Advancing Gender Equality and Climate Action: A Practical Guide to Setting Targets and Monitoring Progress
Publisher: Climate and Development Knowledge Network, Overseas Development Institute, SNV, CARE, and Mercy Corps
Author(s): Mairi Dupar and Patricia Velasco
Date: 2022
Topics: Climate Change, Gender, Land, Livelihoods, Programming
Countries: Cambodia, Ecuador, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania
Gender inequalities shape people’s vulnerabilities to climate change. Women have less access to the development services and support – such as adequate healthcare, education and modern technology – that make people more resilient to climate change and other shocks and stressors. Women’s unequal access to resources, their disproportionate responsibility for care of dependents (typically unpaid), and the insecurity and precariousness of their paid labour all contribute to the feminisation of poverty and women’s heightened vulnerability to climate hazards. Climate change is a multiplier of existing vulnerabilities and threatens to reverse hard-earned development gains for all people, and particularly for women.