Accelerating Gender-responsive Action through Empowered CSOs

Year: 2021 Tags: Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Regional

This report aims to understand the capacity gaps experienced by civil society organizations (CSOs) to advocate for gender mainstreaming in climate change and disaster risk reduction plans, policies...View

Review of implementation: Bangladesh’s Climate Change Gender Action Plan (ccGAP)

Tags: Climate Change, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment

The aim of this rapid appraisal in reviewing the Climate Change Gender Action Plan (CcGAP) 2013 in Bangladesh is to review the progress of CcGAP implementation and to identify barriers and...Download

A Brief Review of Projects under the Department of Environment, and the Department of Women Affairs from a Gender Responsive Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Perspective

Tags: Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Disaster Risk Reduction, Bangladesh

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) are key aspects of sustainable development. Bangladesh’s first step towards climate change adaptation was through the preparation of...Download

Brief for Policymakers: The State of Gender Equality and Climate Change in Viet Nam

Year: 2021 Tags: Climate Change, Energy, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Waste management, Water, Vietnam

This brief for policymakers is based on The State of Gender Equality and Climate Change in Viet Nam. It aims to guide government action towards the achievement of climate goals at the country level by...Download

Asia Pacific Issue Brief: SDG16, Human Rights and Environmental Rule of Law, March 2021

Year: 2021 Tags: COVID-19, Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development Goals, Regional

This issue brief deals with Sustainable Development Goal 16, the environmental rule of law, and the link between human rights and a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Access rights...Download

Frequently Asked Questions on Human Rights and Climate Change: Fact Sheet No. 38

Year: 2021 Tags: Climate Change, Environmental Protection, Global

Fact Sheet No. 38 is a part of The Human Rights Fact Sheet series published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva. It deals with...Download

The Cambodia Women's Resilience Index

Year: 2020 Tags: Climate Financing, Energy Efficiency, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Economic empowerment, Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Response, Cambodia

This index builds upon the South Asia Women's Resilience Index. It also builds upon ActionAid's Human Rights-Based Approach and Resilience Framework. Download

Think-piece on Gender and Climate Change in the context of COVID-19

Year: 2020 Tags: Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Response, Regional

COVID-19 is more than a public health crisis. It is a socio-economic crisis and has serious repercussions for the the most vulnerable members of our societies, particularly those who are also burdened...Download

Review of Policy Commitments for Integrating Gender Issues into Climate Change Action and Disaster Risk Reduction in Cambodia

Year: 2019 Tags: Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Mitigation, Disaster Response, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Cambodia

This brief is an output of the EmPower project implemented by UN Women and UN Environment and as such, the review covers the legislation, polices and plans that are targeted by the project.Download

Climate change and resilence in the Asia-Pacific region

Year: 2018 Author Name: Care Tags: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation, Disaster Risk Reduction, Agriculture, Governance, SDGs, Human Rights, Regional

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