Why do we need to address gender issues in climate
change adaptation?
BECAUSE CC ADAPTATION IS NOT GENDER-NEUTRAL
•Women often suffer most from CC impacts: poorer, more vulnerable, less access to resources and services, victims of gendered division of labour, less liberty of migration, low visibility and decision-making power less, face violence in face of disaster/conflicts, inadequate [...]
Archive for the ‘climate change’ Category
17 Jul
Gender in Climate Change Adaptation
13 Jul
Gender in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
The United Nations has assumed obligations in all policy areas and programs of gender mainstreaming.
Gender equality has yet to be attained anywhere in the world, however. Women and men have different societal and social roles and responsibilities. The legal situation of women and men differs greatly in many countries, as does their economic situation [...]
3 Jul
Gender, Climate Change and Human Security: Lessons from Bangladesh, Ghana and Senegal
Climate change is increasingly recognized as a major human security issue that poses serious global threats. For the world’s poor the impact will be most severe, disproportionately affecting their livelihoods and security. As a result, they are most likely to bear the heaviest burdens when natural disaster strike. At the same time, women are [...]
30 Jun
Gender, Development and Climate Change
In the face of extreme weather events, desertification, and a rise in the sea levels, governments and communities increasingly recognize that the need to adapt and mitigate to climate change is urgent. the global agenda and negotiations focus on what governments, corporations, and institutions can do in the search for large-scale technological solutions. [...]
29 Jun
Case Study: Gender and Climate Change Finance, Philippines
What do women’s rights have to do with climate finance? Investing in women is one of the most effective ways to advance sustainable development and fight climate change devastation. Taking an in-depth look at the Philippines, WEDO explores the gender dimensions of climate finance at the national level in our latest publication Gender and Climate [...]
23 Jun
Gender and Climate Finance: Double Mainstreaming for Sustainable Development
Climate change is real, it is happening already and its impact on people are not gender-neutral. It is affecting men and women all over the world differently, especially in the world’s poorest countries and amongst the most vulnerable people and communities. As women and men have different adaptive and mitigative capabilities, the financing instruments and [...]
22 Jun
Human Rights, Climate Change, Women
STATEMENT TO THE ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
HUMAN RIGHTS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND WOMEN
By the Worldwide Organization for Women
15 June 2009
This statement is joined by the following members of the CoNGO NGO Committee on the Status of Women: Worldwide Organization for Women (WOW), Pan Pacific and South East Asia Women’s Association (PSAWA), International Federation [...]
21 Jun
Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management
The resource guide on gender and IWRM is meant as a reference document to assist water and gender practitioners and professionals as well as persons responsible for gender mainstreaming, and anybody else who is interested in the water sector.
It is a reference guide that should be used in conjunction with the texts and materials [...]
17 Jun
Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change
To meet the demand for improving skills in gender and climate change, and to build up a pool of trainers in different regions and countries, the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) has developed the present training manual. The purpose of presenting the concepts in this manual is to increase the capacity of policy [...]
17 Jun
Fact Sheet: Gender and Climate Change
Women are the main producers of the world‘s staple crops, providing up to 90% of the rural poor’s food intake and producing 60–80% of the food in most developing countries. Maize, sorghum, millet and groundnut yields have a strong association with the year-to-year variability of ENSO (El Niño/Southern Oscillation) in Africa. For southern Africa [...]
