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    Climate crisis impacts in the life of women in the Santander region - Colombia

    2011
    This article discusses the struggles of women in Santander against social, economic and political inequity, and the impacts of climate change. Three cases from this northwest Colombian region are examined. The first is a group of countrywomen in the Andean region impacted by desertification and drought.
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    Climate Change and disaster mitigation

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2011
    This publication by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature explains the ways in which gender makes a difference in dealing with climate change and disaster mitigation by portraying a wide array of perspectives.
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    State of the world population 2009 - facing a changing world: women, population and climate

    2009
    This report was created to inform negotiators at the climate conference in Copenhagen (2009). It makes the case that climate change is related to population dynamics, poverty and gender equity. Population growth, poverty and governance systems influence how environmental change affects people.
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    Gender climate change and health

    2009
    This paper by the World Health Organisation (WHO) focuses on the ways in which gender factors into both the vulnerability and the adaptive capacity of people effected by the health impacts of climate change. This information is organised into the two following perspectives:
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    Turning Down the Heat - Gender and Climate Change

    Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, 2009
    This 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.
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    Gender and climate finance

    Heinrich Böll Foundation North America, 2012
    Global climate finance has an increasing number of funds and actors. Since climate change impacts men and women differently, there also needs to be an increasing awareness of gender in these funding mechanisms. Additionally, each gender has different adaptive and mitigative capabilities to respond to these impacts.
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    Traditional leaders wield the power, and they are almost all men: the importance of involving traditional leaders in gender transformation

    Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2010
    How 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.
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    Fundacion Colectivo Cabildeo – Cartillas Informativas - Democracia Intercultural

    2010
    The Colectivo Cabildeo is a group of women based in Bolivia, South America, that aim to generate spaces for discussion, research, capacity building and communications among women and with other social actors for women’s advancement and empowerment.
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    Video: Politicas de Cuidado. Politicas que Transforman

    2010
    Care is not a women’s problem but a social problem that needs to be shared by men and women. This video emphasises the need to change attitudes, policies and services to ensure social co-responsibility around care work. Everybody needs to be cared for in order to live and society needs somebody to carry out such work.
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    Liberal vs Liberating Empowerment: Conceptualising Women’s Empowerment from a Latin American Feminist Perspective

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2008
    What is empowerment and how does it manifest in Latin America? This paper examines feminist conceptualisations of empowerment and how the process is believed to unfold. It outlines two basic approaches to conceptualising empowerment: ‘liberal’ and ‘liberating’.

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