Climate change impacts and intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

UNFPA, in collaboration with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna, conducted a comprehensive analysis and projections of climate change impact on Intimate partner violence (IPV) using demographic and health surveys and shared socioeconomic pathways.

The findings of this study are quite significant for the region and a first in this kind of projection to help put numbers on potential impacts. This analysis of different development and emissions pathways, offers recommendations on how various stakeholders can help address these impacts and how it can help shape critical national climate policies to ensure they address such disproportionate impacts of climate change especially on women and girls.  

As countries look to submit the third cycle of the Nationally Determined Contributions as well as developing other critical climate and gender policies,  studies like this can make a big difference in ensuring that we truly leave no one behind delivering transformative acclimate action that addresses the interaction of climate with IPV and the broader scope of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), gender-based violence (GBV) and harmful practices: