Gender

In some areas, women provide up to 80 per cent of agricultural labour, a task that will be made more difficult with the onset of inconsistent rainfall and fluctuating temperatures since they will have less resources and capacity to adapt...

A Regional coordinator of the Ghanian National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Joseph Blankson Nyarko, has called for a sustained educational drive to get women to contribute effectively to reduce the risk of disasters in their communities...

This book considers how gender issues are entwined with people’s vulnerability to the effects of climate change, and how gender identities and roles may affect women’s and men’s perceptions of the changes. It contains case studies that show how women and

With the aim of guiding the implementation of the Hyogo Framework Framework (HFA) in respect to drought, this document elaborates a framework for understanding drought and vulnerability to drought, and provides guidance on actions to reduce the risks

As part of the new regional strategy focusing on disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean, USAID/OFDA recently awarded funding to support projects in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, and Peru, as well as a series of workshops on DRR and protection and gender issues...

Jasmine rice in the weeping plain: adapting rice farming to climate change in Northeast Thailand:

This document presents an Oxfam project whose objectives were to: support farmers to recognise and understand the impacts of global warming and climate

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This issue emphasizes how natural disasters impact and affect genders differently. It discusses the various ways in which using a gender based approach, when dealing with natural disasters, can have a significant

Women are being excluded from the debate over climate change, despite being most at risk, and governments should do more to ensure their situations and views are represented, campaigners and experts say...