonderfull summary of k...
Ensuring Gender Equity in Climate Change Financing: United Nations Development Programme , 2009; Baseline analyses of climate change effects and risks rarely incorporate a gender dimension. Consequently, mechanisms devoted to mitigation and adaptation efforts rarely integrate gender concerns into...
Women who go, women who stay: reactions to climate change: J. Jungehülsing / Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2010; This study investigates the different ways in which women and men are affected by the impacts from climate change, and possible differences in the resulting migration strategies. An empirical study wa...
Common ground In Bangladesh, Ghana, Nepal, Senegal and Trinidad and Tobago: Women’s Environment and Development Organisation, 2008; These five case studies bring to the fore issues women in these countries face and how they are further complicated by the impacts of climate change. Each country page begins with an overview of the n...
Gender lens: adaptation and empowerment: 2010; Vulnerability to climate change is determined, in large part, by people's adaptive capacity. A particular climate hazard, such as a drought, does not affect all people within a community – or ev...
Gender-sensitive approaches and good practice examples from GIZ: J. Krauss / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2011; The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development has made gender-specific challenges and responses to climate change a priority. The Ministry’s Development Policy Action Plan...