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    Understanding gender in community-based adaptation: practitioner brief

    CARE International, 2015
    Accessing weather forecasts, having control over land, being able to influence decision-making processes, being backed by a community group, or being literate and educated are examples of the human and material resources through which people can act on the consequences of climate change.
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    Gender analysis in building climate resilience in Da Nang: challenges and solutions

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2016
    Although the legal framework for gender equality exists in Vietnam, gender mainstreaming in climate change planning and action have not yet been fully realised and addressed by local actors. In Da Nang, a gendered view to climate resilience building was also a new approach for the city and local authorities and vulnerable communities.
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    Gender approaches in climate compatible development: lessons from Kenya

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2016
    Gender is an important driver of vulnerability to climate risks, and a key factor to consider in developing effective policy responses to climate change and development challenges. In recent years, there have been a number of efforts to support gender equality as part of responses to climate change.
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    Strengthening gender considerations in adaptation planning and implementation in the least developed countries

    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2016
    Adapting to climate change is about reducing vulnerability to current and projected climate risk while vulnerability to climate change is determined in large part by people'€™s adaptive capacity. Climate hazards do not affect all people within a community or even the same household equally because some people have greater capacity than others to manage the crisis.
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    The pacific gender & climate change toolkit: tools for practioners

    The Pacific Community (SPC), 2016
    Gender equality is central to achieving a sustainable and resilient future for Pacific islands.This toolkit is designed to support climate change practitioners working in national governments, non-governmental organisations, regional and international organisations, integrate gender into all aspects of policy, programming and project work.
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    Africa’s smallholders adapting to climate change: the need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers

    Oxfam, 2015
    The need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers Climate change is undermining the ability of African nations to feed themselves. Women smallholder producers are on the front line of dealing with the impacts, but are not first in line for international climate finance.
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    How do gender approaches improve climate compatible development? Lessons from Peru

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2016
    This brief is based on a research project carried out by Practical Action Consulting with support from the Institute of Development Studies, commissioned by and supported by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), to provide evidence on the advantages and challenges of integrating a gender dimension into climate compatible development strategies in urban settings, with a focus on
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    Empowering the poor in a changing climate: experiences from UNDP supported initiatives on adaptation

    United Nations Development Programme, 2015
    The threat of climate change undermining global development efforts is becoming increasingly clear. Climate variability, more intense and frequent extreme-weather events, and growing inequalities are among the impacts being felt, suffered most by the poorest and most vulnerable people.
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    Gender & climate change adaptation: empowering women in agriculture and forestry

    Rainforest Alliance, 2014
    In every region of the world, women are engaged in sectors that are directly affected by climate change. In agriculture, forestry, and other livelihood activities, these women are already feeling the impact of climate change; and generally experience greater vulnerability and risk than men.
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    Virtue and vulnerability: Discourses on women, gender and climate change

    Elsevier, 2011
    In the limited literature on gender and climate change, two themes predominate – women as vulnerable or virtuous in relation to the environment. Two viewpoints become obvious: women in the South will be affected more by climate change than men in those countries and that men in the North pollute more than women.

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