Gender, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Climate Change Adaptation: A Learning Companion
- Abstract
This Companion provides the theoretical overview of how poverty and inequality shape the experiences of women and men during disasters, and as a result of climate change;analyses Oxfam’s approach to strengthening gender equality and women’s rights through gender mainstreaming, and how this is applied to adaptation and risk reduction work in practice;explains what gender equality, women’s rights, and women’s empowerment mean in terms of changes in the lives of women and men who are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and at risk of disaster.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Author
- Oxfam GB
- Date
- 2010
- Series Title
- The Learning Companions
- Short Title
- Gender, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Climate Change Adaptation
- Institution
- Oxfam GB
- Organization Type
- Ngo
- Solution
- Disaster preparedness
- Region
- International
- Other
- Social determinants of health