Evidence on Gender, Equity, and Justice for Effective Adaptation

The IPCC Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability's 6th Assessment Report (WGII report) includes more information on gender, equity, and justice than any previous IPCC reports. It reflects the emergence of large quantities of scientific literature that point to the importance of addressing gender issues and centre the principles of equity and justice in climate change adaptation efforts. However, these references are woven throughout more than 3,000 pages of text in the WGII report, which may make it difficult for policy-makers, practitioners, advocates, and educators to distill the key messages and apply them in their work.  

Working with an advisory group of African gender and climate change experts and in collaboration with IPCC authors, this project synthesizes the relevant findings on gender, equity, and justice from the WGII report, translates them into accessible language, and packages them for different audiences. It focuses on contextualizing the findings for the context of sub-Saharan Africa. The aim is to provide resources that can be easily used to make the case for gender-responsive and inclusive adaptation. 

The project was implemented with the support of AdaptAction, a Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group program, with cofinancing from the NAP Global Network.