Provides simple tools and practical advice on how to take a gender-sensitive approach to planning and implementing adaptation projects and programmes regardless of context. A useful reference for any development practitioner or policymaker working in this field. Gender mainstreaming in Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) projects supports the vigorous and sustained participation of both women and men in all project aspects because successful projects require the participation, knowledge, and skills of all community members.

Although women and girls in developing countries disproportionately experience the negative impacts of climate change, climate finance funds do not meaningfully integrate gender dimensions into their policies or programmes. This research report on gender in global finance mechanisms examines the integration of gender issues into the policies and investments of two climate funds and two non-climate funds, identifying practices that could ‘work for women’ in climate change financing.

This paper is a policy guideline on gender mainstreaming which presents practical advice on how to institutionalise gender-sensitive risk assessments, implement gender-sensitive early warning systems, and use gender-sensitive indicators to monitor gender mainstreaming progress. It presents a summary of global-level events that highlight mainstreaming gender in disaster risk reduction, and notes that advocacy and awareness-raising have contributed to the increased understanding of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and gender as cross-cutting matters.

This policy brief, published in time for International Women’s Day 2014, argues that hazards affect men and women, and boys and girls, differently and that attention needs to be paid to distinct vulnerabilities and capacities to face and recover from loss and damage caused by disasters. It argues that tackling gender inequality is a key component of reducing disaster risks and a cross-cutting issue of the Hyogo Framework for Action.