Section outline
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Adaptation policies: through a gender lens
Most developing countries have drawn up a set of policies to address climate change and adaptation needs and submitted National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) to the UNFCCC. They provide the backdrop in which adaptation practitioners operate and are an indication of the institutional support gender-sensitive adaptation projects can have. How gender-responsive are such policies?
Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg, 2013 “How gender-sensitive are the National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) of Sub- Saharan African countries? A gender-scan of 31 NAPAs” (http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/iobwpaper/2013002.htm)
Beyond NAPAs and NAPs countries have devised their own policies. Below are two examples; a review of “Bangladesh Climate Change Strategies and Action Plan” (2009) from a gender perspective and a gender review of South Africa’s “National Climate Change Response Policy”.
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Compiled by GenderCC Southern Africa (GenderCCSA) in partnership with Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) and Gender & Energy Network of South Africa (Gensa)
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A review of Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy Action Plan (2009) by Sharmind Neelormi