gender equity
Water security in Africa is gender dependent
This blog argues for placing equity and intersectionality at the heart of water security in the face of a changing climate.
Online course: Climate change and inclusive WASH
This course aims to provide global WASH actors with knowledge, tools and case studies to proactively tackle climate change challenges in the WASH sector.
The Climate Crisis: A Humanitarian and a Jewish issue
This report makes the case for why faith-based, humanitarian charities should be adjusting their work to ensure they are building long-term climate resilience, rather than only focusing on short-term, emergency responses.
To do so, it explains the basics of climate science for a non-expert audience, summarises the expected impacts of the climate crisis and the humanitarian imperative to address them, and explains how key Jewish values are being threatened by the climate crisis. It then sets out how World Jewish Relief is structuring its own work on resilience building, mitigation, adaptation and preparedness, to set an example for how their own organisation could begin to enter such a huge sphere of work.
Strong roots, strong women: empowering women for community and coastal ecosystem resilience in central Vietnam
‘Strong Roots, Strong Women’ uses Eco-DRR to empower women for community and coastal ecosystem resilience in central Vietnam.
The norms factor: recent research on gender, social norms, and women’s economic empowerment
Commissioned by IDRC through the GrOW program, this paper reviews and contextualises recent research on social norms and the interaction with women’s economic empowerment.
CKB Module: Advancing Gender Equality in Climate Knowledge Brokering
This module explores: the different dimensions of gender in climate knowledge brokering; provides you with a better understanding of why it is important to incorporate gender; and, the practical steps you can take to further this agenda.
Promoting gender-responsive adaptation in the agriculture sectors: Entry points within National Adaptation Plans
Using the framework of the NAP process, this brief provides an overview of the key gender issues to consider and main entry points for gender mainstreaming in the agriculture sector.
What about gender in climate change? Twelve feminist lessons from development
This article asks a key question for adaptation and gender debates: what can we learn from development on social goal setting, institutional change, and gender equality?
Gender in water and sanitation – empowerment by numbers
An Empowerment in WASH Index aims to identify imbalances in decision-making power between men and women of different ethnic and socio-economic groups in Burkina Faso.
Climate-smart agriculture in Nepal
This brief synthesises CDKN, CGIAR, LI-BIRD and partners' research, field testing and policy work on climate-smart agriculture in Nepal.