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    Is adaptation to climate change gender neutral?

    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 vulnerability and adaptive strategies to climate variability and change for livestock and forest based livelihoods. The results show divergences in the adaptive strategies of men and women.
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    What works for women: proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security

    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.
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    Gender, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Climate Change Adaptation: A Learning Companion

    Oxfam, 2010
    This Learning Companion aims to provide Oxfam programme staff with the basis for incorporating gender analysis and women’s rights into Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) programming.
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    Gender, climate change and community based adaptation planning

    United Nations Development Programme, 2010
    This guidebook for designing and implementing gender-sensitive community-based adaptation (CBA) projects draws on the experiences of the United Nations Development Programme - Global Environment Facility (UNDP-GEF) CBA programme from ten participating countries around the world. The paper begins by introduces gender, its place in development and the importance of promoting equality.
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    Gender, cities and climate change

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2011
    Climate change is one of the most dangerous threats ever faced by humankind.
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    Gender, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation: a learning companion

    2010
    This Learning Companion aims to provide Oxfam programme staff with the basis for incorporating gender analysis and women’s rights into Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) programming. Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction are priorities for Oxfam GB, as are strengthening women’s rights and gender equality.
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    Draft Guidelines to mainstreaming gender in the development of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)

    UNFCCC National Adaptation Programme of Action, 2011
    Climate change will affect all countries, in all parts of the globe. But its impacts will be distributed differently among regions, generations, age classes, income groups, occupations and genders (IPCC, 2001). The poor, the majority of whom are women living in developing countries, will be disproportionately affected.
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    Exploring the 'Gender ICT Climate Change' Nexus in Development: From Digital Divide to Digital Empowerment

    Centre for Development Informatics, 2012
    The issue of how gender influences the effectiveness of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in tackling climate change is under-researched. This paper offers a systematic review of how gender shapes, and is shaped by, the interaction of ICTs and climate change. It explains why, and how, women tend to be more constrained than men from using ICTs in tackling climate change.
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    Adaptation Learning Programme in Ghana: Empowered Women Lead on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

    Care Climate Change Information Centre, 2012
    This short Adaptation Learning Programme publication provides a case study from the Kugri community of the upper east region of Ghana. Using stories from individual members of the community it narrates the struggles and challenges of adapting to the impacts of climate change (such as increasing floods and droughts), and the ways in which families have been able to stay out of poverty.
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    Gender and climate adaptation: tools for community-level action in Nigeria

    Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team, 2011
    In Africa, as in many parts of the world, the impact of climate change is visible and widespread...Such impacts combined with high dependence on natural resources and rain-fed agriculture mean that many African countries, including Nigeria, face high vulnerability in the coming decades.

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