Gender-Responsive Strategies on Climate Change: Recent Progress and Ways Forward for Donors

Abstract:

This paper outlines a rationale for improved 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 organisations 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.