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  Gender and the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) programme: Assessment and Action Plan

  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2014

  This report summarises two key documents produced by Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) as part of the drive to address gender. The first, a Gender Assessment of the programme, was carried out in 2012 to assess the level and degree that the programme addressed gender.
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  Climate variability and gender: Emerging experiences from Western Zambia

  Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013

  This paper uses Sesheke district in Western Zambia as a case study on climate variability and gender and relates it to how the livelihoods of natural resource dependent women and men have been affected.
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  Transforming Gender Relations in Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013

  As part of a process to better understand the role of gender in agriculture initiated by the Swedish International Development Agency in 2009, this book presents and analyses a number of case studies from Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and Zambia.
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  Climate Change and Adaptive Capacity of Women to Rural Water Supply in Ekiti State Nigeria

  SAVAP International, 2013

  This study used focused group discussions and interviews of 400 respondents randomly selected from the two senatorial districts of Ekiti State to assess the adaptive capacity of women folk to rural water accessibility as affected by climate change from January 2008 to January 2010.
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  Operationalizing a gender‐sensitive approach in the Green Climate Fund

  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2013

  Climate financing approaches will be more effective and provide broader benefits if they address inequalities that increase the vulnerability of women to climate change and adversely affect their ability to contribute to mitigation and adaptation efforts.
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  Indigenous women's preferences for climate change adaptation and aquaculture development to build capacity in the Northern Territory

  National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, 2013

  Research was carried out on South Goulburn Island, Northern Territory, to improve understandings of local, Indigenous people’s dependency on marine resources, and of their perspectives on climate change, and aquaculture as a means towards adapting to climate change.
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  Gender equality and food security: women’s empowerment as a tool against hunger

  Asian Development Bank, 2013

  Released during the Asia and the Pacific Regional High-level Consultation on Gender, Food Security and Nutrition (July 2013), this report explores the relationship between gender-based discrimination and the different channels through which households and individuals access food. Focusing on Asia and the Pacific, the author Dr.
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  Cities in developing countries and their development in response to climate change

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  DFID are undertaking a basic analysis around cities in developing countries and the potential for increased attention as a response to climate change and natural resource scarcity. This paper contributes to the analysis as a quick and brief overview.
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  Investigating climate information services through a gendered lens

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2013

  This working paper explores the gender dimensions of access to climate change related information. The effective utilisation of information channels is a crucial aspect of adaptation development, yet the people most at risk are often those on the periphery of information dissemination. This is particularly true for women farmers, who are overwhelmingly excluded from many information channels.
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  Training guide: gender and climate change research in agriculture and food security for development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012

  It has been estimated that over 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty, if women were granted equal access to and control of resources. However, climate change and gender have yet to be implemented into agricultural development in an effective way.

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