POLICY BRIEF: How should the new international disaster framework address gender equality?
The lack of attention to, and misunderstanding of, gender inequality prevents the effective reduction of disaster risks. This policy brief by Dr Virginie Le Masson and Lara Langston highlights the need for specific gender-related measures to be included in the successor agreement to the Hyogo Framework for Action.
Indian climate plans to bring gender perspectives
Aditi Kapoor of Alternative Futures presents her organisation's work to make Indian States' climate plans more sensitive to gender issues - with CDKN support.
Learning lessons from Manatí’s resilient women
A project in Colombia is investigating how women were affected by devastating floods in 2010 and 2011. The hope is to pass on knowledge about how they reacted and coped, to help other communities prepare for similar disasters.
This project aims to address the gap between knowledge on gender and climate finance issues and demonstrate that attention to gender issues can strengthen the impact and effectiveness of climate finance, in particular mitigation finance
Report: Women and climate change
This publication outlines some of the initial steps the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) is taking to ensure that development is both climate compatible and fair to women and men.