Gender-Responsive Strategies to Climate Change

Gender equality is an important development goal as reflected in the third Millennium Development Goal. This report outlines a rationale for integration of gender into climate change and seeks to support donors in this endeavour by investigating the challenges and opportunities donors are facing, updating the wider body of work and knowledge on gender and climate change and the status of gender in global and national climate policies. Based on these findings, it proposes key principles, questions and strategies for donors – from bilateral and multilateral to non-governmental organizations with a funding role – to improve gender and climate change linkages. Finally, it also offers a menu of ideas for individual steps for donors to take. Full paper available here.

SADC Science, technology & innovation implementation framework to support climate change response

SADC's Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Implementation Framework to Support Climate Change Response was adopted by the region's science ministers in May. The SADC document describes activities in four areas where STI is crucial to tackling climate change: observation and monitoring; impacts, vulnerability and risks; mitigation; and adaptation.
The plan also focuses on identifying sectors vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including producing a vulnerability atlas identifying areas at increased risk of flooding or drought. Available at:http://www.scidev.net/uploads/File/SADC_ST_Implementation_Framework_to_support_climate_change_response_v5.pdf

The Southern African Quadrant Jeopardy: Interlinkages between Culture, GBV, HIV and Women's Rights

This position paper articulates the stance of civil society and communities on the inter-linkages between culture, gender-based violence (GBV), HIV, and women's rights. It looks at current interventions to address the problem, and offers recommendations for states, custodians of culture, civil society organizations, policy makers, and media organizations. According to the discussions, the drivers of the HIV epidemic in southern Africa do not lie only in gender inequalities, but also in the sociocultural, economic, and political contexts of the countries in the region, which form a sharp backdrop against which the increased vulnerability of women to HIV infection must be viewed. For more details go to: http://www.safaids.net/files/SAfAIDS_GBV_position_paper.pdf

Natural resource management : the impact of gender and social issues

Innovation in natural resource management can contribute to rural poverty reduction. Drawing from research throughout eastern and southern Africa, the contributing authors present a synthesis of lesson from both policy and practice. They look at various multi-stakeholder approaches to natural resource management, showing which ones have worked and why. They describe how researchers and development practitioners navigate the dynamics of complex socio-ecological systems. They analyze the outcomes and impacts of development projects, and present comparative insights on methodological, technological, policy, and institutional innovations. Overall, this book explores new trends and drivers in natural resource management and rural poverty in an age of rapid environmental, economic, political, and social change in eastern and southern Africa.Available at: http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/10625/44925/1/131349.pdf

Africa adaptation programme experiences gender and climate change

This discussion paper focuses on gender and climate change adaptation by highlighting the steps that the Afrcan Adaptation Programme (AAP) is taking to ensure the equal participation of women and all members of society in responding to climate change.This is the first edition of the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) Discussion Paper Series.More details available : http://content.undp.org/go/cms-service/download/publication/?version=live&id=3253640