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Climate Wrongs and Human Rights: Putting people at the heart of climate change policy
Oxfam, 2008Bangladesh will face more frequent and severe flooding due to climate change. Consequently, in the southwest of the country CARE has worked closely with local organisations to help communities – and especially women within them – to decide how best to adapt.DocumentClimate change adaptation from a gender perspective: a cross-cutting analysis of development-policy instruments
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2009Gender concerns and adaptation approaches need to be mainstreamed into the processes of climate and development frameworks and policies, as they are currently largely blind to both issues. An analysis of climate-related frameworks and policies showed disappointing results – specifically, the EU CommissionDocumentAdaptation, gender and women’s empowerment
2010This brief on adaptation, gender and women’s empowerment is part of a series on CARE’s climate change activities. Recognising that many women lack adequate rights, resources and power for responding to climate change, CARE views gender dimensions as critical for understanding vulnerability.DocumentInnovative approaches to gender and food security: insights, issue 82
Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012Gender justice and ending hunger are closely entwined, interdependent goals. Solving hunger now and in the future involves challenging the current global development model which permits – and is driven by – inequality. Gender analysis shows that women are providers of food as producers, processors, traders, cooks and servers.DocumentGender and Climate Change: Supporting Resources Collection
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011This Supporting Resources Collection - part of the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Climate Change- showcases existing work on gender and climate change. It presents summaries of a mix of conceptual and research papers, policy briefings, advocacy documents, case study material and practical tools from diverse regions.DocumentGender and Development In Brief ‘Gender and Climate Change’ – edition 22
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move towards moreDocumentWebsite: Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium (RPC)
Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2009The Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium (RPC) is a five-year DFID-funded initiative established in 2006. The Programme links academics with activists and practitioners to find out what works to enhance women's empowerment. It seeks to identify where women are achieving real gains and discovering the positive and negative factors which have influenced their journey.DocumentSiyanda Update: Empowerment and The Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium (RPC) - Issue No. 80, September 2009
BRIDGE, 2009DocumentTurning Down the Heat - Gender and Climate Change
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, 2009This short clip, filmed by Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development at the Conference of Parties (COP) 15 in Copenhagen, argues that both men and women need to be recognised in the climate change arena.DocumentTraditional leaders wield the power, and they are almost all men: the importance of involving traditional leaders in gender transformation
Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2010How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tackle social issues such as HIV, gender equality and violence in rural African communities? A number of them, including Sonke Gender Justice network, the Ubuntu Institute, CARE International and Zambian Women for Change (WFC) are working with traditional leaders as a gateway to reach the people in communities they are targeting.Pages