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Introduction

Gender-responsive strategies and policies incorporate the experiences and needs of women and girls and address the underlying causes of vulnerability including gender inequality, gender relationships, power structures, social norms, and leadership.

Knowledge base

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Women’s resilience in the Lao People's Democratic Republic: How laws and policies promote gender equality in climate change and disaster risk management

This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in the Lao People's Democratic Republic to inform efforts to strengthen women's resilience to climate change and disasters.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Women’s resilience in Mongolia: How laws and policies promote gender equality in climate change and disaster risk management

This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in Mongolia to inform efforts to strengthen women's resilience to climate change and disasters.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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How can we make disaster risk financing more gender inclusive?

People living in the same area affected by a disaster will experience it differently depending on their individual vulnerabilities and capacities. These vulnerabilities, and intersecting vulnerabilities, are often invisible in data, policy and practice.

Anticipation Hub
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Interview
Aiping Chen
Aiping Chen: “We need to emphasize how exposed women are to the impacts of climate change"
“If women's involvement also becomes an essential step in screening those project proposals, and their leadership will be encouraged, that would be a success,” Aiping says.
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Step by Step Guidance: A gender-smart approach to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) programmes

This guidance note provides practical step-by-step guidance on how to achieve a gender-smart Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance programme.

InsuResilience Global Partnership
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
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Step by step guidance: A gender-smart approach to monitoring and evaluation of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance Programmes

InsuResilience commissioned a step-by-step guidance note for practitioners involved in the design and/ or implementation of a programme cycle of a CDRFI project.

InsuResilience Global Partnership
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Climate justice means involving gender and sexual minorities in policy and action

Climate change affects people differently, and the most discriminated against are most affected, altering their rights to safety and access to social justice.

Stockholm Environment Institute
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Gender responsive finance interventions are central to tackling climate change

The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified prevailing gender inequalities, highlighting how women are often hit hardest by crises and disasters.

Center for International Forestry Research
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Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty

Tackling climate change requires large-scale financial investments into adaptation and mitigation activities.

Center for International Forestry Research
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Leveraging climate finance for gender equality and poverty reduction: A comparative study

This study discusses climate finance, gender and poverty are not stand-alone, independent topics. Climate change affects all people in different ways. Climate finance can catalyze actions that can either alleviate or exacerbate gender equity and poverty

Center for International Forestry Research

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