Given that women are both vulnerable to climate change in unique ways and should make important contributions to increase the climate resilience of the agrifood sector, it is imperative for governments to design and enact policies to alleviate gendered constraints and build women’s resilience capacities in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. Public policies are crucial for both strengthening women’s resilience to climate change and promoting their leadership in climate change governance. This is because public policies shape the socioeconomic and political environment for the distribution of productive resources and participation in decision-making. First, this policy brief highlights how public policies at different scales can improve women’s resilience to climate change and environmental hazards. Second, it accentuates the means to enable women’s full and effective participation in climate governance at different scales.
This policy brief is based on a strategic review of literature conducted as part of the CGIAR research initiative HER+: Harnessing gender and social equality for resilience in agrifood systems.
Author(s): Kamaldeen Mohammed, Dina Najjar and Elizabeth Bryan
Source: ICARDA
