Climate change: Learning from gender analysis and women's experiences of organising for sustainable development

Dankelman, Irene

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“…Nevertheless, women have many reproductive responsibilities and 'every dawn brings with it a long march in search of fuel, fodder and water' [124] (p. 23). For their everyday life and long-term existence, women and men thus depend differently on energy, land, water and other natural and social resources [98,125,126].…”

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What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Jerneck

2018

Sustainability

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Adaptation and mitigation are two key responses to climate change. In the global South they prompt many questions: what is the direction and degree of change needed? How can new climate change policies be aligned with existing development initiatives? How are core social relations such as gender understood and prioritized in relation to technical and other solutions? In search of synergies between adaptation, development and mitigation, this article asks a pertinent question for sub-Saharan small-scale agriculture in particular: what can adaptation and mitigation learn from development debates on social goal setting, institutional change and gender equality? From the perspective of sustainability science and feminist literature, three main findings emerge. First, as regards social goal setting, adaptation and mitigation should, like development, support the escape out of poverty, ill-health and food-insecurity. Second, as regards institutions, adaptation and mitigation should address how gender regulates access to, use of and control over resources in terms of labor, land and strategic decision-making power. Third, as regards gender equality, adaptation and mitigation should learn from how development in theory and practice has addressed gender, women, nature and the environment. At its core, the analysis contributes twelve salient themes that can significantly inform adaptation and mitigation in research, policy and practice, thus serving as inspiration for a critical debate on much needed synergetic trajectories.

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What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Jerneck

2018

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“…Limiting the participation of women entirely by their experience as a group vulnerable to changing political, economic, and ecological environments only reflects one type of experience with these environments. Women are also important natural resource managers, forest users, and members of their communities (Dankelman, 2002;Fulu, 2007;Carvajal-Escobar, Quintero-Angel & Garcia-Vargas, 2008;Nelson & Stathers, 2009;Glazebrook, 2011). They are vulnerable to a changing environment and degraded and deforested forests, but they are also contributors to these processes.…”

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Gender Mainstreaming Principles in Indonesia’s REDD+ Program A Document Analysis

Wornell¹,

Tickamyer²,

Kusujiarti³

2015

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This paper analyzes publically available, published documents to conduct a systematic review of the inclusion of gender mainstreaming principles in documents related to one of the largest, most important international forest-preservation projects, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). Although more than 60 countries have adopted REDD+ initiatives, this document analysis focuses specifically on REDD+ in Indonesia, both because of its early adoption of REDD+ and as one of the most ecologically diverse and environmentally important countries in the world. Of the 383 documents reviewed, only 88 were found to include any mention of gender, and of those, very few included gender mainstreaming principles to a level that could be considered integrated and substantive. The distinct lack of these widely touted but seldom implemented principles should be of concern to international and national policy makers, and taken under serious consideration during the forthcoming Conference of the Parties (COP) 21 meetings in Paris. Moreover, this analysis is the first step to identifying where women's voices may still be silent, and lays the groundwork for more extensive, on the ground research of REDD+ project sites to evaluate the extent to which gender mainstreaming is or is not incorporated into actual project implementation in Indonesia.

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“…Most research undertaken on climate change and livelihoods have not focused on collecting and analysing gender disaggregated data, this has led to the assumption that climate change impacts on the livelihoods of women and men in the same way (Dankelman, 2002 andFood andAgricultural Organisation [FAO], 2003). Furthermore, there has been a slow progress in recognising the social dimension of climate risk despite years of research by social scientists (Fothergill, 1996, Moosa andTuana, 2014).…”

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Gender and Resilience to Climate Variability in Pastoralists Livelihoods System: Two Case Studies in Kenya

Omolo¹,

Mafongoya²,

Ngesa³

2017

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Recurrent droughts due to climate change has led to vulnerability of the pastoralist communities, leading to loss of assets and food insecurity. Climate change will have different impacts on women and men's livelihoods. Building resilience at individual, household and community level will largely depend on the suitability of interventions to the local context, particularly in relation to the social dynamics and power relations that create differences in vulnerability. Most of the research have focused on national and regional studies. The impact of climate change will not be uniformly distributed in countries within Africa or within the same country. This specific research focuses on two diverse ecological zones at the local level in the same County of Turkana in north western Kenya: agro-pastoral zone and primary pastoral zone. This paper aims to evaluate women and men's adaptive capacity to climate variability in Turkana, north-western Kenya. It is evident that increasing resilience can be realised by reducing vulnerabilities and increasing adaptive capacity. The results revealed that agro-pastoralists are more resilient to climate change than primary pastoralists. Male headed household are more resilient than female headed households. Access to basic services is contributing more in the resilience score than assets, gender of house hold head and age. Generally, few families in this region have very high resilience score.

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Climate change: Learning from gender analysis and women's experiences of organising for sustainable development

Cited by 129 publications

References 1 publication

What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Gender Mainstreaming Principles in Indonesia’s REDD+ Program A Document Analysis

Gender and Resilience to Climate Variability in Pastoralists Livelihoods System: Two Case Studies in Kenya

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