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Designing, resourcing and implementing gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction policies, plans and programmes. raising awareness of gendered vulnerabilities of men, women and LGBTs, and promoting inclusion and leadership of women and gender minorities in DRR.

The Gender Action Plan to support implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai GAP) has been launched. The Sendai GAP identifies nine key objectives related to the four priorities of the Sendai Framework, and 33 recommended actions promote gender equality and the empowerment and leadership of women and gender stakeholders in disaster risk reduction. Access the GAP

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Documents and publications
Advancing gender-transformative action in human mobility in the context of climate change

This publication explores how climate mobility programmes can move beyond gender-responsive approaches towards more gender-transformative change.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
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Documents and publications
Women's well-being and everyday adaptation to heat

This review examines how extreme heat affects women’s well-being and highlights everyday adaptation practices across Africa, Asia and Oceania.

WIREs Climate Change
A woman after receiving her humanitarian kit after Cyclone Freddy - Mozambique
Research briefs
Women experience extreme heat differently to men. And they’re adapting to it in creative ways

This research review, which looks at examples across Oceania, Africa and Asia finds that the people who are forced to adapt to the greatest extent are the ones that climate policies ignore the most.

Conversation Media Group, the
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India’s future climate resilience will depend on its ability to build a public healthcare system that recognises heat as a highly gendered disaster

Women experience heat differently due to physiological, occupational, and socio-economic factors; they cannot be considered an “invisible category” within climate governance

The Cool Down
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Documents and publications
Women’s empowerment and climate resilience: global evidence

This study investigates whether empowering women can reduce climate vulnerability, and enhance nations’ resilience, readiness and adaptability to climate change.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature)
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Documents and publications
Climate-induced internal migration for domestic work in India: Gendered risks and policy responses

This issue brief examines how climate change is reshaping internal migration patterns in India, particularly among women and adolescent girls entering informal domestic work in urban centres.

Social Policy Research Foundation (SPRF)
Case study
Mozambique
Advancing gender equity and climate resilience through baobab fruit value chains
This case study explores how the commercialisation of baobab fruit in northern Mozambique is creating new opportunities for rural women while strengthening climate resilience.
  • Climate and Development Knowledge Network
Research briefs
Financial strain, lockdowns and fear of infection during disease outbreaks magnify violence against women and girls − research

When the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, another crisis quietly grew behind closed doors.

Conversation Media Group, the
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