UN Women’s The Pacific Gender and Climate Change toolkit designed to support climate change practitioners in the Pacific islands region to integrate gender into their programmes and projects.
It is aimed at climate change professionals working in national governments, non-governmental organizations, regional and international organizations who are involved in managing and implementing climate change programmes.
The toolkit is divided into three parts:
- This introductory module explains why gender is a critical consideration in climate change programmes, projects and strategies, and clarifies some common misconceptions.
- Module 2 focuses on the links between gender and climate change in specific sectors (e.g. food security, water and energy); and uses sectorrelevant case studies to explain how to take gender into consideration. It also includes a module on disaster risk reduction recognising that these interventions should be factored into all climate change adaptation programmes and projects. These sector chapters can also be used as stand-alone documents for practitioners to guide their analysis in a specific sector.
- Module 3 is the ‘how-to’ section and will take you through the different phases of a typical climate change programme/project cycle, identifying potential entry-points for integrating gender in each phase and also includes a generic gender checklist that may be applied to programmes and projects.
This toolkit provides advice at a practical level, to address these needs. The principles and practices proposed in this toolkit are based on many decades of experience in the integration of a gender perspective in sustainable development, natural resources management and disaster preparedness.
It is designed to be a living document which will be revised and added to in future. Its use will also be supported by training and technical assistance to further build capacity in the Pacific islands region to effectively integrate gender in all climate change initiatives.
You can download this resource guide for free here.
