BRIDGE supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming efforts by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice.
BRIDGE is delighted to announce their new Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Climate Change. Produced in collaboration with policy, donor, and advocacy experts and NGOS based around the globe, it provides a transformative and rights based approach in which to tackle climate change and address gender inequality.
This Cutting Edge Pack hopes to inspire thinking and action. It contains the Overview Report offering a comprehensive gendered analysis of climate change which demystifies many of the complexities in this area and suggests recommendations for researchers, NGOSs and donors as well as policymakers at national and international level. The Supporting Resources Collection provides summaries of key texts and contacts of organisations in this field, whilst a Gender and Development In Brief newsletter contains three articles including two case studies outlining innovative local led solutions.
As if 2011 hadn’t already consisted of enough extreme weather events, from a record drought in Texas to flooding in Bangkok, the night before COP17, the host city for the annual UNFCCC, faced its own extreme weather event. As delegates kissed loved ones goodbye, caught planes and settled into hotel rooms, 700 hundred homes were destroyed and ten people lost their lives in Durban due to flooding. The greatest irony of this is not witnessing climate change at the doorstep of a climate change conference, but that if ever the North doubted the true urgency and magnitude of the situation, the need to ‘Act Now’ , they need only look outside their hotel windows. Indeed if ever there was a time for renewing legally binding agreements, for shifting the focus away from science and moving towards people focused and gender-aware responses, it was at COP17.
Gender justice and ending hunger are closely entwined, interdependent goals. Solving hunger now and in the future involves challenging the current global development model which permits – and is driven by – inequality. Gender analysis shows that women are providers of food as producers, processors, traders, cooks and servers. However, despite their vast contribution, women are still often excluded or have limited access to resources, credit, information and markets, greatly limiting their productivity and food security. For example, many women in developing countries are unable to own or control land in their own right, and have less access to resources such as seeds. To add to this, unequal gender roles, responsibilities and workloads often leave women exhausted and malnourished.
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