Gender Responsive Climate Change Adaptation

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Climate change impacts are felt across the world and exacerbate the existing vulnerabilities among humans, animals, and ecosystems. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Inter-Government Panel on Climate Change (AR5 IPCC) speaks on how climate change impacts existing vulnerabilities related to non-climatic factors and multidimensional inequalities, and how they shape differential risks from climate change. It further provides that people who are socially, economically, culturally, politically, institutionally, or otherwise marginalized, including social processes such as discrimination on the basis of gender, are especially vulnerable to climate change.

Gender Sensitive NDCs and the Development of Gender Action Plans at the Country Level

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Accessing Climate Finance and Gender Sensitive Climate Action

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SLYCAN Trust

Climate change renders women disproportionately vulnerable to its impacts as a result of persisting gender norms and discrimination. This is evidenced in terms of the impacts of climate change affecting scarcity of water, food security, disaster situations and fuel shortage, thereby having a drastic impact on women’s human rights as well as on gender equalit