Gender

IUCN’s Environment and Gender Index (EGI) monitors progress toward gender equality and women’s empowerment in the environmental arena, holding governments and policy makers accountable. Existing knowledge can effectively inform national gender and environment policies and their implementation, bridging data gaps and overcoming barriers, to formulate best practices for using sex-disaggregated data and establishing a way […]

By responding to the climate solutions proposed by local women around the world, funders can catalyze long-term change that benefits the environment and entire communities. Full-merged PDF also available in Gender and Climate Change : evidence and experience

This set of policy briefs seeks to address some of the most pressing policy issues concerning gender and climate change, by drawing on the extensive experience of each contributing partner organization. Our hope is that the concise and empirically grounded recommendations in each brief can provide guidance to policy makers and programmers to better identify […]

Simultaneously addressing gender, environment and climate change by strengthening policy coordination, programmatic partnerships, research, capacities and knowledge sharing can advance sustainable development and address inequalities. Full-merged PDF also available in Gender and Climate Change : evidence and experience

This brief highlights policy lessons on providing support to women farmers, and offers guidelines for crafting gender-responsive climate policies at global and national levels. Full-merged PDF also available in Gender and Climate Change : evidence and experience

Gender is key to understanding how individuals’ and groups’ vulnerabilities and capacities to adapt and respond to climate change are shaped. Reducing gender to a comparison between women and men, however, risks painting an unclear picture. Effective and responsive adaptation planningneeds to take into account the ways in which gender intersects with other factors, such […]